Co-creative Meditation: Heart Medicine with the Wood Snake
The current year of the wood snake carries potent gifts of transformation. The snake as a master teacher invites us to work with the situations where love does not happen automatically. By alchemising hardship and pain, we create powers of embodied love for the collective good.
Imagine a tree with a hole before you. Curious, you peer inside the hole and you find yourself looking into the eyes of a snake. You feel the snake will not harm you and you continue looking into its eyes, sensing its presence.
You then feel the snake telepathically communicating with you. It says: ‘I was once a great dragon. To enter this world, I had to lose my wings, give up my fire breath and shrink into a small body. That is the price I paid in order to learn to eat my own poison.’
As you listen to the snake’s story, you feel intense compassion and respect for the snake. You realise the snake has initiated a process of transformation within you. You then see all the pain and suffering you have experienced in life inside a purple cloud. The purple cloud moves towards you and like the snake, you feel the urge to learn the power of transmutation.
A drop from the purple cloud lands on your tongue. As you swallow it, your eyes burst with tears and the drop goes straight to your heart. Incredibly, you discover that each drop of poison you swallow is removing the barriers within you to love. Take a moment to sense how any resistance to love within you is melting away.
Feel how the difficult experiences in life, which had caused you to build armouring, fears and judgments of yourself and others, are now being transmuted. You then see yourself holding hands in a large circle with people from different cultures all around the world. Standing between and around us are the beings of the parallel worlds who are supporting us.
As we join together, we become aware of the heart force surging from humanity. With this heart force anchoring us in Gaia’s universe of love, we are able to meet all challenges with joy, creativity and inspired action.
Adapted from the meditation originally created by Ying Li for LifeNet www.lifenet.si
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