Okay, ya’ll. I often get asked for stuff like this…but I rarely have the time to edit it. So here it is completely un-spellchecked. This is just what I use to keep me from forgetting what I am doing in a moment of panic. (Yes, even twelve friendly people in room can make me panic when it comes to leading new-to-us rites and rituals. It’s a risky thing, this new kind of liturgy stuff! You can really fall on your face, often and spectacularly!) Anywho, here is it.

Guided Meditation for Advent
While lighting a three wick candle or three candles:

I bind unto this place today the strong cords of the trinity, by invocation of the same the three in one and one in three. Holy Space for Holy People.

Guided Meditation:

Find your comfortable seat. Cross legged, or upright with knees comfortably apart, whatever feels supported to you.

Align your spine so that the vertebrae are stacked one on top of the other. We tend to sit with our necks and chins thrust forward so try to balance your head in alignment with your neck, so that it’s floating like a little balloon on top of your head. You might be able to feel a lift of energy like you are connecting heavenwards and a corresponding grounding energy through the bottom of you spin connecting you earthwards. Think about your shoulders and make sure they are not up around your ears. Roll them gently down and back and think about your shoulder blades sliding down towards the center of your back. This creates more space for your neck to rest easy.

Put your hands in a comfortable position. I like an upward open palm position because it symbolizes an openness, a readiness to receive. You can also place your hands at a prayer position centered in front of your heart. Or you can make a mudra with your thumb and pointer finger which is believed to create a circuit of energy in your body.

Five Senses

Soften your eyes, let them roll loose in your sockets If you are scrunching the skin between your eyes at the top of your nose, think of widening the space between your eyes and letting your nose drop down.

Soften your nose…the outside of the nose, think of letting your nostrils gentle relax and widen. Breath evenly through your nose, not your deepest breath, but slightly less shallow than your regular breathing.

Soften your ears. Think of the outside edge of your ear sort of curling out and sinking down. Soften the inside of your ears, visualize your listening space in you ears widening slightly.

Soften your mouth. Swallow to relax your tongue and throat. Let you tongue rest loosely behind your teeth, don’t press on your teeth or the roof of your mouth. Think of it as holding a juicy little plum in the center of your mouth and you don’t want to crush it.

Now become aware of your skin…of the air and temperature on your skin. Concentrate gentle on the sensations of this outer layer of perception, the skin of your body.

Now deepen your breath a bit, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. You can do what’s called the oujayee breath which is a soft “ha” sound on the exhale. If you don’t like breathing through your nose or your nose in clogged you can also do the oujahee breath on the inhale which has a soft “ah” sound.

You can imagine the breath like a swirl of light entering on the inhale and swirling through your body. If you have an area of your body that feels tight, visualize sending that breath, that light to the tight spot in your body.

On the exhale, you can visualize smoke…or pain….or negative energy exiting your body and dissipating into the atmosphere.

Ten focuses breathes, welcoming the light. Then continue as I read.

What came into existence was Life,
And the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
And the darkness could not put it out.
———————————Read How Many Miles to Bethlehem—————————
The people who lived in darkness have seen a great light,
and we have beheld it’s glory,
glory that only comes from God,
generous from the inside out,
true from start to finish,
full of grace, full of truth.

Go in Peace. Namaste.