How to use the meditations
1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.
3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.
4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.
5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record. |
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MEDITATION 6
THE BLUE SKY AND THE CLOUDS
Today, in our meditation, we will imagine ourselves outdoors.
Perhaps you wish you were; perhaps you are glad you're not.
But when did you last see a big expanse of sky?
Or stand and watch the clouds?
This is where we are today, looking at a big expanse of sky – and the clouds.
Meditate
You are looking at the clouds.
What are they like? What is the atmosphere they create?
Clouds are variable, like our emotions. They keep changing, adjusting in colour and type.
They can look so solid and opaque; the way they can dominate the scene sometimes.
Though in fact they are 99 per cent empty.
The appearance of solidity is a trick of reflected light on the water droplets.
As we look at the sky, there is not much we can do about it. Sometimes it is blue, and sometimes it isn't.
How does it look today?
Sometimes things change.
Sometimes the warmth of the sunlight dissolves the moisture of the clouds. Nature's alchemy – and the sky revealed is blue.
It is good that our soul is sky blue; though clouds do pass through.
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