Session 1: Radiant Rejuvenation

The heaviness is a relaxation tool. You imagine your feet, legs, arms, hands and then your head growing heavy, and you feel yourself sinking into the surface beneath you. Your lower back, upper back, face and jaw are invited to loosen in turn, until your body feels warm and soothed as if you had just stepped out of a bath.

It is any place where you feel calm, safe and content. The session offers a spring mountain meadow, a secluded spot by the ocean or a secret garden, but yours can be somewhere you have been, somewhere you'd like to go, or somewhere imaginary. You are asked to look around and notice what you see, hear and smell.

Warmth is the central image. First it travels from your toes over your shins, knees, thighs and stomach, up through your chest and neck. Later you imagine a soft warm towel or the sun resting on your chest. Both are there to give you something concrete to feel while you picture.

The session is a guided act of imagination, and it makes no claim beyond that. What it offers is rest, warmth and the habit of picturing yourself healthy, proud of your body and at ease. Listen for the feeling it gives you, not as a promise of physical results.

You picture yourself as you would like to be: healthy, radiating good feelings, doing the things you always wanted to do. One scene has you relaxing on a beautiful day in a bathing suit, feeling that you love your body. The voice then leaves you to let those images drift in and out with the music until the end.

It begins by asking you to find a quiet, reclined position and let go of the day's noise, and it ends on self-love and a sense of fulfilment. Done early, it lets you carry that warm, positive picture of yourself into the hours ahead.