Imagine for a moment that you are free to place your focus anywhere, and that you are free to expand your awareness as far as you choose. Feel your awareness now in the center of your brain, resting between the two hemispheres at the seat of consciousness, the gateway, the pineal gland.

Feel the closeness of this space, the proximity of body tissues, the dark stillness, and feel also a sense of spaciousness outside this place. As you become aware of the potential to expand, a lock clicks audibly as the mechanism is released, the filtration system powers down for rest, and the gateway opens.

You are now free to move through and out of this gateway as pure awareness, feeling yourself expand as your focus leaves your physical body and moves gently upward. Feel your awareness expand in a spherical way, effortlessly, until it encompasses your entire body.

Breathe into this space and then allow your awareness to expand once more, gliding outward in all directions until it encompasses the entire planet, hovering just above the surface like atmosphere. Observe your beautiful earth below, and honor your deepest and truest impulse to expand.

Feel your freedom, feel your un-boundedness, feel your limitless nature, feel your boundaries dissolve as you rise above the mental constructs and artificial constraints of the planet to elevate.

Turn the eye of your awareness now toward the depths of space. Breathe into this increase, and feel the sense of spaciousness as your consciousness again expands outward, moving without effort or inertia, gliding past planets and moons and stars, until it encompasses the entire galaxy. Feel the immense spaciousness within the sphere of your awareness, feel the cold stillness of space, the warmth of countless stars, the pulse of life.

Allow your awareness now to gently contract, collecting your energy and your consciousness into a spherical shape that encompasses the milky way galaxy.

Remember this sense of space as your awareness contracts once more, comfortably collecting itself inward, moving to embrace our solar system and then our planet earth. Feel your consciousness rest at the surface of the planet, sensing the atmosphere, observing her life.

Remember this feeling of spaciousness as your awareness moves further inward, contracting into a sphere that surrounds your physical body. Feel yourself smile as your awareness embraces your form, contracting and moving above your head, then entering the gateway, allowing it to gently close behind you.

Feel your awareness now in the center of your brain, fully embodied, retaining a sense of spaciousness and freedom, knowing that the gateway can be opened any time you need.