Hafiz-a-fizzle
A day of Silence
Can be a pilgrimage in itself.
A day of Silence
Can help you listen
To the Soul play
Its marvellous lute and drum.
Is not most talking
A crazed defence of a crumbling fort?
I thought we came here
To surrender in Silence,
To yield to Light and Happiness,
To Dance within
In celebration of Love’s Victory!
-Hafiz
In so many of my blog travelings, I read about people working on their meditation practices. Put my name on that list, too. Again and again I come back to it, but it isn't steady. The intention is there, now I just have to follow through on it!
Hafiz-a-fizzle
Here's a meditation practice for today. It's a sequence and it's definitely yoga. A bit different than usual, but maybe I'll do more in the future.
- Imagine one of an object, person, or thing that you love, hold dearly, think is beautiful.
- Pause for 30 seconds-1 minute
- Take this time to really see the object, person, or thing. See it in space, see it from different angles, the texture, shape. Hold it in your mind's eye.
- Imagine five of the object, person, or thing that you love, hold dearly, think is beautiful. It is the one thing, but 5 of them/it.
- Pause for 30 seconds-1 minute
- Take this time to really see the object, person, or thing. See it in space, see it from different angles, the texture, shape. View how it interacts with the each other, or if it does.
- Continue this process, moving from 5 to 50 to 5000 to 5,000,000
- Take the breaks in between each increase to give enough time for the mind to expand with the ever increasing number. Really try to visual each number. What space is it located in? What surrounds it? Go through the where, what, who, and hows, maintaining a clear picture.
- Finally, imagine an infinite number of the object, person, or thing. This thing you love, hold dearly, think is beautiful, repeated to infinity.
- Allow the mind expand to the infinite.
- Continue meditating on the concept of infinity for the next 5-15 minutes (or however long feels comfortable)
