What I've got for you in this episode of The Soul Garden: conversations for Midlife Living, is a guided meditation that I have recorded and called Vessel of Peace. I wrote and recorded this meditation for a friend, but like a stone dropped into water, my hope is its medicine will ripple out to others too. This is a meditation for those times that we need a bit of healing. Maybe we’ve gone through a medical intervention. Maybe we have had a relationship change, a loss. Maybe we are just feeling lost ourselves and need something to help us regain our equilibrium. My hope is that this meditation is for any midlife woman who may be feeling any of these things. There is reference within it to the experience of birth, of birthing. And for those of us who may listen to it who have not had children, and I am included in that number, I invite you to think of other things that you have birthed into this world through your creativity, your compassion, your work, your calling. Increasingly these days I find myself thinking of the words of the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, who lived in the 12th century in Germany. She said, whatever we think and feel on the inside becomes the world we create around us. So for me, the words ‘vessel of peace’ move beyond just peace and the sense of self, but ripple out to become the world we create around us. I invite you to get comfortable and give yourself 20 minutes for this meditation and maybe if you like it you may know somebody else who may like it too and I invite you to share it with them also so whoever you are wherever you are. Take a beautiful, nourishing breath. Get ready. Get relaxed. And let the meditation begin.     You can find my offerings at archeus.nz Instagram: @ArcheusNaturalLiving Facebook @ArcheusNaturalLiving Youtube @ArcheusGeorgina