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 32
WHEN OUR TEDDY BEAR IS TAKEN
In her book, "My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend", Dorothy Rowe tells the story of a little boy who loves his teddy bear. In a home of little love, and no peace, his teddy is the one constant – and must always be with him as he sleeps.
One day his older brother takes his teddy and holds it over a bridge, with dark water flowing below. The little boy is in a complete state, for if he loses his teddy he loses himself. His older brother eventually returns his teddy to him, but nothing can be the same again.
The little body has experienced disintegration. He can slowly put the shattered pieces together again, and he will. But from here on, there will always be the fear – the fear that things will shatter again.
He may grow up and forget the bridge, the river and even his teddy, but he will never forget the fear of disintegration; of not existing; of annihilation.
Consider
Your personality exists to protect you from such primal fear, but it is not a foolproof defence.
Although your past is gone from your mind it remains in your body, where everything is remembered, and sometimes you still feel the panic; the spiralling down; the waves of terror.
Who or what reassured you about your existence yesterday?
And who or what made you feel the panic inside?
Sometimes we imagine that if our defences go, then so will we!
But you are not your defences.
They are temporary – you are permanent.
Imagine
Imagine walking free not only from your defences, but from your panic...
Imagine it.
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