Waterfall Meditation by Chapman

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The " waterfall " is the method I use to bring students into imaginary

field trips to help them relax deeply to get to an alpha state of

awareness, calmness, and receptivity. It is the transporter device and

so much more. It is a multisensory representation of the chi,

universal energy. Anyone, anytime can use the waterfall energy to help

calm and center oneself in times of stress, to help heal themselves,

or to help heal others in any/all ways. What follows is a script I

have created and have used often with great success. It usually

follows a fairly lengthy relaxation including deep breathing and

progressive relaxation (tightening and releasing different muscle

groups from the feet up to the head).

See yourself inside a waterfall of white light. Imagine this

waterfall flowing down over the top of your head and down over your

body, taking out any stress you may be holding. See the beautiful

crystal white light filling you and flowing into you, bringing you

peace and relaxation. This waterfall is the waterfall of universal

energy. Feel it pouring in through the top of your head and filling

you with universal love and joy.

Imagine this white light energy now going directly to any parts of

your body that need healing. Feel it fixing your body, aligning all

the cells so they work perfectly. If you have allergies or cold

symptoms, send the energy to your head and your lungs and feel it healing

you. Send the energy to any part of you that needs adjusting and

healing and feel it healing your physical body. You can imagine this

like a computer virus check program if you want to, finding and

repairing any damaged parts of you.

Next, bring in the waterfall energy to strengthen your mind. Feel it

giving you the power of better understanding and stronger memory. You

can imagine this as a computer memory upgrade. See the light filling

your mind and lighting it up brightly.

Now feel the white light pouring in you and filling you with peace. It

brings you calmness and relaxation. Feel this healing your

emotions. The white light pours gently into you, filling you with

universal love and joy. If you wish, you may also feel this energy

strengthen and heal your spirit (or spiritual body). :::pause:::

Anytime you need to use this universal energy, you simply think

" Waterfall " and shut your eyes and it will be there for you. To use

this energy to help others, you can simply send it out of yourself

from your heart like a laser beam to whoever you want it to

help. Think of someone you know who is sick or injured, or if you

can't think of anyone, be grateful for this and instead choose your

mom or dad, a grandparent, brother, sister, or a friend. Imagine

sending this energy out from your heart directly to them, connecting

your beam of energy to their heart. Know that the energy will go to

wherever it is most needed for this person, whether it is to a part of

their physical body or to their emotions, their mind, or their

spirit. Stay connected to this person for a moment while the universal

love you are sending them fills them and works to heal

them. :::pause:::

Now bring the energy back to yourself and see it flowing directly

through you and down into the ground, refreshing your body and your

mind. Now let us unite our energies as a class. Send your energy out

from your heart center to a great ball or sphere above the center of

the room. See the ball getting brighter and bigger. As it grows, see

it rising up higher and higher. Fill it more and more and see it

getting bigger and bigger. It rises til it is way up above the Earth

now and very very bright. (You can select a specific location or

persons to send this to or just disperse it over the entire Earth as

described here.) Feel the sphere getting bigger and brighter and

fuller until it seems about to explode. Yes, it's even bigger now and

it does! It bursts like fireworks now, dispersing over the entire

Earth, bringing our combined light and universal love to the whole

planet and its peoples to help enlighten the whole world and raise the

planet's vibration.

Finally, bring the energy back to yourself and feel it filling you

again with universal love and peace. Fill up a reserve of this energy

in your head or your heart to use whenever you need it. Feel it

flowing directly through you and down into the Earth, bringing healing

now to Mother Earth as well. See this beautiful white light waterfall

of energy all around you. Enjoy this waterfall for another moment..

::pause::

Now the waterfall begins to thin and to fade and you can

start to see out around the edges. You step out of the waterfall now

and find yourself...

(back in the classroom or start Imaginary Field Trip here).

The Waterfall does not need to be as involved as this to

be effective for guided imageries. For instance, the parts of healing

others and healing the planet MAY be skipped, but just think how

wonderful it would be (is) if these are truly effective. What a tool

the children are learning from this! This is the principle on which

Reiki, Tai Chi, and Karate are based, among others. This energy is

well known and taught in the East, but hardly known at all in the

West. I have found it to be very effective with all students

regardless of age. They are amazed at the experience and commonly

report the waterfall as their favorite part of the whole Imaginary

Field Trip. I have used a form of this with students as young as first

graders. It helps to bring them very deep into imagination and also

relaxation.

I believe I first got the waterfall idea from a book on guided

imageries for children called " Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery

with Children for Learning, Creativity, and Relaxation " by Maureen

Murdock, 1987. In any case, I have expanded the concept immensely from

my initial reading of this several years ago. I hope you enjoy using

this yourself and with your children.

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