Congratulations on your progress in learning to stop, breathe and be! ! You are a soul, on a meditative journey through your mental forest. Since beginning this meditative journey you have heard mumbling in your brain , but you kept walking. For almost a month you have been walking on a path through your own personality – – you have been persistent. Congratulations on your persistence!
You made a commitment to continue the meditative journey even though you weren’t quite sure where it would lead you. You have kept walking, through your mind. Congratulations on your discipline!
Funny thing about going on a walk through a forest. When you first begin, you can hear the birds in the trees, the rustle of the leaves, the crunching sound of pine cones or broken branches under your feet. But after a while, the sounds in the forest begin to fade into the background. And you begin to enter a silence, inside yourself.
Many times when I was walking through Central Park in New York City, although I was surrounded by the sounds of laughter, cheering, music and even drumming, after a while I would begin to hear my own footsteps.
The questions stomping around in my mind would begin to get quiet as I kept walking. I learned to hear the silence. Congratulations you are on the path to discovering the silence!
Explore the meditative power of walking for at least 5, 10, or 15 minutes a day, as a meditation. Walking can become a dance, where your body is in motion, but deep inside you there is a a stillness. Outside you’re walking, inside you’re sitting in stillness. Over the past month you may have been waiting for For something to happen. Yes, you may have been a bit restless at times, wanting to get up and quit. But you didn’t. Congratulations on discovering stillness!
For the past month you provided your body an opportunity for your heart to slow its beat, your breath to slow down, the muscles in your body to rest and your nerves to relax. Congratulations on giving your body the benefit of recuperation.
Now you have stopped walking through your mind and you’re wondering what progress you’ve made. When one takes a walk for relaxation, there is not necessarily a destination. It is simply the walk, for the sake of walking.
The essence of meditation is the discipline to do it regularly, to experience stillness and silence and to give your body a breather. You accomplished that through persistence, and patience — that all adds up to progress!
Life is a journey — enjoy it! None of us are quite sure where we are going! But day by day we progress. Walk into 2021 with an inner sense of peace, harmony and anticipate progress for all of humanity! 🌹TogetherWeGrow🌹