Bonus Meditation: A Quiet Moment with Your Loved One A Guided Meditation for Love, Comfort & Connection

Designed as a companion to the Walking with Grief podcast episode and workbook, this meditation invites you into a peaceful space of relaxation, reflection, and love. Through guided imagery and quiet presence, you'll have the opportunity to remember a loved one, reconnect with cherished memories, and open your heart to the possibility that love continues beyond physical loss.

Whether your experience is one of vivid connection, quiet reflection, or simply a moment of peace, allow yourself to receive exactly what you need today.

This meditation is offered with deep respect for the unique way each person experiences grief. There is no expectation, no right outcome, and no need to force anything to happen. Simply come with an open heart and allow the experience to unfold in whatever way feels right for you.

May it bring you comfort.
May it bring you peace.
And may it remind you that love has a way of remaining with us, always.

Free Companion Resources:
🌊 Download the free Walking with Grief: Honor + Heal companion workbook, filled with gentle reflections, journaling prompts, and healing practices. You can find this and many other workbooks in the Healing Waves Reiki Workbook Library.

https://healingwaves-reiki.com/

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Welcome back to the Healing Waves Wiki Podcast. This meditation is designed to help you spend time with a loved one or loved one that have crossed to the other side. This is an interactive experience. So just sit back, relax, and listen to my words. Allow your eyes to close. And take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. Take a deep breath in, and as you exhale, release all expectations, all fears, all worries. Just for a moment. Imagine all the muscles in your body just relaxing, releasing all tension, all pain. Take a deep breath in and a long slow breath out. Take a deep breath in and imagine your breath flowing through your rib cage, expanding, spreading, deepening, relaxation in your whole body. Take a deep breath in and let it all go. Relax all the muscles in your face, your forehead, your eyes, your cheeks, your mouth, your lips. Just relax. Take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. Relax your chin and your jaw, allowing all the muscles in your face to soften. Relax your neck, your throat, the back of your neck, releasing all the tension you've been holding. Relax your shoulders, releasing the weight of the world. Feel your shoulders drop. Relax your arms, your elbows, your forearms, your wrists, your hands. Relax your fingers. Let all the tension just go. Imagine your arms getting heavy and relaxed. Take a deep breath in and a long slow breath out. Notice your breathing. Feel the rhythm of your breathing. Notice the expansion of your diaphragm, your ribs, your chest. Allow your chest muscles to relax and your stomach. Relax your back, your lower back, your mid back, your upper back, letting all the tension, all the weight just go. Relax your hips and your thighs, your hamstrings, your knees, your shins, your calves, your ankles, your feet, your toes. Just allow your legs to relax completely. As you begin to drift into a very deep relaxed state, let your mind and your body become one. As you relax more and more, you might notice certain feelings in your body. You might notice some numbness or tingling in your arms or your legs. A lightness where you would feel almost as though you were floating above the comfortable surface you are resting on. Or you may experience a heaviness where you might feel almost as though you are melting into the chair or the bed or the couch you are resting on. These are signs of letting go. You might notice a need to swallow as you relax more and more, and it is perfectly okay to do so. Your eyelids may flutter as your eyes rest more deeply as you begin to let go. You begin to feel a sensation of warm peacefulness washing over your body in subtle, gentle waves. You begin to relax so well that you can feel free of the body, free of sensations, perhaps more in touch with your true self. Experiencing any of these signs just shows your willingness and readiness to connect with spirit. And at the count of one, you'll drift as deep into a peaceful meditative state as you need to go, at your own rate and your own pace. Allow the sound of my voice to gently transport you to a peaceful, beautiful place. A safe place. A place where you are happy, where you feel so good, and it is just beautiful there. Now just be there. Notice the beautiful sights, the beautiful sounds. As I begin to count, you will drift deeper and deeper into a peaceful meditative sleep.

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Twenty relaxing nineteen deeper eighteen seventeen more comfortable sixteen fifteen more relaxed, fourteen, thirteen, imagining this peacefulness, twelve, eleven, relaxing more, ten, nine, deeper, relaxed, eight, seven, six, five, even deeper, four, so relaxed, three, two, one, deep, deep meditative peace, and the deeper you go, the better you feel.

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The better you feel, the deeper you want to go. It's almost as though you are becoming a part of the peacefulness you imagine. I want you to imagine a bright white light coming down from above, entering the top of your head, filling your entire body. See it, feel it, and it becomes reality. Now imagine an aura of pure, beautiful white light emanating from your heart, surrounding your entire body, protecting you in a bubble of white light. See it, feel it, and it becomes reality. Only positive energy and loving spirits that walk in the white light will be able to influence you and connect with you during this meditative session. You are totally protected by this bubble of pure, beautiful white light. Imagine a beam of this beautiful white light reaching upwards and outwards from the top of your head, higher and higher. As you become aware of this beam of white light, feel your awareness being drawn upwards through it. Your awareness goes all the way up, higher and higher. Just feel your awareness being drawn up until at the end of that beam of white light you become aware of your ethereal body in exactly the same position that your physical body is in now. Nod your head when you can experience yourself there. Now take your awareness into the image of your ethereal self. Become one with it and experience yourself floating, floating, floating through time and space, almost as if there is no such thing as time or space. Feel yourself being drawn through many different planes of existence, allowing yourself to be curious as to what you notice around you as you drift and float. Drift and float, drifting higher and higher than ever before. You may be aware of beautiful colors, deep purple, indigo, pure and brilliant shades of blue or pink, or perhaps there are no colors at all, just a comforting, soft velvet blackness, a place void of color, apart from a shimmering halo of other spirit beings. Whatever you see is right for you. You will be aware of whatever is there for you on this mystical journey. You can hear yourself breathing. You can be aware of your physical body resting there, safe and comfortable. You can be aware that you're entering a different dimension, a place where the spirits of loved ones could have crossed over, and your spirit guides are waiting for you. You can walk and talk with your spirit guides and the spirits of loved ones that have passed here before you. And they are all here. And the wonderful thing about this is that everyone on this plane can respond by thought. This means that you only need to think about someone you like to see, and they will appear and communicate with you in their own special way. During this state of meditative peace, I would like you to know and understand fully that you can communicate with the spirits of your loved ones and your spirit guides whenever you wish. All with the power of your wonderful subconscious mind. In a few moments, I will be quiet and I will allow you to experience the peace and beauty of this deep meditative time. Just being and communicating with the spirit or spirits of your loved ones and guides. Speak to them with your thoughts using your mind. Visualize what they look like. See their clothes, see their hair, see their wide, happy smiles. In fact, everyone you see is smiling. There is no more pain, no more sadness, no sickness, no tears in this beautiful spiritual place. All those things are left behind for them when they left their physical, earthly bodies. There's now only joy, only happiness, only peace, and only love. They can hear your thoughts and will understand every word you think or say. Listen carefully to whatever is said to you and remember it always. Experience yourself looking into your heart, your spiritual heart, and taking with you all the love, wisdom, and knowledge that is presented to you. I want you to now visualize a beautiful space, a visiting room. It appears for you, and it is a place to sit. Perhaps a bench or chairs. Look around. Go sit. This is the visiting room for the other side. One or more of your loved ones are coming to meet you here. In fact, one is entering and coming to sit right now. Now I will be quiet for many minutes and allow you to connect with your loved ones. And during this time, just notice what you see, what you hear, even if it's in your own words, what you feel, what you know. Bring your attention back to my voice. Hug your loved ones and know that you can always talk with your loved ones and your guides whenever you want to, whenever you need to. You can do so every day of your life, wherever you are, whenever you wish. Nothing will ever separate you from the love and spiritual bond that eternally connects you to your loved ones that have crossed over and your guides. You may not see them with your eyes when you are awake in the physical earthly world, but they are there around you all the time and surrounding you with their love, guidance, and protection. They may even visit you while you are sleeping and dreaming, as the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world is very thin in the sleep state. And you can always communicate with your loved ones through thought and prayer. They are always around you, listening, loving, and walking with you on the path of your earthly life. When you talk to them in whatever manner you choose, they will always hear you. Now I'm going to count forward from one to five. And when I reach the count of five, you will be back in the present, and you will be able to remember everything you experienced. You will feel relaxed, refreshed, and you'll be able to do whatever you have planned for the rest of the day. You will feel very positive about what you experienced and very motivated about your confidence and ability to connect spiritually with your loved ones who have crossed over and with your spirit guides whenever and wherever you choose to do so. Here we go. One, very, very deep. Two, you're getting a bit lighter. You're getting much, much lighter. Four, very, very light, and five, awake, wide awake and refreshed. Feel free to come back to this meditation anytime you like. But also know you don't need this meditation to connect with your loved ones on the other side. Simply be present. Simply notice. Simply use the power of your thought to communicate.