Hello, and welcome to our next lecture on transitions. When I started learning to lead guided meditation some years ago, the hardest part for me to master or the transitions, and that's because it's kind of like a very slow and relaxed relay race where one runner is handing the baton off to another. And so what happens is if you drop the baton in the transition, it messes up the entire meditation itself. So it's very important to have smooth and seamless transitions. So what we're doing is we're breaking the meditation into parts. So there's setting the tone, we have a nice place to lead your meditation.
There's beginning of meditation, and taking your audience into a light meditative state. And then going into a deeper meditative state, finding the starting point, doing the theme of your meditation and ending. And so between each of those parts, there are a few words there's not many But it needs to be in a very smooth and seamless flow to make the transition smooth and to make the meditation nice. Now what happens in a clumsy meditation or you kind of fumble around going from one part to the next what will happen is that will bring your audience out of the meditative state. And you really don't want to do that. And so that compromises the effectiveness of a meditation and a group, maybe you can get away with a little more of it in the middle of a healing session, it can be very debilitating, it can actually throw the whole session off.
And what's infinitely worse than messing up the meditation is that what it can also do is it can reduce the confidence of your audience in you as being a meditator. And so, you really, you don't want to do that. So, you want to have people have the utmost confidence in you and leading this experience and help it having smooth transitions will help pull that off. So associated with this little lecture here are there are some scripts in the The outline in the summary so please check those out. And then we'll move on to some samples of some transitions. So I'll see you there.
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