Filling Your Body with Healing Light for Radiation Therapy (Beth Sandweiss)

Welcome to this guided meditation to help prepare for radiation therapy. You can practice this healing light meditation before treatment to help you feel more prepared, peaceful and confident about your body's natural ability to heal. Begin lying down.

If you need to adjust your position, feel free to do so. Don't worry if your mind wanders when you listen. Just allow these words to seep into your mind and your body. Allowing your weight to settle down through points of contact between your body and the surface you're resting on. That will include the back of your head, shoulder blades, the back of your ribs, lower back elbows, buttocks, thighs, sensing the points of contact between the back of your body and the surface.

Notice what spaces or places in your body are already relaxed or are relaxing as we start.

And notice too any areas of tension or holding. The invitation to the body is to continue to relax and to soften. The invitation to the mind to bring in ease and spaciousness.

Now beginning to invite a healing light into the body. Perhaps a blue golden light, a mixture of bright golden sun and cloudless blue sky or perhaps a luscious vibrant green or a quieter rose color sunset. Whatever color that you imagine might be the most peaceful and enjoyable for you Right now. With each inhale, breathing into this light. With each exhale, relaxing into this light. And sensing this light bright and warm, Nourishing and supporting. Imagine that this light moves through the whole body, through every thought and feeling through the whole system.

Now gradually inviting your awareness to rest inside your toes, inhabiting toes fully, the big toes, and Next, all the way to the small toes, imagining all of your toes bathed in light, saturated with healing light.

Now, since this light, begin to overflow and pour down into the feet, aware of the souls of your feet and the tops of your feet and your whole foot Saturated with lightness and softness. Allowing your feet to fall away from your ankles.

And now allowing the light to stream up into the lower legs, to pour into the lower legs so they become Saturated with light. The calves, your shins, allowing light to flow into and soften any areas of discomfort. As the light now flows up to saturate the front side and packs of the knees and knees caps, Your whole knee completely filled with light.

Now, streaming up into the legs, filling the thighs, allowing both legs to rest fully with a sense of each leg being full of softness and light.

Now coming up to the hip joints, allowing any tension or discomfort to flow into this area. Imagine the hip joints soothed with light.

and then allowing the light to flow up into the base of the spine and buttocks to ease any discomfort and then flowing in the front the area beneath the navel

You may be able to feel movement of breath swelling as you breathe in and subsiding as you breathe out, letting your belly be full of this beautiful healing light.

And now, allowing the light to inhabit the ribcage and chest area to pour into the lungs and heart and ribs, flowing and seeping into all the back muscles, and along the side, so your whole back becomes filled and light.

Breathing along with any sensations, allowing them to be soothed with the breath, softening a little with each out breath. The whole back of your body, and cradle by the rhythm of your breath.

Allowing light now to pour into the shoulder joints. Maybe feeling a softening and an opening in the shoulder joints as they become saturated with light.

And awareness down inside the upper arms, streaming light down the elbows, wrists and hands. The whole of your hands saturated the backs of the hands and fingers, allowing your hands to rest

And this light flowing up through the arms, elbows and upper arms pouring into your neck, softening all the muscles of your neck with lightness.

And as you lie here with your head supported, can you allow your neck muscles to soften, letting the light flow Go to the back of your head and crown to the sides of your head and forehead, filling the whole face, allowing you the light to soften the whole face, the eyebrows and space between the eyebrows, the light flowing into your jaw.

And now broadening out to include your whole body. Your whole body saturated with warm, soft, healing light.

Feeling all the sensations as your breath flows in and out in a wave -like motion. The only movement of your body coming from the breath, letting the breath breathe itself.

As the whole body is saturated, softened, peaceful, eddies, you

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