Sunday, May 4, 2014

Meditation

The biggest drawback to selling my home and living in the Airstream (AS) is the loss of my favorite meditation spot/chair:). The comfortable and large lounge chair and blackout blinds in my bedroom were the perfect combination for meditating; I'd gotten in the habit of meditating morning and evening and looked forward to each. There are more distractions (e.g., road noise, other campers, etc.) and no lounge chair:) in the AS and it isn't conducive to deep or long meditation. While I'm still working on this, opportunities to meditate outside are becoming more frequent. For example, while hiking the Under the Rim trail in the Bryce Canyon Wilderness, I took a break on a large boulder. As I was peeling my small orange the sound of peeling my orange was distinct; there was no wind that day, nobody else on the trail, and the birds had finished their morning singing. After peeling the orange and slowly savoring each wedge, I sat there meditating for awhile, visualizing the beautiful rock formations that surrounded me. If the boulder could have been replaced by my old lounge chair, I could have stayed there for hours:)

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