SUNNING
1 Pineal gland 2 Pituitary gland 3 Thyroid gland 4 Thymus 5 Adrenal gland 6 Pancreas 7 Ovary (female) 8 Testes (male)
Stand outside and face the sun. If you wear glasses, remove them. Close your eyes. Let the bright healing light of the sun shine down on your third eye, the place between your eyebrows. (Do not stare at the sun, even with your eyes closed). Feel the warmth and let the light shine and fill your brain.
Let the light and warmth penetrate from the outer parts of the brain into the middle of your head where your hypothalamus resides. This gland is about the size of an almond but plays a very important role in linking our outside world to our inside world.
Now let this bright white healing light come down to a place just below the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland. This gland secretes the hormones that allows your body to maintain homeostasis in the body. Let the bright white healing light send its energy into the pituitary, lighting all aspects. Once you have filled these two glands with the healing white light, let it travel to the pineal gland that is located just behind the pituitary. This gland is the key to our sleep/wake cycle.
Take a breath while the light connects these three glands. Enjoy and give gratitude.
Once you are full with the bright healing light of the sun, bring it down to your thyroid located in the middle of your throat. Your thyroid sends the metabolism signals in your body. Let the bright white light ease the tension in your throat, and energize the thyroid. Breathe and stay there with the light.
Next, draw the light down to the thymus gland just below your collar bones in the middle of your sternum. This is your immune stimulating gland. Let the bright white light warm you. Breathe.
Embrace the bright white light and bring it to your heart. Allow it to fill your heart and surround it. Once you have completely warmed your heart, let the light filter to the stomach, just below the diaphragm, allowing it to feel the warmth and light. Give thanks to your heart and stomach for all they do.
Once these organs are filled with the bright warm light, draw the light and warmth into the adrenals located just on top of your kidneys and at the bottom of your rib cage on each side. These glands regulate our stress coping hormones. Let them feel the peaceful and warm energy of the bright white light until it spills over to the pancreas, which is located just above your naval and underneath the stomach on the left side of your rib cage. The pancreas secretes hormones that allow our body to harvest its energy from the food that we eat. Be thankful for the work it does.
Lastly, let the light travel down to your sacred reproductive glands, the ovaries or the testes, and let the light shine where we summon our creative energy. Smile and breathe.
Now turn around and allow that light to come the center of the back of your head. Reconnect the energizing light from the sun to your hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal triad in the center of your brain. Once again, allow the bright white light to travel down the body, this time along your spine and the nerves that span this pathway from the brain to the coccyx. Imagine the energy of the sun's light traveling down to your 7th cervical vertebra, located just behind the thyroid, to the nerves that control our metabolism and our respiration. Once the light has warmed this area that allows us to communicate our truth to the world, allow the light and energy and warmth to travel to your 4th thoracic vertebra, located between the shoulder blades and just behind the heart.
The nerves from this vertebra feed our heart and thymus, where we sense what is wanted and not wanted for our health and survival. Allow the energy to radiate out. Then let the light travel down to the 11th thoracic vertebra, just behind and below the xiphoid process located in the front of the rib cage. This verteba allows us to be flexible, to bend forward and backward, and from side to side. The nerves here feed all of our digestive organs, providing information to and receiving information from and between all our internal visceral organs. It is a place that absorbs many of our emotional traumas. Allow the sun's energy to warm and embrace this nerve complex.
Next allow the sun's energy to travel down the spine to our 3rd lumbar vertebra. This is located just behind the navel, and it is known as door of life where we generate and store our energy. Then let the light travel all the way to the tip of the coccyx, where we receive our support and enjoyment for life.
Stop and concentrate the healing light of the sun where it is needed, stopping at each nerve complex until the nerves that feed our endocrine glands experience the full healing power of the sun. Feel the warmth and the light to travel down your spine, energizing each vertebra from the cranium to the coccyx.
Open your eyes. Look around you. You will find the world much more sharply defined and richer in color. Sense your place in it. Keep this feeling deep within you so you can call it back whenever you want.
