Article by Stefanie Johnson

There are magical places that exist within each one of us, inside our minds, hearts, and souls. By visiting these places, we can tap into the infinite and bring peace and abundance into our lives.

 

Each journey will be unique, as we are unique, so you may want to have a notebook and pen nearby to record your experience afterward. You may choose to have another person read the meditation to you so you may experience it more fully.      

 

Find a comfortable place, close your eyes, open your mind, and prepare yourself to travel within.

 

Let’s travel together on a beautiful day to visit a windy mountain meadow. The simple, pretty landscape and refreshing breeze will leave you with a deep sense of serenity. 

 

You’re trekking up a grassy hill, and the sun is shining.  The sky is clear and blue, with only a couple of fluffy clouds drifting across the sky like sailboats.

 

When you reach the top, an entire meadow stretches out in front of you.  The grass is long and richly green, and there are many sweet-smelling patches of wildflowers and clover dotting the meadow. There are no trees, and no manmade structures of any kind … save for a swing set out in the very middle of the field, the seat being pushed to and fro by the wind.

 

There is something so compelling about the emptiness, the openness of this place.  It almost seems as though it was waiting for you to come here, that the swing was put here just on the off chance that you would sit on it, and spend a little time enjoying the day.

 

You walk over to the swing and sit on it, holding the chains in your hands and pushing off from the ground.

 

The wind blows past you, through your hair, fingering the grass until it blows in waves like a green sea, setting little blossoms from the wildflowers dancing.  Tiny dandelion seed pods with their delicate silver umbrellas circle too, the sun glinting off of them until they seem to sparkle.

 

You swing harder, and the world becomes a blur of green and blue. You remember what it was like to be a child, when everything seemed to be magical, when everything you learned about the world was a wonderful discovery.

 

Yet, there are still many things out in the world you haven’t seen yet, haven’t experienced … that the world can still be seen with a child-like wonder.  There is so much left for you out there.

 

Imagine one thing, just one thing, you really want to try.  What is it?  Why does it draw you so strongly?  If you did it, how would it change your life?

 

You launch yourself off of the swing and land in the soft grass with a laugh … and then lay there on your back looking up at the sky.

 

You feel wonderful, light, and free.  You look at the puffy clouds in the sky and see patterns emerging. (What patterns do you see? How do they make you feel?)

 

A pair of curious, brilliant butterflies hover around you, and one lands on your hand as you bask in the sun.  Its little legs tickle you, and you laugh again.  The meadow is full of the sound of the wind, and your laughter.

 

This place is yours and yours alone.  Return here whenever you have forgotten how to be carefree, how to experience life as if for the first time … and you will remember.

 

We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.

-Anon

 

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”

-Jean Piaget

 

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