# Guided Meditation: Presence and Creativity

## Opening Invitation

Here's a little attunement for you.

Feel free to close your eyes, and sit as you wish, lay down, stand on one leg—whatever works for you.

Attunements for herons.

That'd be a good one, wouldn't it?

Settling In

So, just pausing.

Yeah, I've got an image of a heron actually coming up.

The way they kind of stand.

And they can be really still.

And they're kind of poised, really, in this... well, you could say quality of awareness and presence.

Yeah, fully aware.

Becoming Available

So... yeah, just becoming available.

And whatever's alive in us, whether it's less alive or more alive.

We can sense our feet on the ground, or body on the chair or cushion.

Fantastic.

Whatever it's on.

Body Awareness

Tuning in to sensing from your feet... the shape of your body.

Just being available to that.

And it normally comes with a whole load of sensations.

A patchwork quilt of sensations.

A kaleidoscope of sensations.

Clothing... pressure... temperature... tingling... pulsing... moving... still.

Expanding Awareness

Perhaps sensing from the body, the space around.

Beyond the four walls.

Into that magical... still... eternity.

An infinity of... diamonds... worlds... planets... stars.

Comets.

And here we are, rotating on our axis, spinning around the sun—our own star.

Inner Sensing

And then, all of this... sensing within what's there.

Some mood which is obvious, some tiredness, some... something calm, something anxious, something... it's like... maybe it doesn't have a word.

Maybe it's subtle, maybe it's really obvious.

In that space.

Receiving With Compassion

Receiving that in a way that works for you.

Tenderly... gently... spaciously... compassionately.

Just as you are.

Theme Introduction

Yeah, so the theme of this module is creativity.

Finding creative holding... maybe... agility... guest... sensitivity... playfully... perhaps.

Keeping the inner universe company in this way.

Closing

And taking your time to emerge.

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