Tiny Angels Meditation (part 1)

I learned this when I was in college. It’s a great way to relax or meditate.

Find a comfortable chair and sit upright in a relaxed position, uncross your legs, place your feet flat on the floor, and let your arms rest on the arms of the chair or in your lap.

Take a slow, deep breath. Then another, allowing your eyelids to close.

Take a couple more slow breaths and imagine a couple dozen tiny angels coming from everywhere around you. They all have a warm, comforting glow. A few of the angels float over to your left hand and begin to pull at the tip of your pinkie finger. In your imagination, the tip of the finger becomes like a cork that they slowly pull away from the tip of your finger. An awful looking, gray fluid begins oozing out of your finger. The angels smile and giggle as they begin removing the cork-like tip of the next finger.

Slowly, the angels move to the middle finger. [Take a deep breath.] Then it’s to the first finger. Pause. Now the thumb. After each cork tip is removed, the ugly, gray substance oozes out and you can feel all negativity and darkness flowing out of your body through the fingers on your left hand.

Take your time. There is no reason to hurry.

Imagine now that the tiny angels are removing the cork-like tip of the pinkie finger on your right hand. Allow them to spend a bit of time on each finger. Notice that they are happy and smiling; sometimes laughing and giggling, always in a state of love. They move to the ring finger, removing the tip. You notice that the gross fluid is flowing from these two fingers. You also notice your emotions are turning more peaceful. Now it’s the middle finger, and now the first finger—and finally the thumb. Choose to take your time, moving your mind’s eye leisurely from one finger to the next.

Some of the other angels have grouped themselves at your feet and they begin to remove the tips of the toes of your left foot, beginning with the small toe of one foot and slowly moving to each separate toe. Then one by one, they remove the tips of the toes of your right foot. The disgusting fluid continues oozing its way out of your body and you begin to feel more relaxed.

Take a deep breath.

Now imagine that the top of your head is like the lid of a cookie jar. Another set of angels has moved to the top of your skull and has opened “the lid” from your head. Now the nasty fluid flows from your fingers and toes at a quickened pace. After a short time your body is only a shell.

[continued tomorrow]