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Visualize the five elements and guardian animals to cultivate deep healing, protection, and inner power.

Secular

Qi Gong

Spiritual

Movement

Energy

Secular Mindfulness

English

Heal and expand your consciousness in this ancient Qi Gong visualization that takes you through the Five Elements and the Five guardian animals. You can do this at the start of your day to energize and revitalize or at the end your day to cleanse and clear your energy body. This practice can be done standing, seated, or lying down, depending on what feels best for you.

Morning Meditation For Power And Healing (Five Elements)

Welcome to this five element healing and protection exercise. This is a simple yet powerful visualization that has been used since ancient times for protection and healing. You can practice this seated, standing or lying down. If you are seated or standing, let your feet come hips distance apart and let all of your toes connect with the earth. Allow your arms to rest by the sides of your body. If you are seated or lying down, feel free to use any cushions, pillows or other forms of support to ensure you feel comfortable and supported. You may wish to half or fully close your eyes if that feels good for you. If you prefer to keep your eyes open, allow a soft gaze but draw your awareness inwards. Start by arriving in your body. Begin to notice any areas of tension and relaxation. Starting at the crown of your head, soften your scalp, your forehead, your eyebrows, your eyes, your cheeks, your nose, your ears and your lips. Relax your jaw and soften around the back of your neck, your shoulders and through your chest, down your arms, through your elbows, forearms, wrists, into your palms and your fingers. Continue along your upper back through your rib cage, softening into your abdomen and then bring some breath into your pelvis. Release the muscles of your lower back, your hips, your buttocks and your groin. Soften and relax your legs, your thighs, your knees, ankles and your feet. Now guide your awareness inwards to the inner landscape of you. Guide this awareness downwards to the rainbow arches of your feet, landing just behind the balls of your feet, kidney 1, bubbling spring. Visualise these points, one each under the arches of your feet, like two points of a portals gradually opening. From the opening of these portals, feel an invitation to root down towards the core of the earth. Let your roots grow down and as they move deeper, let your roots spread, grow and deepen, becoming stronger and thicker. Eventually, let your roots find a place to spread out and to latch on. As you do so, begin to feel the earth, know the earth, trust the earth. This is your connection to the yin, to the earth, your feeling of support and grounding. With your next inhale, breathe in from the earth, through your roots, through the soles of your feet, up through your legs, into your lower abdomen, into the space three fingers below your navel. This is the dantian, your elixir field, the centre of your power and energy. In the centre of your abdomen, visualise a pearl, as small and as compact as an elixir, yet as vast and expandable as an unending field. Inhaling from the earth, through your roots, through your legs, into this pearl, allow your pearl to expand slightly. Exhaling, let the qi move back down, through your legs, back through the portals of your feet, through your roots, returning to the earth. Continue like this for the next five breaths, allowing your pearl to expand a little more each time. Now, breathe once into the pearl in your dantian, elixir field, and visualise a green mist. Breathe in this green mist and fill your liver with this green mist. As you do so, let the corners of your mouth softly curl in a gentle smile. Let this green mist expand from your liver, from the right side of your body, and let this green mist spread out through to the left side of your body. Through the horizon, let this green mist transform into a forest, a lush, leafy, dense forest that extends far and wide. At the foot of this forest, see a giant green dragon, the guardian animal of your wood element. Watch the dragon move its head, its body, its tail. Watch the dragon start to rise, spreading its wings, rising up, up, up, to fly above the trees of this forest far, far into the horizon. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand to the left through the forest with the green dragon. Now, breathe in into the pearl in your dantian, your elixir field, and visualise a white mist. Breathe in this white mist through your nostrils and fill your lungs with this white mist. Smile in this white mist and let this white mist move out from your lungs to the right side of your body. Fill the horizon to your right with this white mist. Now, let this white mist transform into a vast range of iron ore mountains as far and wide and as high as you can see the right horizon all, all around you. And there, on the pinnacle of one of these iron ore mountains, see the guardian animal of your metal element, the giant white tiger. See the white tiger. Watch the white tiger crouch and rise and move its head and its tail. Watch the giant white tiger leap from mountain peak to peak until the giant white tiger disappears far, far into the horizon to your right-hand side. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand to the right through the iron ore mountains with the giant white tiger. Now, breathe in to the pearl in your elixir field and visualise a red mist. Breathe in this red mist. Breathe this red mist through your nostrils and fill your heart with this red mist. Smile in this red mist and let it fill your heart. Now, let this red mist spread in front of you. Let it fill the horizon in front of you. And let this red mist transform into a wall of fire, a protective fire as far and as wide and as high as you can imagine, filling the horizon in front of you. In front of you, dancing in the flames, see the guardian animal of your fire element, the giant red vermilion bird. See the vermilion bird. Watch it dancing in the flames. See its wings, its tail, its head. And watch the red vermilion bird fly into the horizon in front of you through the flames far, far into the horizon. Let your energy field and consciousness expand in front of you through the flames with the red vermilion bird. Now, breathe once into the pearl in your elixir field and see a blue-black mist. Breathe in this blue-black mist through your nostrils and fill your kidneys with this blue-black mist. Smile in this blue-black mist. Fill your kidneys and let this blue-black mist expand behind you. Fill the horizon behind you with this blue-black mist and let this blue-black mist unfurl into an ocean. An ocean as far and as wide and as deep as you can imagine, filling the horizon behind you. See the surface of the horizon, the ocean sparkling in the sun. See the waves of the ocean gently lapping and there, gliding in the waves, see the giant black tortoise, your guardian animal of your water element. See the tortoise's protective shell and watch the tortoise gliding through the waves far, far into the horizon behind you. Let your energy field and your consciousness expand behind you through the waves, through the ocean, with the black tortoise. Let your energy field expand in front of you through the fire with the red vermilion bird. Let your energy field expand to the right of you through the iron ore mountains with the white tiger. Let your energy field expand to the left of you through the lush green forest with the green dragon. Let your energy field expand in all four directions. Now, breathe once into the pearl in your elixir field and now see a golden yellow mist. Breathe in this golden yellow mist through your nostrils and fill your stomach and spleen with this golden yellow mist. Smile it in. Let this golden yellow mist rise from your stomach and spleen and begin to surround your whole body. Surround your entire body with a sphere of golden yellow mist and as this mist surrounds you, let it expand and expand and expand and as far as possible in all directions, above and below, let this gigantic sphere of gold and yellow mist transform into an earth, planet earth upon the earth, embracing and encompassing the other four elements and there, flying around this earth, see the golden yellow sacred dragon horse, the qi ling, the guardian animal of your earth element. See the horn on its head, see its dragon head and its horse body. See the dragon horse leap around the earth, guarding over the other four elements. Let your energy field expand in all directions, below, above, behind, in front, to your right, to your left. Now, become aware of any sensations of expansion. Become aware of your roots that are your connection to the earth. Draw your awareness up to the crown of your head, to the point at the crown of your head, bai hui, a hundred meetings. There, at the crown of your head, visualize a gateway opening and let your consciousness expand up through this gateway into the heavens, through the sky, through the blue, through the heavens, into the realm of the stars. See Polaris, the North Star, shining brightly and the constellation of the Big Dipper. Imagine the energy of these two meeting like a great beam of white light. Let this white light move down from the realm of the stars, moving down like a great pillar of white light. Let it move down, through the blue of the sky, down, down through the crown of your head, all the way down into your body, through the three curves of your spine, through your tailbone, down into the earth. Let this giant beam of white light move down through your arms, trickling down along your fingertips, through your body, through your hips, down through your legs, all the way down, back through your roots into the earth. A great powerful beam of white light, moving through all of your body, cleansing and enlivening every single bone, muscle, fiber, cell, every vibration, thought, feeling, sensation. Let this powerful beam of white light, like a great giant waterfall, let this powerful energy from the heavens cleanse you. Now condense this powerful energy from the heavens into your palm. Mix it with the energy you have received from the earth. Place the center of your palms, one on top of the other, over your elixir field. Gently condense the yin energy of the earth with the yang energy of the heavens. Condense yin yang into you. Breathe into the pearl, back into your center. And breathe out and allow these energies to mix and condense within you. Now breathe into your pearl and say to yourself three times, I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. I am supported. I am loved. I am whole. Gently bring your palms together and rub them, creating heat and warmth between them. When your palms feel warm enough, gently place your palms over your eyes. Breathe the nourishing qi in through your palms into your eyes. When you feel ready, gradually open your eyes behind your palms. Take that in and gently brush your hands down your face, your body, washing your body with the qi that you've gathered from this five element healing and protection exercise. Bring this energy and healing with you into the rest of your day.