You may wish to soften the space around you.  You can dim the lights, turn off the telephone, play soft music, light a candle, or do anything else that puts you into a relaxed frame of mind in preparation for a meditation.  Find a comfortable position, sitting in a comfortable chair with your arms well supported, your feet resting on the floor, and your head balanced easily and comfortably.  You may use pillows for your arms and a stool or box under your feet to get into a balanced and comfortable position. If you prefer to lie down, please imagine you are sitting in a chair with your arms resting in your lap and both of your feet touching the floor.

Close your eyes.
Take a slow deep breath… in  and  out.
Settle into a comfortable position.
Your arms are supported.
Your body is balanced.

Imagine you are sitting in a chair in a clear meadow on a warm day.

You can feel the warm earth under your feet.

You can feel the warm sun on your shoulders.

You can feel a gentle breeze on your face.

The air is fresh and clean and you smell a hint of wild flowers in the distance.

Slow  deep  breath.

With your eyes closed, imagine you see a hillside far across the meadow.

The hillside is covered with tall green grass swaying gently with the wind,

and dotted with strong pine trees reaching toward the sky.

You see a field of white and yellow wild flowers scattered around you.

You catch a glimpse of a bird with wings outstretched quietly sailing above you.

Continue a slow, easy, rhythm of breathing.

Behind you emerge the sounds of a babbling brook.  The water runs gently and swiftly, splashing over stones and swirling around twigs.

Listen to the sound of the water.

Feel the warmth of the sun.

Enjoy the sun-dappled green and yellow and white colors of the meadow before you, and the shimmering blue of the sky above you.

You are comfortable.  You feel peaceful.

You are protected now, settled in your chair in the meadow.

With your mind’s eye look over the meadow to the far hillside.

Notice the sun is beginning to set.

The sky grows orange and the sun moves slowly down through the tops of the trees.

As you sit, comfortable and peaceful in your chair, bring to consciousness something that is troubling you.

Pull the trouble up and out.  Hold it in your hands.

All  of  it.

Bring it from your heart and from your gut and from your head.

Scan your body and your thoughts and your feelings to be sure you have the whole trouble in your hands.

For just a moment, honor this trouble, for it did serve you in some way.

Now it is time to let it go.

Hold your hands together, palms facing heavenward.  With your imagination, or with your real arms, lift your hands upward slightly.

And as you do this, send your trouble to the setting sun.

Your trouble flows easily and steadily to the setting sun.

Soon it will be fully absorbed into the sun’s fire.

Stay there as long as you like.

When you are ready, lower your arms to their resting position.

You are still in a chair in the meadow.

Slow,  deep  breath.

Notice the setting sun is sinking lower.

You see its deep orange arc over the hillside.

It has your trouble in its fire as it descends into the earth.

Sun's fire can easily accept and purify all negative energies, transforming them completely and absolutely to goodness and light, and sending the goodness and light to spread over the earth with tomorrow’s morning sunrise.

Focus now on the soles of your feet.

Notice the warmth of the earth and sense the earth’s energy gathered at the soles of your feet.

All remaining darkness within you drains down through the soles of your feet and into the earth below you.

You feel free.

You feel enlightened.

Enjoy the feeling.

Look up toward the sky with your mind’s eye and see that it is again daylight.

The sun glows brilliant in a blue sky dotted with white fluffy clouds.

Take a deep breath and feel yourself rising, preparing to meet the brightness of the day.

When you are ready, open your eyes, stretch your body,

have a tall glass of fresh cool water.

Join the day, enjoying each moment of it.