Arm Up/Arm Down Set Piece

Please, sit comfortably and put both feet flat on the floor. Lift both hands off of your lap, and extend your arms out in front of you with your palms facing each other. Now, close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in a jacuzzi filled shoulder-deep with bubbling water at the perfect temperature. Imagine your arms feeling buoyant in the water. Notice one arm feeling a little more floaty than the other. I don’t know which one of your arms will float a little more than the other, but you can tell which one feels different. Turn the palm of that floaty arm to face down and gently cup that hand. Let it catch some of the rising bubbles that are coming from the jacuzzi’s bubble jets, trapping a little more air in the cup of your hand, making that arm float a little higher. That’s right, let the arm go, just let it go up with the bubbles, let go of all the tension in that arm as it beginis to float up more and more. Feeling weightless, as light as bubbles. And as that arm begins to float up, feel the other arm becoming more waterlogged, feeling heavier in the water, wet, soaked, sopping, heavy, beginning to sink down a little more, sinking down towards the bottom of the jacuzzi, heavy. It is more and more difficult to hold that arm out anymore as it is getting so heavy now, it just wants to sink like a stone to the bottom of the water, sinking down like a lead anchor, pulling your entire arm down, that arm feeling so tired now, so heavy, and notice as that arm feels heavier in the water, your other arm continues to float higher as it traps more bubbles, becoming lighter and more buoyant, rising up faster towards the surface, shoulder high, higher even, up, up, to the top of the water’s level! That’s right. One arm floating and the other arm sinking, yes, that’s good. The more one arm goes up, the more the other one needs to come down. Yes, you’re doing really well.
And in a few moments I am going to ask you to open your eyes without disturbing your feeling in those arms. When I tell you to open your eyes I want you to just look at those arms and take notice of their position, and when I say “Close your eyes and relax”, you can just let your eyes gently close again and allow both of those arms to drift down gently upon your lap and relax deeply. When those arms reach the bottom, you will be deeply relaxed.