Visualization for Connecting with Animal Totems (Speak in a calm, reassuring voice) Close your eyes and visualize a white light streaming down from above you,  encompassing you in a cone of White Light.  This is a protective Source that will keep you safe and protected at all times.  Only your Guides, Angels, Animal Totems and Beings of Higher Intent who wish to protect, guide or instruct you,  will be allowed any contact or interaction with you at all. (Spoken in a gentle, relaxed voice, speaking clearly and slowly) Now begin to feel your body relax, each muscle relaxing, tension slipping effortlessly away. Breathe deeply, and with each breath in, feel your body relax more and more. With each exhale, you feel the tension slipping away. I will begin counting from one to five, and with each number that you hear, you will drift deeper and deeper into a state of complete relaxation.  When I reach five, you will be in a deep, meditative state in which the images will come easily and effortlessly to you. One, going deeper and deeper, feeling your body relax. Two, deeper still, feeling the muscles in your body relax. Three, as you go deeper into a state of relaxation, your heart, mind and soul are open to the positive experience of encountering your Totem Animal. Four, deeper and deeper, getting closer now. Five. You are in a state of deep relaxation, safe and protected by the White Light and can awaken at any moment if needed, yet you are comfortable, peaceful and so relaxed. Envision yourself now, getting up from where you are and walking to your back door.  You open the back door and as you look outside, the scene is not the usual familiar one.  Instead, you have been transported through time and space to a magical place, another plane or dimensional experience. All around you is a lush and rich rain forest, abundant with trees, ferns, and flora of all kinds. As you step away from the familiar surrounding of your home and walk into this garden paradise, you can feel the warmth of the Sun enveloping you in golden light, can smell the scent of pine and intoxicating flowers in bloom. Walking through the forest now, you marvel at how the sunlight streams through the canopy above the forest floor, creating ribbons of dancing light and speckling the surrounding flora.   (The following depends upon whether one has a Totem that walks, flies or swims.  Choose the appropriate story line and tape only that story line onto audio tape.  For land animals such as Wolf, Bear, etc., record the following instructions.  Instructions for meeting Ocean/Water Totems or Air Totems will be further outlined below.)