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Close your eyes, and begin to tune out the outside world…Allow your body to settle down…and release the tensions of the day. You can use your breath to gently enter into your body, letting go of any tightness, or discomfort you may be feeling…Softening the body…Letting go…Remember, you have a body but you are not your body only. Feel yourself surrendering to your inner Self and allow your consciousness to just float around through the inner experience that follows.

Take some time now to check out your emotions. See if any re rocking around in your body anywhere. If so, just breathe your breath into these emotions until they begin to quiet…Becoming still like a lake with no ripples…Allow your emotions to settle down…A lake with no ripples can perfectly reflect the sky, just as quietened emotions can perfectly reflect your truth…Take a few balanced breaths and feel your emotions beginning to release you, becoming open and receptive to whatever spirit wants to bring forth during this experience…And remember, you have emotions, but you are not your emotions…your emotions come and go.

Now, take a little time to clear your mind…See if you have any ideas or expectations floating around in your brain…If so, feel them beginning to release, leaving your mind free and clear as a beautiful blue and cloudless sky… Feel yourself leaving this concrete reality for awhile, as though you are drifting into space…Just relax…and feel yourself deepening…a little more…and a little more…(longer pause)

Now, from a deep place within your mind, envision yourself dressed as you are today sitting by yourself on a sofa in an empty room. You are quietly reflectin back over your life…all those experiences, some of them painful, that you've been through…Just allow some of these events to surface s you sit here alone on the sofa…

The times you were terrified…lost…or alone…Or times when you've lost someone dear through separation, or death…Just let yourself be with these memories…(longer pause)

Now, reflect on that part of you who just couldn't handle some of these situations–who had to go underground and be private about how you felt…Take some time to reflect on the whole quality of your childhood…(longer pause).

As you sit in deep reflection, you look across the room and notice a trapdoor in the floor that you'd not seen before. It is closed. Note what the door looks like…As you look into it, you begin to hear something stirring underneath the door…And you get up and walk toward the door…Notice what you are feeling…As you go forward, you decide to put on a violet cloak that is hanging on a hook, and to light a candle to take with you…These are gifts from your Higher Self…Take some time now to put on the cloak, and to light the candle…Stay very close to your feelings as you do this … (longer pause).

Now, open the trap door and peer in … Notice what happens … and allow the imagery to unfold … (longer pause).

(Note: As the door is opening, yo might put on, or have someone else put on, some music without words that swells with a heartfelt melody. This enhances the experience, but is not essential.)

Now, see your shadow as plainly as you can … (longer pause). And remember, you are in charge of this experience: you can bring your shadow up into the room, or you can go down into the cellar where it lives … If you are willing, encourage your shadow to reveal itself more fully … (longer pause). See how it's shaped … or dressed … it's stance … or attitude … (longer pause). Now, call it by name!

Have your shadow speak to you if it will, and tell you what it needs … Attend now to what it says or shows you … (longer pause). See if a dialogue begins between you and it; just allow this to unfold spontaneously. Perhaps you need to say something to your shadow … Allow the two of you to relate … and stay very close to your feelings as the images appear … (Take plenty of time here.)

Gradually, now, the images begin to fade in a mellow whitish-grey light … Allow the scene to fade … and as the shadow is dissipating, love it as much as you can! Feel this love in your heart–as much as you can muster … (longer pause) … and thank your shadow graciously for whatever it did or didn't do with you just now … for just being who it is … Tell your shadow goodbye … (longer pause).

Take some time now to appreciate your shadow self … as much as you possibly can … as you begin removing your violet cloak, taking some time to put the cloak away and blow out the candle, putting it back where you found it … (longer pause). Now, you are back on the sofa in the empty room, dressed as your current self, alone once more … Just remain in quiet reflection for awhile … (longer pause).

Now, slowly allow your mind to settle back into this reality, and once again become aware of your surroundings … Take your time coming back here … Now feel yourself fully back in your body. (Here, the guide's voice becomes stronger, more directive.) Feel your body touching your seat. Still retaining all that happened on the inner plane, feel yourself being back here fully. Make this feeling real …

You might want to move around just a little, so you will be in touch with your body as it awakens from this experience.

If you have not already read about how to process your imagery, it would be good to do that now.

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