(Continued from Dancing Tree Meditation: be a tree!)
“The tallest oak in the forest was once a little nut that held its ground’’
-Gregory Gunn
Be an Acorn:
Hold yourself in a hug. Curl up to your head, and make a ball like a seed. An egg. An acorn.
We and trees alike store our data with the language of dna. Be it in eggs or seeds, we keep a patterned template of our forming data called our genes. We are cousins in the same tree of life on earth; we the smart monkeys, the trees, and all life.
A seed wants to fall into a nice warm bed, where it is low and safe and dark. A seed tries to nestle. While a seed might spend the winter under the ground, we bundle up and cuddle up too. We “cocoon”.
The seed must attach to the earth! The shape, round or oval, gently guides the weight downward, down to ground with the bioelectric field of the great planet field with which we all must harmonize.
How beautiful, this shell we are in, this sacred sphere.
This is your own tailored mobile aura, your personal office of thought creation and love, that receives and resonates the signal vibration you choose as you go along, wearing it like a car. It can also be a sanctuary of meditation and temple of conception for inspirations and aspirations.
This seed place is a good place to meditate. Why is it so hard to just pause for a little while? There is a moment when a swing reaches as far as it can go, and reverses direction. This is the magic moment of peace.
Find this seed place of quiet, in your mind, in the elbow of a mindful breath, or curled up in a ball like a seed. Touch in. Go on a retreat. It is a place you can keep and use when you need some peace and quiet.
“Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.”-Derik Rydell
Use this space to look forward with clarity and choose your way. When you go out walking and find an acorn on the ground, pick it up and put it in your pocket. When you feel it in there you can remember the quiet feeling of being in the seed meditation place.
Before the sprouting seed sends out a shoot or root, it will swell up with water. The water of life is love, and when the seed cannot contain any more, it reaches out! The first direction it reaches is downward with its little root toes, down to the more water, down to connect with Earth.
If water is like emotion to us, and the golden emotion is Love, then connecting to Earth is connecting to all love! Indeed, when we are physically, electricly, grounded to the earth, our cortisol levels, or stress hormone levels, plummet. Getting grounded calms and refreshes us, gently lifting our emotional orientation from fear to love. One of the quickest ways to get grounded, is in fact, available in your house by taking a bath or shower. Or going for a walk, preferably barefooted in wet grass. Or hey, go hug a tree!
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”- James Allen
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