Pathworking "Safe Place"

The following is the first guided mediation or pathworking that will help you to find and explore a safe haven. The place will be your starting point in future pathworkings, so take the time to build it up and explore it. Record the following text, making appropriate pauses and speaking slowly ("appropriate" meaning rather long. They will not feel as long once you actually do the meditation.) Alternatively, you can simply memorize it before starting.

Preparation:
Choose a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Switch off the phone. Make sure you have enough time. Make yourself comfortable, but not too comfortable to avoid falling asleep. Again, I recommend sitting, either on the floor or in a chair.

Exercise:
Take a deep breath and relax. Feel all your anxiety, stress and tension fade away as you exhale. As you breath in, you are filled with calm. As you breath out, you let go of any tension... Breath in calm... Breath out ... Breath in ... Breath out... Breath in... Breath out ... Breath in...
Close your eyes. Picture a path that leads away from where you are standing. You follow that path, walking along it. It makes some twists and turns, so you cannot see where it is leading. However, you feel comfortable on that path and you enjoy your walk.
Then, after what was probably the fifth turn, you walk through a kind of doorway and you feel immediately at home. The place you enter can be a forest clearing, or a beach, a mountaintop or a secluded place beside a waterfall, a cottage or a cave. What is it? Look around yourself. Where are you? The important part is that there is noone else here, only you, and that you feel completely safe, as if you had just come home.
Look around yourself. What do you see? Explore! Or simply be in that safe place and enjoy the feeling of safety and the relaxation you experience there. (If you record the text, leave time for exploration).
Now it is time for you to return to everyday reality. Take a last look around, then go towards the doorway where you have come in. If the doorway closed or vanished after you crossed it, it now reappears and opens. Go through the doorway, and follow the path that lead you there. With every step that you make, every turn you are taking, you leave that world behind and come back more and more into your physical body... The path and its surroundings slowly vanish, as you become more and more aware of your body. Feel where you are in touch with the ground or the chair. Experimentally move your fingers, your toes. Finally, open your eyes. Welcome back.

Repeat this pathworking time and again. Your safe place should be something you can reach easily and fast. You should know it and be comfortable there. It will be a starting point for the pathworkings that will come later on.
Always return to the same safe place. Stick with one such place. That will make it easier to get there reliable and fast. If you feel uncomfortable there, of course you can switch to a different safe place, and then stick with the new one. Repetition helps you to make it really easy to get there.