An Outdoor Meditation Script for Peace and Grounding

Sit or stand along with your back against a tree. If you’re feeling protected doing so, close your eyes. Feel the tree trunk against your body. Consider how the tree is just being. It isn’t trying, striving, or judging.

It is an alive, peaceful presence. Let that presence—that unconditional support—prop you up. There is nothing so that you can do straight away, either.(pause)Feel the load of your body on the earth.

The sense of your feet or legs on the bottom. Consider the live beings beneath you – microscopic, unseen, underground, supporting and sustaining all the things around you.

Thank them for allowing you to share their space. Feel the presence of the bottom holding you up. Notice the support it gives, without asking anything in return. Feel the live energy of the earth.

(pause…)

Notice if allowing yourself to be still is bringing any emotions to the surface. If it’s, allow those emotions to be there with you.

When we take the time to be present, it’s normal to note emotions, especially uncomfortable ones, arise. Without emotions, you wouldn’t be human! Notice the temperature of the air against your skin.

Tune into the aliveness of your body feeling that temperature, and, if there’s a breeze, the feeling of it against your skin. Take a couple of deep breaths. Offer gratitude for the free, nutritious air going into your lungs.

Feel your lungs expanding and contracting, and the feeling of the air nourishing you, keeping you alive.