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Staying at my mum's this week I came across a visualisation in a book by Betty Shine (now deceased English medium & healer) It is very simple. Basically you imagine yourself on a cliff top on a warm summer's evening. You walk down 20 steps to the beach & find a sun-warmed rock at the beach. As you watch the sun sets over the sea. You let-go of physical tensions & mental worries, relax & enjoy the view and affirm to yourself that life will change for the better as the sun rises again in the morning.

Try it every night. I'm going to! Let me know how you get on with it.

That sounds lovely. I will try it tonight.
I also learned a visualization for taking that first step out of body that has worked for me: Imagine descending a spiral staircase (mine is cool and stone) until you reach a gate or door at the bottom. Open the door and step through. Let me know where you get to! Trishh

I could feel that sun warmed rock warming me to my core. What a lovely visualization.

Yes me too. I have a particular love of beaches & it took my right back to sitting on a warm rock on the Northern Irish coast a few weeks ago feeling soo contented & happy.

The spiral staircase sounds interesting Trishh. I guess downwards winds you into your subconscious self. Ever taken the stairs up to see your Higher Self?

Y'all visualize a lot better than me. I have a spiral staircase in my courtyard that leads to my stargazing deck, so I keep going up that. I end up there, staring at the beach. <img src="/images/graemlins/fish.gif" alt="" /> Or the marsh, depending on the direction I am looking. Maybe I am seeking my Higher Self. I think I am challenged when it comes to visualizing. Unless my mind starts to wander...then I end up in cool places! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

(First thing I've got to ask Lauren... a sun-warmed rock on the Northern Irish coast in early April???? I didn't know you could find one there that early in the spring! Sounds like the tropics! Who knew?)
I think I would be a sucker for the hot rock therapy they offer at spas these days... nothing says happiness and relaxation quite like a deeply warm rock. I'm with you girls!
You know, I haven't gone up that spiral staircase... I will have to do that and see what await me there...
I love the sound of a star gazing rooftop. We unfortunately live so close to the glitz of Niagara Falls that it is bright all the time. I miss the northern lights we used to see each fall out in the country - oh and the meteor showers each August. Wish on a star for me tonight, will you?
Trishh

Oh Firefly, who needs to visualise when you have views like yours?

Trishh I know it sounds unlikely but the sun really did shine beautifully in Northern Ireland & we had the most fabulous day at the beach...fully clothed mind you! We also drove through sleet, hailstones & pouring rain, but somehow whenever we got out of the car the sun shone <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Poor you having Niagara Falls on the doorstep <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I have loved reading this thread. I am a nature lover from way back and being a Piscean, I find great peace in meditating around water, especially the sea. it has been my comfort in painful times, and my joy in happier ones. I become almost entranced by watching its constant movement and how it laps against rocks and cascades in a burst of white froth, like it is reaching for the sky.

I sit and watch the gulls and pelicans in flight and feel my own spirit rising with them. It is like they are 'me' and I can explore those heights with them.

I watch the birds in the trees and 'whistle' to them and they swoop donw to look at me.

Oh, Nature is so beautiful! In Nature, I see the face of the Creator.

Water is a classic symbol of re-birth.... look at baptism... heck, look at what we float in, in our mothers' wombs...!
This is why people are drawn to oceans and seas, and marvel in wonder at both the calm tranquil placid mirror-like stillness, and the same, possibly just hours later, transformed into a raging, gnashing thunderous, majestic breath-taking turbulent demonstration of the Power of Mother Nature going Hormonal - !

Children are drawn to water in all its' forms... icicles, snowflakes, big muddy puddles....

Water spawned Life, and we cannot live without it.

Cheers!

I know, I know... it's tough having one of the seven wonders of the world just down the street... ok, I'm gently shamed into quitting my griping!!
I agree with everyone who's posted here about the magic of water and am truly blessed to see a huge example of it daily. It actually hurts the head to contemplate the amount of water that goes over the Falls in a second, minute, hour, day... If you ever get the chance to visit Niagara Falls, make sure you come to the Canadian side and stand alongside the wall right at the edge of the Horseshoe Falls. It is hypnotic and terrifying and beautiful all at once. I can't stand there long as it is seductively inviting to just jump right in...it looks so smooth and cool!
Patience, I love watching seabird too, especially sandpipers and pelicans. When I go south, I make sure I stay somewhere where I can hit the beach in the early mornings to walk in the surf and just watch the birds do their thing. If I had to chose between mountains and ocean, I'd pick ocean every time. Lucky you!