The Angelic Elevator

If you choose to record this exercise, place your tape player right beside your bed, so you can reach out with your eyes closed to turn it off at the end of the exercise.

1. Close your eyes and feel yourself drifting into sleep. Your breathing is slow and easy.
2. Let your neck relax. Let your shoulders relax. Feel your entire back relaxing. From head to toe, feel your whole body releasing tension.
3. Now, visualize a long, long hallway in your mind. The walls and floors are made of glowing light. See the light, and see yourself slowly walking down the luminous hallway, with your Angel right beside you.
4. At the end of the hallway you see a shimmering portal. This is the doorway to the Angelic Elevator. As you and your Angel get closer, the door slowly opens.
5. Hand in hand, with one of its wings wrapped around your back, your Angel and you step into this elevator. When you do, your body is bathed in the purest, warmest light you can imagine. It soothes your body and flows deeply into every part of you, into every cell.
6. You watch your Angel reach out with the tip of its wing to push one of the glowing buttons on the panel by the door.
7. The elevator door slowly closes. Bathed in light, you and your Angel are slowly rising up into your dreams.
8. If you are working with an affirmation, repeat it now, slowly, several times over.
9. If you would like to ask your Angel a specific question, or seed a particular dream, now is the time to do it.
10. Notice your breathing again. Feel yourself drifting into sleep. Together with your Angel, you are moving up, up, up into the world of dreams.

-Author Unknown