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Exercise: Shelter and perseverance
Give yourself time! And first contemplate everything with your heart.
Exercise: Coping with pressing situations
If you do it repeatedly, this exercise creates a more relaxed relationship with what you are experiencing.
When you have an intense encounter, immediately try what happens if you vigorously distance yourself. For example, by leaving the room for a moment or by distancing yourself internally. Breathe as deeply as possible and concentrate fully on your body:
What do you perceive? Where do you feel warm or cold? Where do cramps appear? What is your breath doing? Then consciously stand on your feet and feel the earth beneath them. What is happening in your midst? Then take an imaginary walk from the heart through your body and legs down to the feet and a little way into the earth. Then consciously experience your uprightness. Can you feel, that after a while your breath becomes liberated and that you feel better again?
Exercise: Dealing with chaos, pain or rejection.
You do this exercise from a greater distance. It helps you digest chaos, pain or rejection which you have experienced. Take your time once a day to create an inner space in which you can calmly look back at difficult impressions and how they affected you. As an exercise for this week, it helps if the impressions did not happen too long ago and the memory is therefore still relatively precise.
- What was it actually about?
- WHO wanted WHAT?
- What thoughts and moods did you bring in?
- Did you have enough time to give space for the encounter?
- Do you notice sensitivities of your soul and what judgments have you attached to them?
- Did a question meet you, or should you have asked a question?
- How did you deal with distance and intimacy?
- Would it have needed more care?
- Was it possible to develop a balanced give and take?
How does the experience appear after this reflection? And how do you feel after doing it?
Protective meditation
A protective meditation is helpful to ward off negative influences from the outside by strengthening the envelope of your aura. An example is imagining that you feel surrounded by a blue aura that rejects negative forces. The effect can be strengthened by a meditative verse for protection against the outside:
The outer sphere of my aura condenses.
It surrounds me as an impenetrable vessel
against all impure, unfair thoughts and feelings.
It opens only to divine wisdom.
Meditation by R. Steiner, GA 268, S. 37 (Transl.: A. Waldmann)
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