“Leaves on a Stream” Exercise (1)Sit in a comfortable position and either close your eyes or rest them gently on a fixed spot in the room. (2)Visualize yourself sitting beside a gently flowing stream with leaves floating along the surface of the water.Pause 10 seconds. ...
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The brain also stores core experiences ready for re-use in the simulation. Imagine you are walking through your local park on a lovely sunny day. You have been to the park countless times before, and know it in detail. You have seen the sun filtering through the leaves of the trees many...
Sometimes participants stay for quite a while after the walk and share what they discovered in the woods and about themselves. As a guide, being in nature, sharing the experience with others is always uplifting. When everyone leaves I love to return to the woods and give gratitude for the ...
More on ghosts and demons. These two, precisely, are both a variety of things. A ghost can be — for conventional purposes — seen as a mindstream or energy body that has left a signature aspect of itself in a physical place and space. That “place” would not only b...
Imagine you are walking through your local park on a lovely sunny day. You have been to the park countless times before, and know it in detail. You have seen the sun filtering through the leaves of the trees many times; you know how the grass looks and smells, the sounds made by the...
or something you’ve borrowed from someone and had intended to return, and then you might notice an unpleasant feeling tone. If you are outside, you may notice the sun streaming through the leaves of a tree, or a piece of dirty plastic rubbish flapping around. If you can catch the momen...
knee-jerk reaction to feeling tone. If a feeling tone sets the scene, then the reactivity pulse casts the actors, selects the costumes and writes the script for what happens next. And it can write a script and direct a scene that can easily ruin your whole day and sometimes far, far,...