Frederic Edwin Church |1826-1900 | American painter | Landscape in the Adirondacks | 1847 | 20.3 x 33 cms | 8 x 13 ins | Oil on board
Welcome to, Our Common Welfare group.
If you don’t mind, after I read the Twelve & Twelve literature in the middle of pg 89, I would like to screen share and provide an auxiliary aid to ensure equal opportunity to communicate effectively for someone like me with a sensory disability.
Many of us also like the experience of an occasional retreat from the outside world where we can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation.
And, If you don’t mind my exegesis of the remaining text at the bottom of pg 89 – 90, alternating inventory and meditation.
Once this healthy practice has become grooved it will be so interesting and profitable that the time it takes won’t be missed.
For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self examination and meditation are bound to make all other hours of our day better and happier.
And at length, meditation becomes a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
Before we ask what meditation is, let’s look at the kind of setting in which meditation can do it’s work — like this earth friendly, 3 minute guided meditation.
What did you think of this guided meditation? Were there any connections made?
D.: “I found myself lost in the painting. Can you leave the link in the chat window?”
Ph.: “I resisted the meditation at first, but then I noticed the flowers floating on the water and the weight was lifted.”
W.: “One thing daily meditation helps me do is to leave the world of the flesh, the world of selfishness and vanity. There I make contact with the man I want to be and I bring that goodness to meet the day.
T. S.: “My initial reaction was to fight. Meditation is like learning to play the piano, and if you want to be dazzled, you must practice.”
W: “What a wonderful flashback! I’m deeply touched. I took a a Delacroix painting I had bought 50 years ago back in Monterey, CA, to a dying, lady friend. She was fascinated.
D.: ” Physical activity, like working in the yard and playing golf, is meditation for me. I will start practicing meditation instead of laying down and accepting that I don’t meditate.”
R.: ” My mind is like monkeys on crack. Meditation to me is when I sit in a circle and knit.”
A.: “My first reaction was resistance. Meditating together in community helped me recognize my breath.”
J.B.: ” I read in my daily meditation book that meditation in a closed room was horrible. Meditate outside.”
D.: “This meditation reminded me of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy. Thank you, and I will pick up my nine month clean & sober chip today.”
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