starrysam

The breeze gently blows across your face, a warm calming sensation.

You breathe out slowly, feeling the breath intertwine with the wind.

Closing your eyes you stay as still as you can and take in the gentle noises.

The leaves rustling, the birds chirping and the faint sound of the occasional car.

You hear these noises and feel them fill you with a small bit of joy.

The liveliness and life in each noise which reminds you that you are not alone.

Along with the breeze that blows faintly over your face and ruffles your hair, just enough to be reassuring.

After a long stressful day, you let the music flow through you. The sensations sending miniature vibrations to your brain. The buzz stops as the song shits to a more calming rythm. The notes strike your imagination like an xylophone. Soft in tone but regular in pace. Your eyes close to the harmonies brought to your ears.

If sound is just vibrations then how can music sound so sweet? It is a questions perhaps no-one will ever answer though who needs answers when you have something better. The music is right here, you could just embrace it instead of asking impossible questions.

You allow your body to droop, taking in the music. Letting the music surround you, one breath at a time. Breathing in the melody, the notes and the harmonies. Whether someone's singing to you or you're just listening to an instrument follow the melody, hell maybe even techno helps you relax.

No-one is judging you right now, music can bring people together or it can be a solitary thing, it doesn't matter which one you choose, just let the music calm you as you slip into calm.

You put your pencil onto the paper, sketching out a couple of shapes. These shapes could become anthing right now.

You just keep sketching, running your pencil along the paper and hearing the soft sound it makes.

Slowly bringing something new into existence, finding a new idea and expressing it.

Whether it be the soft curve of a circle or the straight lines of a rectangle or square, the drawing comes to life through you and your pencil.

You take deep breaths as you draw, breathing in the new expression. Each drawing comes with a new experience and that experience will be different for everyone. You are the only person who knows what it's really about and as you smile at the drawing you realise what truly makes it special.

You're sitting outside on the steps up to your front door, you can hear the rain on the roof and a few droplets find their way down to drip onto you.

The droplets are calm and cold enough to relax your tense body slightly.

You shuffle down a step and let it rain down onto your face, breathing in the cooler air and letting calm take over. You take a deep breath and feel the raindrops rolling off your shoulders and racing down your face.

It's a spring shower so you know that staying out here won't cause you to catch a cold.

At this point, your clothes are soaked though they're cold and the coolness of your shirt makes it less of a burden to carry.

You take off your shoes and tip the water that has gathered out of them. After putting your shoes back on you walk into the middle of the garden and stand there just letting the rain pour down on you. Occasionally you open your mouth and catch raindrops as they fall, the cold grounding you in reality.

There's no-one to disturb you as you stand in your secret little haven with water dripping off of you.

Occasionally someone passes by with an umbrella or a little kid tries to run out into the rain only to be scooped up and taken back inside by their mother both of them laughing. But no-one looks at you and you get to have this little bit of rain all to yourself.

You laugh into the rain, maybe challenging the rain or maybe your in a childlike state enthralled by its beauty. Whether a little giggle or a full belly laugh, you're embracing the rain and telling it to come back soon.

Apologising for all those times you say 'rain, rain, go away'. You're chosing to revel in the rain and recognise it's true beauty.

You take one last deep breath, bringing in the calming scent of fresh rain before stepping inside.