forest Meditation
I teach forest meditation. This is a style that I have specifically adapted for the forest environment and a few days stay in the forest. I offer at least one session of this forest meditation to each person who visits here, and the response has fortunately been positive in most cases.
The purpose of this forest meditation is to better enjoy the forest, and to better enjoy whatever peace and quiet that can come to you in the session.
The technique is simple, yet effective.
We go on a silent walk along my forest trails, and pause at places with a good view.
Focus all your attention on what you can see and hear – images, colour and form, tree trunks, canopy, distant views, birds, rocks, bird calls and especially the sound of the wind in the leaves, ... instead of thoughts about what you can see or hear
As thoughts arise, as they will do soon enough, gently but firmly return your attention to sights and sounds. Remain in the present, in the Now.
Allow whatever sense of ease, release or peace to arise, and appreciate that.
Try to connect with the essence or spirit of Mother Nature, as the Source of all life. Try to see the beauty in ordinary, unspoiled Nature.
This is based on the technique of the great meditation Teacher in Perth, WA – Eric Harrison. It is “sensing not thinking.”
The purpose of this forest meditation is to better enjoy the forest, and to better enjoy whatever peace and quiet that can come to you in the session.
But if you would like to become a meditation student, with at least some determination to become a meditation adept like me, then you need to know what the long term objective of this meditation is.
For this meditation is rooted in Buddhist philosophy, from my extensive background in that religion. So the ultimate goal of my meditation is to restore, renew and return to the enlightened state, as much as you can, as often as you can whenever you can in your daily life.
If spiritual enlightenment is your interest, then read my webpage on "Healing and Spiritual Enlightenment"
