MOUNTAIN MEDITATION
by Barb Alpert
I love this Mountain Meditation partly because I love mountains. They are so strong, firm, rooted, reaching into the sky, promising adventure if one would climb.
Right now our world is whirling with change and we all have great demands on us for strength and flexibility. We need to look deeply within to find our firmly resolved values amidst new demands on the outside. We need to find our strength to do this, that place of strength within that can bare the winds of change and the weather of the seasons. We need to rest well during our nights and act with clarity and joy and giving during our days.
I find this meditation helps tune me into my inner strength, my ability to be flexible and to trust myself during these times of change. There are varied ways to meditate, some simply involving concentrating on your breath or counting, returning over and again as your mind might fill with thoughts, gently letting them go, and returning to your breath or your count. If one is new to meditation, at becoming quiet and tuning into that quiet place within, it is often easier to use a guided meditation such as this. It directs your wayward mind (our minds are all wayward- part of their nature) and helps you focus and find your center, that place of strength and love, rootedness and flexibility, joy and giving.
A meditation like this can be used over and again. We are all changing constantly so the meditation will change within each time as well, helping you find your way for that particular moment.