February 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Discover the transformative power of stepping off the beaten path as I recount my enriching travels through India's spiritual heartland, Tamil Nadu. Join me in exploring how this journey offered more than just sights and sounds—it provided profound lessons in embracing uniqueness amidst unfamiliar surroundings. Feel the pulse of Bhakti yoga and the grace found in temple rituals, while also reflecting on newfound appreciations for everyday freedoms. This episode marks a fresh chapter as I return to share these insights with you, inviting you to see the world through a lens of gratitude and wonder.
Venture with me into the contrasts of life's harsh realities and awe-inspiring beauty, experienced during a night pilgrimage near Shiva's mountain. Walk barefoot with me along chaotic roads, face fears, and witness both the struggles and splendor of life firsthand. From nostalgic visits to Kovalam Beach to the calming practice of water gazing meditation, this episode invites you to embrace life's unfolding without labels. Reflect on the lessons life offers daily as we draw parallels between the fluidity of water and our own journeys. Plus, explore how online energy healing sessions can further nourish your spirit, helping you find balance and tranquility.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So welcome, dear listeners, and we are now at the
start of February and I havereturned from my travels.
If my voice sounds slightlycroaky, I seem to have picked up
some plane flu on the way.
I'm feeling better than I wasyesterday, but I really wanted
to share a podcast of myadventures and thank you for
being so patient whilst I wasn'ton air for the last three, four
(00:24):
weeks.
But I've returned from mytravels and it was an experience
.
At times it was dangerous, attimes it was joyful and at times
it was beautiful.
It was tough loving all theemotions and feelings together.
I felt really healthy, I gotreally sick, it was kind of all
(00:49):
things and more, and I havereturned feeling like I can't
really describe how I feel.
It's been over 20 years since Imade a similar journey, but this
journey was a bit differentbecause the place that we went
(01:11):
or the places, rather, that wewent was so off the beaten track
and I um can't really put itinto words, but I'm gonna do my
best because this is a podcast.
But firstly, I just wonder howyou've all been and how your
January has been as we now getinto February and for some
(01:34):
people the earth starts to warmup a bit or the first signs of
spring start to emerge,depending on which part of the
world you live in.
If not, it will be the firstsigns of autumn.
Either way, it's a time ofgreat change, and I would say
that the Kapha period, which isgenerally where I live from
(02:00):
January through to spring, is avery big time of change because
it can a bit like my journeythat I've just been on, have
everything at once.
So have one experience maybesunshine one day and the next
day it feels completelydifferent, whereas on my trip I
(02:20):
had the feeling of joy one dayand the next day the feeling of
fear.
And how does one navigatethrough that at the same time as
having compassion for oneself,which is always an important
factor in all of this and totake the trials and tribulations
of life, whereas when one'sbeen on an experience that's
(02:43):
different.
To come back into the world andnavigate through it when you've
got you can't do somethingdifferent and then see things
with the same lens.
In my experience, that's quitea difficult or impossible thing
to do.
It's not what I feel we'remeant to do either when we've
got a fresh perspective on life.
And one of the things I reallyenjoyed is when I actually came
(03:07):
back and I appreciated all thefreedoms and joys that I
overlooked in my everyday life,that I have here, and the
autonomy that I overlooked.
But when we're traveling, wedon have the the normal autonomy
that we have when we're at home, where it is all new and
(03:29):
everything's so different and wehave to put a lot of trust into
um other people as well asourselves, which is something
that may or may not come to younaturally and yeah.
So I thought I would do aseries of weeks where we're
going to talk about the lessonsI learned from India, and I've
(03:51):
also got three amazing gueststhat are lined up, so I am going
to have guests again.
As you know, I lost somerelatives and I actually lost
someone who's really dear to mejust before I went on my trip to
India, which was very sad, butthat is life as well,
unfortunately, but I digress abit, but I feel that I'm ready
(04:14):
now to have guests on the showagain, as well as doing
self-hosted ones.
So, lessons from India.
So one of the biggest lessonsthat I learned was the power to
be seen as we went on a off thebeaten track spiritual tour of
(04:34):
the temples in Tamil Nadu.
So as we did this navigationthrough rural parts of Tamil
Nadu and my partner wasreconnecting with um, his
ancestors and the people, I hadlike a mixed reception from
(04:54):
people.
They were either nice to me and, um, the children like were
fascinated and they would likesay hello and um, this nice lady
asked if she could take myphotograph, but then there were
some times when people weren'tso nice to me and I couldn't be
seen from the judgment of what Ilooked like.
(05:15):
I was very respectful when Iwent into the temples and I do
follow spiritual practices and,um, there was only one temple
that actually turned me away.
They were.
The rest of the temples werevery kind and open and it was a
(05:36):
bit awkward sometimes queuingand having everybody stare at me
, but then the lesson I learnedfrom it was like you know what,
the power to be seen and just beyourself, and and so what if I?
What if I stood out, and andand so what?
People were looking at me andand maybe they're just looking
out of curiosity and you knowwhat.
(05:57):
So be it.
But for a bit of time it felt abit strange when I went into
restaurants, um, because Iwasn't fairly rural places and
people would just stop eatingfor a minute, look and then go
back to their eating.
And my partner pointed out Iwas experiencing what he had to
(06:20):
experience most of his life indifferent places.
And, yeah, it was definitelyeye-opening experience.
And the other lesson that I wantto share today that I learned
was the power of kind of graceand faith and the, the bhakti,
(06:41):
um, devotional yoga experience,the, the bhakti, the devotion
that I saw, um, all in thetemples and and people would
queue for hours just to stay atthese deities and and they were
beautiful, of course, but atfirst I kind of didn't fully
appreciate it.
(07:02):
And then some places they werejust rushy through because there
was so many people.
But then there was one placeand I think it was Durga, and I
got to stare at the Durga statuefor a bit of time and I just
felt this overwhelming orbeautiful sense of love and
(07:26):
presence and then it kind of Igot why the people did it and
and the devotion and the beauty,the beauty of it.
That's not to say that Ienjoyed going to all the temples
um, I didn't.
Some of them I did.
I really found the, the Babajiplace that we went to in the
(07:50):
countryside beautiful, and therewas a really nice man there who
had spent time in the UK and um, I went to.
I went to this other smalltemple as well, which is the
saint.
There's a saint that has lotsof light and, um, and he, the
priest there also gave me someadvice and I found that really
(08:13):
moving and they were so therewas real kindness and I was in
this temple and I wasn't feelcomfortable and this lady put a
hand on my back just to make mefeel um at ease and um, I saw
her when it came out and we justlike smiled at each other and
that was really beautiful.
So there's really beautifulmoments.
(08:34):
But then there was like hardmoments.
Like we're doing a nightpilgrimage around the city at
the base of Shiva's Shiva'smountain, and the road felt
dirty and dusty and I had likereally sore feet, because I'm
one of these people that likesto have my shoes on like all the
(08:55):
time, apart from in the summerwhere I walk on the grass, but
generally I have my shoes on allthe time and they didn't really
get on too well with the shoes.
I tried various slip-on shoesand my feet got really cut and
then there was mosquitoes andI'd forgotten to take my must,
bring some mosquito or rathermalaria stuff, and I got really
(09:21):
into the mind thinking that Iwas going to die either from,
like the germs going into thecuts in my feet or I was going
to get malaria or something likethat.
And it was quite tough.
Um, there was other peopledoing the tour but it was night
time and there was there waspeople like sleeping on the on
(09:42):
the streets and there's lots ofwild dogs.
And then I saw, like this, thisum baby puppy that was dead
curled up, which was quite sad.
And then I saw like a cow andthe owners for some reason had
put like um limbs of some deadanimal over the top of this,
(10:03):
these, these cows which shouldhave painted that.
I didn't fully understand thatand I think sometimes questions
are best not asked.
Um, and then you're walkingalong and it was kind of late,
and there was this child thatwas walking along a tightrope,
guessing at the parents requestlike for money, and again I was
(10:25):
thinking I'm not gonna judge,and then part of me thought that
child should be in bed, butthen I thought who am I to kind
of dictate or decide what, whatis right and wrong in this
situation.
And then we walked past, likethis great, big fenced area.
It reminded me a bit likeJurassic Park movie and it had a
picture of elephants in it andthey said, please keep out,
(10:47):
entry at your own risk.
This is our terrain.
And I walked past this forquite some time and there was
like what did I see?
It was huge, absolutely huge.
It looked like a wild boar, butit was so much bigger it didn't
(11:09):
see me, but for a moment wewere kind of walking along
together, him or her, frominside this fenced area which
was protecting wildlife, me onthe other side, and it was such
a gift to see it, such amajestic creature Don't get me
wrong, I wouldn't have liked tobe right next to it because I'm
(11:29):
not stupid, but it was reallybeautiful.
And then I also got to seethese beautiful deers, and these
deers were different to theones you get in the UK.
They had really big kind ofears and they'd come to the edge
and my theory was that perhapsthese creatures would come right
close to the fence because theyknew, like their predators
(11:50):
wouldn't come that close becauseof, like humans being on the
other side.
That was my theory anyway.
So I experienced so much beautybut then pain, like people
sleeping on the streets, um,like animals foraging through
piles of rubbish, um, beautifulglasses, or rather, um, it was
(12:14):
like fresh sugarcane juice whichyou could have, and then my
partner, who's always eaten nuts, tried some nuts and then he
had like an allergy reaction tothat, and so, as you can see,
there was bits where it was kindof beautiful, but then there
was bits that were likedangerous as well, and there was
(12:35):
one time there was only onetime that I didn't feel safe,
and so I decided to stay in thehotel, but it was a number of
factors.
It was also the same day as afuneral of a loved one, and this
town felt a lot harsher thanthe others, but either it was
harsher or it was the lens thatI was perceiving it, but
(12:56):
generally, um, I got on with itall and and um, yeah, and then
what was so beautiful was that Igot to um, I'll tell you more
about this tour in the podcast,but just to say that at the end
of the tour, I got to go toCovilland Beach, and I hadn't
been there for 21 years and Iused to.
(13:18):
When I was a yoga student, Iused to get one day a week off
from the ashram and we wouldtravel there in a taxi and sit
on the beach and study, and itwould be like heaven.
Because every week I'll bethinking, oh, what food can I
have?
That isn't the ashram food.
But my stomach had shrank somuch that I'd only ever managed
one meal on that beach.
(13:39):
But I tell you what that wouldbe like, the the highlight of my
week, um, and really made mehelp appreciate things.
And I went there and it changeda bit.
Like they built a bit of apromenade, just a small one, and
it had changed a bit, but itstill kind of had that kind of
essence.
There was more tourists therebut it still had regained its
(14:02):
charm.
When we went there was hardlyanyone there and we just used to
sit near the fishing boats whenthey were like on the sand and
and study there and.
But now there was more tourists, but it was.
It was really nice to kind ofgo back and revisit that.
So the purpose of this podcastwas, and why I'm sharing this
story, is to show that there'sone can experience a whole load
(14:24):
of things and one can get hungup with labelness.
Is I like this?
I don't like this, and thebiggest lesson I learned was to
experience life as it unfolded,which wasn't always easy because
, again, we like to label things, but that's what I found really
helped me.
So I just wonder is thereanything that you can do this
(14:47):
week where you can just maybehave a few minutes each day and
just either review your day orat the end of the day, or review
your day the next morning, um,the previous day, the next
morning and just think what,what was it that?
What was the lesson that Ilearned from allowing myself?
So what was the lesson that Ilearned from allowing myself to
(15:10):
experience so many things in somany ways?
And for today's meditation,let's have a glass of water in
front of us.
Top tips for the meditation iseither sit nice and cross-legged
(15:31):
on the floor with a nicestraight back always nice to sit
on a block or a cushion, orthat's not available for you.
You sit in a chair with theback nice and straight.
The important thing is you'renot slouching, and if you're
doing something that requires alittle concentration, all you
need to do is just pause thisand you can reconvene the
meditation at a time that isgood for you.
(15:53):
If you're doing the meditation,let's begin.
So for today's meditation,you'll just need a glass of
water in front of us.
So let's begin.
So, as you sit up, have thiswater in front of you at a level
that you can see with your eyes, either straight ahead on a
(16:14):
table or if you're looking down,then you're looking down, but
just have that glass of waterthere and we're just going to
inhale and we're going to exhaleand we're just going to look at
that glass of water.
Perhaps it doesn't matter howfar you filled it up, but just
(16:35):
observe without judgment.
What is the texture like ofthis water?
Is it still?
Is there any odd bubble thathappens in it?
Or perhaps it's completelystill?
Is this water clear or is itslightly murky?
How does it sit within thecontainer?
(16:59):
How does it sit?
So this water, as you stare atit, can represent the present
moment.
Sometimes we feel that thingsdon't change or they become
(17:20):
stagnant, but if we just observethe water a bit more, you will
see that there is life within it.
You will see that there is lifewithin it Water, the life force
that nourishes us so much, socalmly and so deeply, why this
(17:44):
can be a symbol for life.
Things can be still or appearto be still, but there's still
life unfolding within that glass.
So we're just going to look atthis glass for a few more
minutes.
Just try and observe theentirety of this glass.
(18:09):
So I'm going to go ahead andget the camera out of the way.
(19:34):
So now just gently tip theglass a little bit and see how
life can move.
For this may seem like anordinary glass of water, but if
you were to boil it, it wouldmake steam.
If you were to freeze the waterin an ice cube tray, it would
(19:56):
make ice.
If it's fresh drinking waterand you were to drink it, it
would nourish your being.
You can wash with the water.
The water is a life force, abit like your everyday life.
So come back to this watergazing meditation whenever you
want to experience with calmnessthe entirety of life.
(20:21):
So thank you for listening andI'll speak to you very soon.
And, as always, if you wouldlike an online energy healing,
then do reach out to us.
So welcome, dear listeners, and we are now at the
start of February and I havereturned from my travels.
If my voice sounds slightlycroaky, I seem to have picked up
some plane flu on the way.
I'm feeling better than I wasyesterday, but I really wanted
to share a podcast of myadventures and thank you for
being so patient whilst I wasn'ton air for the last three, four
(00:24):
weeks.
But I've returned from mytravels and it was an experience
.
At times it was dangerous, attimes it was joyful and at times
it was beautiful.
It was tough loving all theemotions and feelings together.
I felt really healthy, I gotreally sick, it was kind of all
(00:49):
things and more, and I havereturned feeling like I can't
really describe how I feel.
It's been over 20 years since Imade a similar journey, but this
journey was a bit differentbecause the place that we went
(01:11):
or the places, rather, that wewent was so off the beaten track
and I um can't really put itinto words, but I'm gonna do my
best because this is a podcast.
But firstly, I just wonder howyou've all been and how your
January has been as we now getinto February and for some
(01:34):
people the earth starts to warmup a bit or the first signs of
spring start to emerge,depending on which part of the
world you live in.
If not, it will be the firstsigns of autumn.
Either way, it's a time ofgreat change, and I would say
that the Kapha period, which isgenerally where I live from
(02:00):
January through to spring, is avery big time of change because
it can a bit like my journeythat I've just been on, have
everything at once.
So have one experience maybesunshine one day and the next
day it feels completelydifferent, whereas on my trip I
(02:20):
had the feeling of joy one dayand the next day the feeling of
fear.
And how does one navigatethrough that at the same time as
having compassion for oneself,which is always an important
factor in all of this and totake the trials and tribulations
of life, whereas when one'sbeen on an experience that's
(02:43):
different.
To come back into the world andnavigate through it when you've
got you can't do somethingdifferent and then see things
with the same lens.
In my experience, that's quitea difficult or impossible thing
to do.
It's not what I feel we'remeant to do either when we've
got a fresh perspective on life.
And one of the things I reallyenjoyed is when I actually came
(03:07):
back and I appreciated all thefreedoms and joys that I
overlooked in my everyday life,that I have here, and the
autonomy that I overlooked.
But when we're traveling, wedon have the the normal autonomy
that we have when we're at home, where it is all new and
(03:29):
everything's so different and wehave to put a lot of trust into
um other people as well asourselves, which is something
that may or may not come to younaturally and yeah.
So I thought I would do aseries of weeks where we're
going to talk about the lessonsI learned from India, and I've
(03:51):
also got three amazing gueststhat are lined up, so I am going
to have guests again.
As you know, I lost somerelatives and I actually lost
someone who's really dear to mejust before I went on my trip to
India, which was very sad, butthat is life as well,
unfortunately, but I digress abit, but I feel that I'm ready
(04:14):
now to have guests on the showagain, as well as doing
self-hosted ones.
So, lessons from India.
So one of the biggest lessonsthat I learned was the power to
be seen as we went on a off thebeaten track spiritual tour of
(04:34):
the temples in Tamil Nadu.
So as we did this navigationthrough rural parts of Tamil
Nadu and my partner wasreconnecting with um, his
ancestors and the people, I hadlike a mixed reception from
(04:54):
people.
They were either nice to me and, um, the children like were
fascinated and they would likesay hello and um, this nice lady
asked if she could take myphotograph, but then there were
some times when people weren'tso nice to me and I couldn't be
seen from the judgment of what Ilooked like.
(05:15):
I was very respectful when Iwent into the temples and I do
follow spiritual practices and,um, there was only one temple
that actually turned me away.
They were.
The rest of the temples werevery kind and open and it was a
(05:36):
bit awkward sometimes queuingand having everybody stare at me
, but then the lesson I learnedfrom it was like you know what,
the power to be seen and just beyourself, and and so what if I?
What if I stood out, and andand so what?
People were looking at me andand maybe they're just looking
out of curiosity and you knowwhat.
(05:57):
So be it.
But for a bit of time it felt abit strange when I went into
restaurants, um, because Iwasn't fairly rural places and
people would just stop eatingfor a minute, look and then go
back to their eating.
And my partner pointed out Iwas experiencing what he had to
(06:20):
experience most of his life indifferent places.
And, yeah, it was definitelyeye-opening experience.
And the other lesson that I wantto share today that I learned
was the power of kind of graceand faith and the, the bhakti,
(06:41):
um, devotional yoga experience,the, the bhakti, the devotion
that I saw, um, all in thetemples and and people would
queue for hours just to stay atthese deities and and they were
beautiful, of course, but atfirst I kind of didn't fully
appreciate it.
(07:02):
And then some places they werejust rushy through because there
was so many people.
But then there was one placeand I think it was Durga, and I
got to stare at the Durga statuefor a bit of time and I just
felt this overwhelming orbeautiful sense of love and
(07:26):
presence and then it kind of Igot why the people did it and
and the devotion and the beauty,the beauty of it.
That's not to say that Ienjoyed going to all the temples
um, I didn't.
Some of them I did.
I really found the, the Babajiplace that we went to in the
(07:50):
countryside beautiful, and therewas a really nice man there who
had spent time in the UK and um, I went to.
I went to this other smalltemple as well, which is the
saint.
There's a saint that has lotsof light and, um, and he, the
priest there also gave me someadvice and I found that really
(08:13):
moving and they were so therewas real kindness and I was in
this temple and I wasn't feelcomfortable and this lady put a
hand on my back just to make mefeel um at ease and um, I saw
her when it came out and we justlike smiled at each other and
that was really beautiful.
So there's really beautifulmoments.
(08:34):
But then there was like hardmoments.
Like we're doing a nightpilgrimage around the city at
the base of Shiva's Shiva'smountain, and the road felt
dirty and dusty and I had likereally sore feet, because I'm
one of these people that likesto have my shoes on like all the
(08:55):
time, apart from in the summerwhere I walk on the grass, but
generally I have my shoes on allthe time and they didn't really
get on too well with the shoes.
I tried various slip-on shoesand my feet got really cut and
then there was mosquitoes andI'd forgotten to take my must,
bring some mosquito or rathermalaria stuff, and I got really
(09:21):
into the mind thinking that Iwas going to die either from,
like the germs going into thecuts in my feet or I was going
to get malaria or something likethat.
And it was quite tough.
Um, there was other peopledoing the tour but it was night
time and there was there waspeople like sleeping on the on
(09:42):
the streets and there's lots ofwild dogs.
And then I saw, like this, thisum baby puppy that was dead
curled up, which was quite sad.
And then I saw like a cow andthe owners for some reason had
put like um limbs of some deadanimal over the top of this,
(10:03):
these, these cows which shouldhave painted that.
I didn't fully understand thatand I think sometimes questions
are best not asked.
Um, and then you're walkingalong and it was kind of late,
and there was this child thatwas walking along a tightrope,
guessing at the parents requestlike for money, and again I was
(10:25):
thinking I'm not gonna judge,and then part of me thought that
child should be in bed, butthen I thought who am I to kind
of dictate or decide what, whatis right and wrong in this
situation.
And then we walked past, likethis great, big fenced area.
It reminded me a bit likeJurassic Park movie and it had a
picture of elephants in it andthey said, please keep out,
(10:47):
entry at your own risk.
This is our terrain.
And I walked past this forquite some time and there was
like what did I see?
It was huge, absolutely huge.
It looked like a wild boar, butit was so much bigger it didn't
(11:09):
see me, but for a moment wewere kind of walking along
together, him or her, frominside this fenced area which
was protecting wildlife, me onthe other side, and it was such
a gift to see it, such amajestic creature Don't get me
wrong, I wouldn't have liked tobe right next to it because I'm
(11:29):
not stupid, but it was reallybeautiful.
And then I also got to seethese beautiful deers, and these
deers were different to theones you get in the UK.
They had really big kind ofears and they'd come to the edge
and my theory was that perhapsthese creatures would come right
close to the fence because theyknew, like their predators
(11:50):
wouldn't come that close becauseof, like humans being on the
other side.
That was my theory anyway.
So I experienced so much beautybut then pain, like people
sleeping on the streets, um,like animals foraging through
piles of rubbish, um, beautifulglasses, or rather, um, it was
(12:14):
like fresh sugarcane juice whichyou could have, and then my
partner, who's always eaten nuts, tried some nuts and then he
had like an allergy reaction tothat, and so, as you can see,
there was bits where it was kindof beautiful, but then there
was bits that were likedangerous as well, and there was
(12:35):
one time there was only onetime that I didn't feel safe,
and so I decided to stay in thehotel, but it was a number of
factors.
It was also the same day as afuneral of a loved one, and this
town felt a lot harsher thanthe others, but either it was
harsher or it was the lens thatI was perceiving it, but
(12:56):
generally, um, I got on with itall and and um, yeah, and then
what was so beautiful was that Igot to um, I'll tell you more
about this tour in the podcast,but just to say that at the end
of the tour, I got to go toCovilland Beach, and I hadn't
been there for 21 years and Iused to.
(13:18):
When I was a yoga student, Iused to get one day a week off
from the ashram and we wouldtravel there in a taxi and sit
on the beach and study, and itwould be like heaven.
Because every week I'll bethinking, oh, what food can I
have?
That isn't the ashram food.
But my stomach had shrank somuch that I'd only ever managed
one meal on that beach.
(13:39):
But I tell you what that wouldbe like, the the highlight of my
week, um, and really made mehelp appreciate things.
And I went there and it changeda bit.
Like they built a bit of apromenade, just a small one, and
it had changed a bit, but itstill kind of had that kind of
essence.
There was more tourists therebut it still had regained its
(14:02):
charm.
When we went there was hardlyanyone there and we just used to
sit near the fishing boats whenthey were like on the sand and
and study there and.
But now there was more tourists, but it was.
It was really nice to kind ofgo back and revisit that.
So the purpose of this podcastwas, and why I'm sharing this
story, is to show that there'sone can experience a whole load
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of things and one can get hungup with labelness.
Is I like this?
I don't like this, and thebiggest lesson I learned was to
experience life as it unfolded,which wasn't always easy because
, again, we like to label things, but that's what I found really
helped me.
So I just wonder is thereanything that you can do this
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week where you can just maybehave a few minutes each day and
just either review your day orat the end of the day, or review
your day the next morning, um,the previous day, the next
morning and just think what,what was it that?
What was the lesson that Ilearned from allowing myself?
So what was the lesson that Ilearned from allowing myself to
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experience so many things in somany ways?
And for today's meditation,let's have a glass of water in
front of us.
Top tips for the meditation iseither sit nice and cross-legged
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on the floor with a nicestraight back always nice to sit
on a block or a cushion, orthat's not available for you.
You sit in a chair with theback nice and straight.
The important thing is you'renot slouching, and if you're
doing something that requires alittle concentration, all you
need to do is just pause thisand you can reconvene the
meditation at a time that isgood for you.
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If you're doing the meditation,let's begin.
So for today's meditation,you'll just need a glass of
water in front of us.
So let's begin.
So, as you sit up, have thiswater in front of you at a level
that you can see with your eyes, either straight ahead on a
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table or if you're looking down,then you're looking down, but
just have that glass of waterthere and we're just going to
inhale and we're going to exhaleand we're just going to look at
that glass of water.
Perhaps it doesn't matter howfar you filled it up, but just
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observe without judgment.
What is the texture like ofthis water?
Is it still?
Is there any odd bubble thathappens in it?
Or perhaps it's completelystill?
Is this water clear or is itslightly murky?
How does it sit within thecontainer?
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How does it sit?
So this water, as you stare atit, can represent the present
moment.
Sometimes we feel that thingsdon't change or they become
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stagnant, but if we just observethe water a bit more, you will
see that there is life within it.
You will see that there is lifewithin it Water, the life force
that nourishes us so much, socalmly and so deeply, why this
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can be a symbol for life.
Things can be still or appearto be still, but there's still
life unfolding within that glass.
So we're just going to look atthis glass for a few more
minutes.
Just try and observe theentirety of this glass.
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So I'm going to go ahead andget the camera out of the way.
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So now just gently tip theglass a little bit and see how
life can move.
For this may seem like anordinary glass of water, but if
you were to boil it, it wouldmake steam.
If you were to freeze the waterin an ice cube tray, it would
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make ice.
If it's fresh drinking waterand you were to drink it, it
would nourish your being.
You can wash with the water.
The water is a life force, abit like your everyday life.
So come back to this watergazing meditation whenever you
want to experience with calmnessthe entirety of life.
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So thank you for listening andI'll speak to you very soon.
And, as always, if you wouldlike an online energy healing,
then do reach out to us.
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