The Rainbow Path Meditation
perfect way to start your day
I was gifted a version of this meditation by a spiritual grandmother when I was in a tight spot and looking for my own ticket out. I would use this meditation while walking with the ladies of the night and their overlords on my way to work. I would envisage it on the train. I would utilize it while sitting in the parking lot at 4am, 2am, waiting for the kitchen to open, or close. I would use it when laying my head down for sleep on yet another couch, wondering where I would sleep tomorrow night.
This is the meditation that took me from standing on a street corner in the FiDi of SF negotiating my future, to the comfortable, secure, loving, supportive life I am living today. Meditation alone won’t get you there, but this one helped me significantly to connect in to myself, and to feel the next right step, no matter what it was—even if that step seemed illogical. Some of the craziest side quests helped propel me the farthest into the life of my dreams.
Let me know how it all goes for you…
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Well, the subject of being walking crystals has come up in conversation quite a bit with my clients this week. So I thought I would share a meditation that was gifted to me by one of my spiritual grandmothers when I was in a moment of life that was very challenging. I was at a crossroads and I didn't really know what the future held or what direction to head in.
So she gifted me this meditation and I keep talking about how, you know, we have all these crystalline structures in our body, whether it's the iron in our blood or the calcium in our bones or the rocks rolling around in our head. And so we also have consciousness and the ability to, in essence, charge this human crystal body that we have whenever we want with our thoughts alone. But it can be very helpful to have a guide.
So take a few deep breaths as deep as they'll go. Some of us can't breathe very deeply. So even if that means just reaching all the way in to your clavicles, filling up our shoulders with breath. Some others of us have the ability to reach deep into our lungs and we can reach all the way down with our breath, not just into our bellies, but into those rib bones in our backs down deep into our kidneys.
Take a deep breath. However deep it will reach and maybe just hold it for a few seconds on the top. And then release. We can do that a few times.
And wherever you are, once you really feel settled and comfortable, maybe you're standing and you can feel your feet as they sink into the ground, maybe you're seated and you feel those sitz bones sink just a little bit deeper into the surface they are connected to.
When on that next breath, close your eyes or shift your gaze inward as much as you feel comfortable. When as you turn your gaze inward, you notice there's a star shining directly over your head.
And as you focus on that star, you notice that it begins to shine brighter and brighter until it is glowing as bright as the sun. And on that next breath, that star starts to pour all of its liquid golden light down into your crown chakra, into the top of your head.
And all of that liquid golden light begins to fill your body. You feel it as it fills up your toes and the arches of your feet. The liquid light fills up through your ankles and your shin bones. Up through your calves and your knees. The liquid golden light floods up through your hamstrings and your quads.
Up and up and up the liquid golden light fills your being up through your hips and your booty. Up into your abdomen, your pelvis. And look at that as you look down at your body, you notice that as that liquid golden light fills your body, it has turned on the root chakra that is now glowing a deep radiant red.
And as that waterline of liquid golden light flowing from your own personal star down through the crown of your head pouring into your feet, into your ankles, into your thighs and your calves and your knees and your pelvis, into the trunk of your body. Oh, now your second chakra is a light, rich amber glowing light has been activated.
And with your next breath, that golden light has filled your ribcage and your lungs. And it has activated that bright glowing sun that is your own solar plexus chakra, your own experience of personal power.
Soon, the waterline is filling up and up and up over your heart in through your shoulders and it's flowing down, down through your arms out through your fingertips. And you feel your heart center get activated. A deep emerald light begins to shine from your heart center.
Your next breath has that liquid golden light filling up your being, filling up your throat. You can feel it rising in to your jaw up through your cheeks and your sinuses cresting over your pineal gland, filling up your head, cavity, your skull, your brain and washing through your entire being.
Now that star that hangs just overhead and who is filling your being with liquid golden light has your entire being lit up and overflowing with that beautiful golden light. And as you look down at your body, you see your throat chakra, a gorgeous blue, a light.
The indigo blue of your third eye is activated and the violet flame of your crown chakra is illuminated. You look down at your entire being and it's almost as if all of the chakras on your body are lit up like traffic lights beaming out onto the path in front of you and in your mind's eye, you see your light body activated, a light with all these different brilliant lights shining down onto your yellow brick road, the golden path ahead of you and in your mind's eye you see your feet on that path and first your right foot steps out in front, takes the first step and then the left and then the right and then the left.
And you know that you are on the path that is just right for you and that all of your sacred light, your sacred magic, your beingness is a glow and you are attracting everything that is meant for you in this lifetime, every perfect step in alignment with your soul's highest desire, your true calling, the contract you signed in for in this lifetime, it's all meant for you, it's all coming to you and every step you take is exactly the right step in alignment with your dharma, with your desire, with your true calling in this lifetime.
Just sit and bask in the glow of yourself in right alignment, activated, a glow, basking in your true nature, your bowl of light filled.
And with your next breath, start to come back into the room that you are in. Start to wiggle your fingers and your toes. Start to again feel your feet on the ground or your sitz bones on the seat.
And before you turn your gaze outward, know that you are exactly where you are meant to be. And come back into the room, into your waking life and know that you can return to this meditation whenever you need it, whenever you need it, it's here for you.
You are a walking crystal, a light in this world, activated, charged, fully in line with your dharma path. No matter what you are doing or where you are at, you are doing the will that you were sent here for, you are helping to elevate humanity and all of life on this planet. And that is a very good thing to steal a phrase from a woman I love so dearly.
