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Exercise: Astonishment
Open up to the world around and in yourself in all its fullness!
Astonishment helps you to connect your soul completely with the appearances of the world. You can practice this particularly on the little details of everyday life in your immediate vicinity. This strengthens your inner confidence in dealing with external impressions. You will discover amazing things everywhere if you look around with keen interest.
Take a few minutes a day to do the following.
Find a specific object or something else that you like.
1. Perceiving:
What do you notice in particular? What is it that catches your eye?
First consider, which senses are especially addressed.
You can plan to pay attention to specific senses while practicing. For instance concentrate on: what do you see, hear, smell? How does it taste, etc. Are there any sensations of warmth or cold?
Experiment with the focused and the peripheral gaze. What do you discover? What connects you more to the brain, what more to the heart?
2. Feeling:
How is your feeling addressed?
Are there any stimuli for your fantasy? What associations arise? Allow this, but be careful to maintain your connection with the observed and with your body at the same time. Set yourself a limit in the flood of images.
Again and again turn to the being with which you have connected yourself for exercise. Ask it questions and listen for the answers. Don't expect great insights in the beginning. Be careful that your interest and your devotion is true.
3. Summarize
In a further step, your will, your power of concentration, is asked for. Now it is required to form an essence. Summarize the whole process of your exercise in one word or sentence.
4. Listening
Then look for your inner tranquillity. Do you discover the afterimage, the echo? Deepen your listening! Do not give up immediately, when disturbing thoughts or moods arise, let them go calmly.
Seemingly insignificant objects of everyday life, as well as smaller or greater beings in nature, will begin to tell you the most amazing stories. You will be astonished what can arise. This may cause joy and pleasure. Do you notice how you feel increasingly connected and at home in your surroundings?
For example, when looking at a plant repeatedly: You can always perceive something new and admirable. The plant will show you more and more of its essence and its inner beauty can reveal deep principles of nature to you. Even accurately drawing a single leaf can bring you into connection with secrets of creation.
Or if you immerse yourself in the abundance of colors in the sky after sunset, or in the constantly changing figures of the clouds. Let your soul vibrate and create vivid pictures and stories but don´t loose yourself in it. Be amazed about the wealth of your soul, discover yourself and grow from all of that.
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