Summer Solstice Meditation

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary …  Sylvia Plath, “ The Moon and the Yew Tree ”

Sit quietly in an easy seated position.  Let your spine be long.  Imagine a string running from your tailbone up your spine and out the crown of your head.  Imagine someone pulling up the string, lifting you into a nice alert position.

Focus on your breathing.  Let go, let it flow.  Relax your arms and legs.  Relax your root chakra (private parts), relax your internal organs, your heart, throat, eyeballs and brain.  Keep letting go.  Let thoughts pass like clouds in a summer blue sky.  If you start thinking, say to yourself, “thinking,” and focus once again on your breathing.

This is a good time to use a mantra, words that help calm the “monkey mind” and set one’s intentions.  I like nam myoho renge kyo.

Get in touch with your root chakra, at the tip of your tailbone.  This is your lowest chakra, and it grounds you.  Open this chakra down into the earth and feel safe.  It’s the seat of your life force.  It’s also your sexy chakra.  In your root chakra, picture a fiery-red hibiscus flower.  Sexy, hot, fresh and alive.  Let the fiery-red glow fill your lower parts.  Oo-la-la.

Now focus on your second chakra, in your belly.  This is the seat of creativity.  The color is orange.  Imagine a hot-orange Tropicana rose filling this area with radiant life.  Smell its wonderful smell.  Let the Tropicana rose turn into a Peace rose, a soft soothing yellow with pink-tinged petals.  Focus on this pinkish-yellow glow.  Let it fill your belly with a deep sense of peace.  Send this out into the world.

Your third chakra is located in your solar plexus.  This is your strength center, your powerful core, physically and spiritually.  Imagine a fiery yellow-white sun.  Let its heat and roar fill the center of your being.  Feel the power within.  Your third chakra helps you hold your space in the world.  It can be the seat of “no,” as in, “No, I will not be on that committee,” or “No, I will not drive you across town during rush hour when it’s 103 degrees out.”  Enjoy connecting with your third chakra power center and saying “no”—without apologies or explanations or unnecessary smiles.  You rock!

Your fourth chakra is your heart chakra.  It is the center of your being.  Open your heart.  Send love out into the world.  Open your heart.  Receive love from the world.  Let your heart center fill with green light.  Imagine a beautiful tree bursting with green leaves.  Let its branches and buds open, sending tendrils of green healing light out into the world.  Feel this light glowing in your heart center.

Your fifth chakra is the seat of your voice.  Sometimes this chakra can become constricted.  Women are often encouraged to be silent.  On the flipside, our voices are often not heard.  Fill your fifth chakra with a glittering blue light.  Imagine a volcanic lake—like Crater Lake—ancient, wise and deep.  Harness this cool and immense power.  Speak your truth.

Your sixth chakra is located in the space between your eyebrows.  This is your third eye, the seat of intuition.  The color is indigo, a dark violet-blue.  Imagine a deep, dark midnight sky, full of starry light.  This is the dream space.  Focus on your third eye.  What dreams dance here?  Send them out into the world.  What visions come to you?  Thank the universe for its wisdom.

Your seventh chakra is located at the crown of your head.  The light is lavender.  This chakra connects you to your higher spiritual self.  Imagine a thousand petal lotus flower, a crown of violet light.  You are a queen.  Let your higher self speak to you.  Let violet light cascade down from above, filling your body, mind and soul. 

Sit in seated meditation for as long as you like.  Enjoy the color-drenched energy and light filling your entire being.  Know that you are one with the wisdom and beauty of the natural world.

Namaste.   

Quick Guide

Chakra                        Color               Seat                             Image

Root Chakra               Red                 Life force, sexuality    Hibiscus flower

Second Chakra          Orange            Creativity                    Tropicana rose, Peace rose

Third Chakra              Yellow               Power center              Sun

Fourth Chakra            Green              Heart center               Tree

Fifth Chakra               Blue                  Voice                          Lake

Sixth Chakra               Indigo              Third eye, intuition      Midnight sky

Seventh Chakra         Purple               Spirituality                   Thousand petal lotus flower