It is sometimes difficult to meditate in a world filled with technology and noise. I live in an apartment and a neighbor slamming a door can startle me out of a light trance very easily. One of the things I have found very helpful is a mp3 player and some inexpensive binaural and shamanic recordings. The ear buds muffle some outside noise and the music covers the rest. It leaves me more relaxed and more able to follow my mind where it goes. It's also a good tool for timing your meditation sessions. Good luck and happy travels!
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Ruined City
As you wander through the Otherworld, the road takes you far from places you are familiar with. It passes through forest, dark and wild. The road here is cracked and weedy. As you walk, you begin to notice signs of habitation. Worn, unreadable way markers stand uselessly by the road. Fences, broken and rotting, now hold nothing back. This is the pathway to the Ruined City.
The Ruined City is one of the infinite possibilities of your journey. This a place of reflection, where all of the broken, worn out and unnecessary pieces of you come to rest. Once, this place was bustling with activity, but now it is silent. nature is taking back the land as the buildings and roads crumble to dust. Once neat and ordered gardens have overgrown. Broken crockery and rotting furniture, once useful objects, litter the ground. No one used this place in a long while.
Walk around this city. Explore the buildings and take note of what has been left behind. These are symbols of things you have left behind in your life- old ideas, people, hopes, fears and behaviors. Nearly everything you find in this place should stay here. You outgrew these things, or their time has long since passed, but look closely. Occasionally, a treasured piece of ourself gets left behind in the Ruined City. Maybe an old idea, one that you had forgotten, has been waiting for your return. Maybe memories or good feelings are here, yours to dust off and take back with you.
Spend as much time as you need in the Ruined City. Remembering is a healthy step towards moving forward in life. This place can be visited periodically, as way to gauge how much you have changed. It can also be a powerful reminder of what you don't need in your life.
The Ruined City is one of the infinite possibilities of your journey. This a place of reflection, where all of the broken, worn out and unnecessary pieces of you come to rest. Once, this place was bustling with activity, but now it is silent. nature is taking back the land as the buildings and roads crumble to dust. Once neat and ordered gardens have overgrown. Broken crockery and rotting furniture, once useful objects, litter the ground. No one used this place in a long while.
Walk around this city. Explore the buildings and take note of what has been left behind. These are symbols of things you have left behind in your life- old ideas, people, hopes, fears and behaviors. Nearly everything you find in this place should stay here. You outgrew these things, or their time has long since passed, but look closely. Occasionally, a treasured piece of ourself gets left behind in the Ruined City. Maybe an old idea, one that you had forgotten, has been waiting for your return. Maybe memories or good feelings are here, yours to dust off and take back with you.
Spend as much time as you need in the Ruined City. Remembering is a healthy step towards moving forward in life. This place can be visited periodically, as way to gauge how much you have changed. It can also be a powerful reminder of what you don't need in your life.
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