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By: Molothrus A. • @molothrus.bsky
Welcome to SoundMind. We thank you for choosing our services, as you begin your journey through the world of guided meditation, breathing exercises, and research backed relaxation techniques. Today, you have selected Guided Meditation #77BR2. We would like to confirm that your payment for Guided Meditation #77BR2 has been processed. We would like to remind you that you are loved. Now, let us begin.
Begin by closing your eyes and taking a single deep breath. Hold. Hold. Hold. And release. To get the most out of this Guided Meditation, start by arranging your limbs in a manner that feels natural to them. You are free to sit, stand, or lie down, but make sure you focus on the want of your elbow, the cravings of your wrist, and the desire of your shoulder. You are in control of them all the time, until one day, you are not. Consider what they would want if they weren't so tethered to you. Feel that? Your ankles are free. Your knees, unchained. Your spine, uncoiled. Picture your body floating above itself, a second you, arranged in that position of perfect comfort. Now, imagine that second body hurts. Imagine the auxiliary you above the primary you as it contorts and writhes, as burns and aches permeate and consume that body. Take a deep breath. Hold. Hold. Hold. And release. Do not claim the pain of the auxiliary body. It is not for you. If there is any pain in your primary body, please take this opportunity to gift it to the auxiliary body. Picture yourself plucking the pain out with pliers and putting it in a decorative box. Visualise the colour of the box, and run a finger over its velvet lining. Now, close the lid, and give it away. Ask yourself: how much more pain is in your auxiliary body now, than there was at the beginning? How does that make you feel? How much more of this, do you think, can your other body take? Take a deep breath. Hold. Hold. Hold. And release. For the full duration of this exercise, if you find yourself distracted by pain, please repeat the following steps and gift it to your auxiliary body.
For the next section of this Guided Meditation, visualise that you are standing in a smoke filled room. Place yourself in its centre. Let the soot settle on your skin, on your tongue. Let it latch to the mucus membranes of your eyes. Let it sting. Consider the taste of the smoke. Imagine the organic compounds from which this smoke emerged. What do you see? Love letters, family photographs? A pair of leather loafers gifted to you on your nineteenth birthday by a friend who is now long gone, the ghost of whom looms over you every time you pass by an arcade? Picture everything that makes up this smoke, and watch as it orbits around you in the smoke-filled room. Take a deep breath. Hold. Hold. Hold. And release. Let the smoke in, and out. It is not for you. Cup your hands in front of you, and let the ash settle into the ridges of your palms. Pray that it will be gentle to you. Now, feel the heft of a bronze, patina-coated key as it lands firmly into the ash of your cupped hands. With this key, you can unlock the smoke-filled room, setting free yourself, the smoke, and everything that made it. Cradle the key with the same gentleness that the smoke cradled you. Now, picture a door in the corner of the smoke-filled room. Walk towards it, and count your steps as you do so. Feel free to choose any corner, but remember your choice, and remember why. Turn around and face the centre, one last time, and take it all in. Deep breath. Hold. Hold. Hold. And release. As you unlock the door, consider writing your arcade friend a letter he will never receive.
You are now at the final section of our Guided Meditation. For this next exercise, picture a dead body, be it in a morgue, a church, or at the bottom of a cliff. Visualise the sunken sockets and empty lungs and pointless capillaries. Now, hold her hand. Consider the cold of it. How counterintuitive, that a thing once so vibrant and electric as her could now be so still and numb. Consider the callouses across the pads of her fingers as they press against the smooth, unblemished skin of yours. Consider the life she led, and all the ones she didn't. Consider candles, flowers, speeches. Consider death in all its ceremonial cruelty. It is not for you. Remember you, too, will die. Remember you are loved. Remember it will end. Remember her. Remember what she did for work and how ashamed she was when she lost that one job uptown. Remember every time she got her heart broken or her purse stolen. Remember how she promised to outlive you. You will feel a compulsion to mourn the promise more than her life. You will feel a compulsion to mourn not her, but the person you were around her. Do you even remember the colour of her eyes? Continue to hold tightly to her motionless hand, that which will never again threaten to pull away, as you mourn and remember. We think that one day, you will be able to let go of her hand. We don't think that day is today. Stay here, and hold on.
You are nearing the end of Guided Meditation #77BR2. For the optimal SoundMind experience, we recommend that you supplement today’s Guided Meditation with Breathing Exercise Packet #54NQ5. Everyone at SoundMind would like to thank you for choosing our services. We sincerely hope you enjoyed today’s session. Take one last deep breath with us. Hold. Hold. Hold.