Hey, so I'm back for the final audio in this series and today's audio is basically an imagination exercise. It's designed to help you to find a safe place in your mind. It's originally used to help people with trauma symptoms, especially if they've had a flashback or a bad dream, but it doesn't have to be used for that reason.

It can also just be used to help you to ground, help you to connect with yourself and take a moment to relax, especially if you're feeling triggered or stressed in some way. So what I want you to do is wherever you're sitting or lying, just take a moment, allow your body to sink into that chair, or onto that bed.

Allow yourself and your body to anchor to whatever you're sitting or lying on. What I'd like you to do now, is imagine a place that feels safe for you. It can be a place from your childhood, a place from the present day, from the here and now - might even be something simple like a bedroom or a living room if that's where you feel safe.

Or it can be an imagined place or a fantasy place where you've never been before. Anywhere that works for you and makes you feel safe and relaxed. Take your time. And imagine that place. Pick one which you think meets this need.

Once you've chosen that safe place, I want you to close your eyes and imagine you are there in that place. Inhabiting that space. You are there. Maybe sitting. Or standing. Or maybe you're lying down. What is the most relaxed for you in this safe space?

Once there, I want you to look around, to drink in your surroundings, and ask yourself the question, what is it that makes you feel this way about this place? It could be anything. Nature, the sound of trees, waves lapping against the shore. A feel of water touching your toes.

What is it that makes you feel so safe there? I want you to really look around you and allow yourself to become more enveloped by it. More relaxed. What can you hear? Maybe it's trees, water, maybe if it's people even that make you feel safe. Children playing. It's whatever it is to you. Let those sounds wash over you, helping you to sink further into safety.

Now I want you to focus on smells. What can you smell in this place? What is it that makes you feel safe about that smell? I want you to feel that safety in your body. This is your space and you can come back to it any time you want to.

Now focus on where in your body you feel it. Maybe it's your stomach or your chest. Go to that space in your body and feel that safe feeling, allowing it to grow, to emanate, sink further. It's possible to take that feeling with you wherever you go.

All I want you to do now is take three deep breaths, almost as if you're giving energy to that place and to yourself within that place. Let's do the breaths together. On the last breath, gently open your eyes and take that feeling with you. As you open your eyes, slowly and gently coming back into the room.

I hope you are able to take this feeling with you for the rest of the day.