In this five‑minute guided meditation, Dallas Bragg invites listeners to use the winter solstice (December 21, 2023) as a catalyst for shadow work, especially for those in sobriety or recovery. He begins by prompting a comfortable posture and a systematic body‑scan to release tension. He then directs attention to the third‑eye area, keeping the eyes closed while breathing in a counted pattern (5‑second inhales and exhales). Listeners are asked to summon a light from their higher self, observe its color and consistency, and visualize it scanning the body from head to toe and back. The shifting sensation of the light is presented as a clue to where subconscious shadow aspects—unprocessed trauma, limiting beliefs, inner‑child material, or energetic residues—are stored. After the scan, participants are encouraged to note the areas of strongest shift, associate them with chakra locations, and use that insight to focus shadow‑work on the solstice and beyond. The meditation closes with a gentle reminder to trust intuition, seek further resources, and allow the illuminated aspects to support personal growth through the winter months into 2024.
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A real quick 5-minute meditation for the solstice, which is tomorrow, December 21st, 2023. Or you can do this meditation at any time if you're preparing yourself for shadow work. So the solstice this year is calling us, especially if you are in sobriety and recovery, to illuminate and look for shadow aspects of yourself. Shadow aspects are in your subconscious. They're parts of you that are authoring your life without you knowing it. So typically it's beliefs. It's trauma, unprocessed energy, maybe inner child work. It may be energetic entities that you've received from other people or past lives. But this is part of you that you're not aware of that is creating and crystallizing into realities in your life without your consent. Subconsciously, you're consenting to it because you're allowing it, but you're not aware. So in this solstice season, we're going to seek and be open to and And give space for shadow aspects to come to light. Now, quickly, we're going to get comfortable in your chair, feet flat on the floor, or you can lie down on your back. Feel the pressure of the bed or the couch on your body. Feel your feet flat on the floor, your legs on the chair. And a quick way to relax is turn awareness to separate parts of your body. Turn your awareness to your right leg. If you feel any tension, let it go. Turn your awareness to your left foot. Turn your awareness to your hips. Turn your awareness to your arms. Turn your awareness to your left leg, shoulders, jawbone. Loosen it. Make sure you're not tense, clenched. Turn your awareness to your eyelids. And just to get us into a nice hypnotic state, I want you to keep your eyelids closed. Take your eyeballs and look straight up to the center of your forehead where your third eye would be. Keep your eyeballs there. Your eyelids will try to blink quickly. That's okay. Keep them closed. Keep them looking up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Let go. You should feel a little more relaxed. Breathe normally. In this quick meditation, we're going to illuminate our body. With the light of our higher self. So I want you to now ask your higher self to bring in a light that's going to hover above your body. I want you to pay attention to how that light shows up. What color is it? What consistency is it? What does it look like? Pay attention to that. First impression is always the right impression. Don't second-guess. Let it be. Now we're going to breathe in through the nose. We're gonna breathe out through the mouth. Breathe in for 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Exhale. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Now we're gonna do 3 more, and then I want you to breathe deeper and longer than you normally would. Inhale through the nose. 3, 4, 5. Exhale through the mouth. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Inhale through the nose. 2, 3, 4, 5. Exhale through the mouth. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 5. Inhale through the nose. 2, 3, 4, 5. Exhale through the mouth. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Relax. Now I want you to imagine this light begins almost like a laser, and it's scanning your forehead. It's moving down your face, over your eyes, your nose, your mouth, your chin. Scanning, scanning. It's Scanning your neck. As you feel the light moving down your body, I want you to feel the shift in your energy and pay attention to where you feel the most significant shift. That's going to give you a clue as to where you do your shadow work. Would you imagine that light is now moving down your shoulders, your chest? As it moves down, it's leaving that color on your body. Whatever Whatever color that light is, wherever it's scanned and wherever it's been, that's the color roaming around, coursing through your body in that area. It's moving down your stomach area and your arms, past your belly button. It's moving through your hips, quadriceps, top of the legs, down through the legs, over the knees. It's moving down your shins, all the way across your ankles, and across your feet. Breathe in. Breathe out. Where did you feel the shift? Maybe you felt it all over, and that's okay too. That gives you an idea. Now we're going to let that light scan back from your toes. It's moving Moving back up your feet and your ankles, moving up your shins and your knees, top of your legs, your hips, your belly button, your stomach. It's covering your arms, your chest, shoulders, neck, jaw, mouth, nose, eyes, and top of head. It scans your entire body again. I want you to feel that shift in the energy. I want you to feel where in your body you feel the most called to work on. Open your eyes. That's going to give you an idea of which chakra area, which part of your body that shadow aspect may be housed. And that's going to give you a clue of where to focus tomorrow on the solstice. And for more on this, You're welcome to reach out to me. Do your own research. There's all kinds of information out there, but I do suggest just go within, follow your intuition, and don't second-guess what your higher self, your angels, your guides are telling you to do, to figure out, to illuminate that part of you that's going to help move forward through the winter months and into 2024. Thank you.
