Your Personal Sanctuary
Get into a comfortable position, your feet flat on the ground, back straight, hands open. If there are any sounds, any movement around you during the meditation, let it pass by and vanish into the distance.
Now take your mind away to a relaxing location, a spot you’ve visited on a holiday maybe, somewhere you feel most at ease and at peace. It could be anywhere, real or imaginary. It’s your space, your personal sanctuary. Create what you want and let your imagination fill in all the details. What’s the light like? What can you hear? What’s the temperature like, is it pleasant or breezy? Is it sunny or rainy? What scent can you smell?
Now find a place in your sanctuary to stop and sit down. As you immerse yourself in the atmosphere, relax deeper and deeper into a quiet calm. Become completely quiet and calm as you sit in solitude, enjoying your own company.
It’s time to take your mind away from your sanctuary. You can revisit it anytime. And now come back to your breath. Notice the calmness of your breath, the evenness of your breath.