This time of year is a brilliant time to take your sensory meditation out into nature. Here is a way of doing your meditation and getting outside into the autumn colour, using sensory objects, things that you can see, things that you can touch and that you can smell.
One brilliant meditation project you can do is go around collecting leaves and twigs and anything else that takes your fancy. There are beech nuts around here today. There are all sorts of pine cones we can collect. Get a bag, collects your treasures, then find yourself a really nice spot and create yourself a Mandela. A Mandela is simply a circle with symmetrical patterns which go out in concentric rings, you can create any pattern you like.
The meditation is achieved just by creating the pattern and being creative, not really thinking too hard about what you're doing. So here's one I created this morning with a collection of buddings sticks just around a little mushroom. Then I've circled round it with various colored, beautiful colored leaves creating my concentric ring shape, and then I have created a little pile of leaves to just sort of enclose the circle.
Now the interesting thing about this project that I did today was the initial clearing of the ground. I initially swept the ground free of leaves. So I had the plain green area to work with. And in doing that, I found my first treasure, which was the little mushroom I've used in the center of my Mandela.
The second thing was in the process of clearing the leaves, I just really thought, do you know this is really reflective of getting clarity after your work - thoughts had been whirling around creating lots of cloudiness, just spending a little bit of time in peaceful contemplation, you can get those clouds to drift away and suddenly you can see things from a totally different perspective.
Give it a try, see what you feel, see what you find.
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