Chel Hamilton 0:00

Life feeling chaotic and out of control. This visualization gives you a powerful tool to find your calm center fast, no matter what's swirling in the world around you.

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This is the Meditation Minis podcast with your host, Hypnotist Shell Hamilton.

Chel Hamilton 0:17

And as you take those few deep breaths, giving yourself permission in your mind to spend a few moments to relax, to follow along with the sound of my voice. I'd like you to imagine yourself going to the Great Plains, some big open, grassy space. And if you've never been someplace like Kansas or Texas, then just imagine it from the movies. And as you're standing there, maybe you're watching just waves of grass blow back and forth in the breeze, or maybe it's a field of corn or wheat. You may become aware now if you hadn't noticed already, the storm clouds beginning to roll in from the distance. Those big, thunderous clouds, a wall of them just moving in. And as the storm begins to move around you, you realize that even though you're in the middle of this field, you are in the middle of a hurricane. And everything is whipping around you faster and faster. And you may even find yourself getting very anxious and nervous and scared and overwhelmed by everything going on, and all of the thoughts in your mind whirling and whipping around too as this hurricane begins to go on on the inside and the outside. And just as you think you can hardly stand another moment of it now, I'd like you to take a deep breath and relax and remember that there is an eye of the hurricane. And now with each and every breath, I'd like you to begin to imagine what it would be like, feel like, look like for you to be the calm in the storm. With each and every breath, just allowing that calm to move out a little further from you. Maybe it's three feet, maybe it's three hundred feet, and all around you you can see the storm and its whipping and its frenzy. But as you stand and breathe and be, you breathe in calm and exhale serenity. And you might even imagine yourself looking up above you, and and you see the blue sky and the fluffy little clouds. Because you are the calm in the storm, and the harder the storm tries to whip around you, the more frenzied it gets, the more upset or angry people are in your life, the more activity that's going on, the more activity, the more frenzy, the calmer you can become. And now imagine yourself in a situation, maybe earlier today, that that got you quite anxious. Maybe it was last week. As you imagine yourself in that situation, imagine yourself just right there, stopping, taking a deep breath, and being the eye in the storm. As you breathe in, calm and exhale serenity. And see and feel yourself quickly, easily, and with very little effort at all, being calm, calming yourself down more and more. Just breathe and be as you imagine that blue sky above you, and the the harder the storm tries to whip around you in its frenzy, the calmer you become, and you think, isn't that interesting that that was bothering me earlier? And now it becomes more and more difficult for me to remember what that feels like. But of course, if you want to, you can step out of the eye and into the storm, and you can do that now if you choose, just to remind yourself how that feels for you, but then stop, take a deep breath and step back into the calm as you breathe and be the eye of the storm. Calm, peaceful, serenity. Preparing yourself now to come up out of this meditative state, and we're gonna do that.