Guided meditation

This is an inner transcript of a self-guided meditation I recently conducted on myself.

Okay, you're floating on water, in the middle of the ocean. All is peaceful. You're just being taken by the currents. Feel the undulating waves beneath you, carrying you nowhere in particular. Enjoy it, embrace it. You're on your back, looking at the sun. Feel the sun's warmth, radiating all around you, except for the part that's underwater. Feel the coolness of the water on your back. Feel it. It's salty. Now back to feeling the warmth of the sun. Feel the UV rays penetrate your skin. Feel your skin turn red and blister. Feel your skin peel. You forgot to put on your sunscreen. Turn over. You are now looking down into the depths of the ocean. The depths go on and on and on. For thousands and thousands of feet. If you were to drown, no one would ever find you. See the depths.

What do you see? You see black. Black depths. But coming out of the depths, you see sea turtles, glowing starfish, seahorses, giant squid, fish. You see schools of thousands of fish. See the fish. See the whales. See them feeding on the fish. Feel the crushing of thousands of fish lives. You see jellyfish, thousands of jellyfish, drifting toward you. Feel their loving tentacles stinging you. Feel the sunburn on your front, feel the jellyfish stinging on your back.

Turn over again. Feel the salt water go into the cracks of your skin, burning you from the inside. Taste the salt water in your mouth. Feel your lips cracking. Taste the blood from your lips mixing with the salt water in your mouth. Do you feel it? Good. Taste the iron and the salt.

You see something in the distance, just below the horizon. It's a barge. You drift closer to it. What do you see? People. Crew members. They see you. They are running about, what do they do? See the life preserver they toss to you. They lower a dinghy into the water to save you. How do you feel? Do you feel safe?

You feel something brush up against you in the water. You see fins. You feel teeth on your arm tearing your flesh. Feel the tearing. You feel your arm, but it has been torn off by the shark. Feel the phantom arm. What else do you feel? Sharks ripping your legs off? Do they pull you under? What are the men from the barge doing? Shooting at the sharks? Do they accidentally shoot you? Feel the blood flowing into the sea. See the sharks flock to you. Feel the frenzy. Feel the teeth rip into your spleen. See the black fall over you. Do you see a light?

And slowly open your eyes.

Please feel free to record this to use for your own self-guided meditations. Namaste!