My meditation practice is undisciplined and irratic ..... October was filled with overseas travel and the many external pressures of "doing" rather than "being"....and I am approaching November feeling as though I have lost touch with the present moment
On facebook, there is a new event that lasts 108 days (November 8, 2008 - Febryuary 23, 2009 ... Feb. 25 is the Tibetan New Year)
Folks are asked to commit to any practice, meditation, contemplation, aspiration prayer, sadhana, yoga or shikantaza ....... 108 seconds to 108 minutes ...... Doing it every day. Every day. Every day. Every day for 108 solid days ....... On a zafu, a chair, standing in a park ....
Then there is Michael Brown's "One-on-One" where he suggestes that folks commit to 40 days ........ look at the circumstances in your life and make a list of ten one-word summaries of an unresolved issue, event, circumstance, person, or situation currently causing grief or anxiety .... taking 15 minutes per day....day. Every day. Every day for 40 solid days ...... to scan the list ... feel the emotional signature related to that issue, event circumstance ... and where you feel it in your body ....
Doorways
"In approaching the Self, it helps to have a doorway we can comfortably walk through......"
With this in mind.....and with the intention to incorporate daily meditation practice into my life I chose to start with a ten minute guided meditation.....from the Mindfulness Practice Centre at the University of Vermont....it is a woman's voice...it is gentle....suitable for beginners like me
As a back-up, and for variety (if and when I become restless) .... I have also downloaded Peter Russell's 10 minute version
Through this regular daily practice .... I may need to go deeper in the future .... and hopefully 40 to 108 days will not feel so daunting ?
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