One thing I need to do more of is meditate.
These days, I'm on a serious quest to find a meditation technique that I feel most comfortable with. I've been reading a lot, listening to a lot of audio books and searching the Web wanting to get an ideas I can try for myself.
One of the things I want to do is spend the next year trying out every meditation in the book Meditation Week by Week: 52 Meditations to Help You Grow in Peace and Awareness. Every Monday, I will post the meditation instructions and every Sunday I'll post about my experience using the meditation.
Meditation 1: Become Conscious of the Environment:
Sit comfortably, and allow your eyes to travel around the garden or open space in which you are sitting. Try to avoid thinking about what you are seeing when you do this. Simply look. Take it the colors, the shapes of everything you see and the relation of each object to the surroundings, including the empty space surrounding and defining it. Don't forget to look up and down as well as from side to side. Look at the panorama for the first time as if seeing it for the first time. Don't label or judge anything you see. If thoughts come to mind, try gently to let them go.
Now, switch attention to your hearing. Focus upon sounds without trying to identify them. Then do the same with tactile sensations--the warmth of the sun, the feel of the breeze, the touch of the grass.
Finally, try to take in sights, sounds and sensations all together; again try not to let thoughts intrude.
These days, I'm on a serious quest to find a meditation technique that I feel most comfortable with. I've been reading a lot, listening to a lot of audio books and searching the Web wanting to get an ideas I can try for myself.
One of the things I want to do is spend the next year trying out every meditation in the book Meditation Week by Week: 52 Meditations to Help You Grow in Peace and Awareness. Every Monday, I will post the meditation instructions and every Sunday I'll post about my experience using the meditation.
Meditation 1: Become Conscious of the Environment:
Sit comfortably, and allow your eyes to travel around the garden or open space in which you are sitting. Try to avoid thinking about what you are seeing when you do this. Simply look. Take it the colors, the shapes of everything you see and the relation of each object to the surroundings, including the empty space surrounding and defining it. Don't forget to look up and down as well as from side to side. Look at the panorama for the first time as if seeing it for the first time. Don't label or judge anything you see. If thoughts come to mind, try gently to let them go.
Now, switch attention to your hearing. Focus upon sounds without trying to identify them. Then do the same with tactile sensations--the warmth of the sun, the feel of the breeze, the touch of the grass.
Finally, try to take in sights, sounds and sensations all together; again try not to let thoughts intrude.
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