.: Thoughts on the Benefits of Meditating Outdoors
Excerpted from "Your Loved Ones, Your Self; Finding and Raising the Family Within" by Wil Langford
I have had some profound experiences while meditating outdoors and highly recommend that you meditate outdoors as often as possible. Use the sounds and feel of nature to help you to go deep within yourself and to calm and relax you.
The following is one of those experiences I wrote about before that can be explained with words, but is hard to understand. I was sitting on my back porch in Dixmont, Maine, facing the woods and the hill behind the house. I had started meditating and was listening to a gentle summer rain that was falling. I drifted deeper and deeper and felt a pleasant floating sensation. As I listened to the rain and lost myself in the experience, I began to hear individual raindrops and was aware of their path. Some were landing on the roof and dripping off the edge, others were falling on leaves and dripping off, still others were landing on the grass. I could feel and sense each one until I lost my sense of body and became the rain.
I felt and sensed each raindrop as my awareness spread out around me increasing my field of perception and awareness exponentially. I was the rain, that is to say, my consciousness entered the rain. The only thought I had was, “I can feel and sense every raindrop!” Then the words inside me were gone, replaced by sensations, and I was the rain. I lost track of time and place and my physical being. In human terms it would be impossible to be aware of every raindrop in a rain shower, simultaneously, but in that state of perception I believe I was, though I can hardly describe what it felt like. I can only tell you, meditate during a rainstorm, but don’t try to be the rain, just listen and enjoy the rhythm and natural music of the rain and someday you may have this experience as well. There is consciousness in the earth and in the rain, perhaps in all water.
Everything has a vibration and frequency. Each color, as we know from the section on waves and wavelength, has its own frequency. Just as there is consciousness throughout the earth I believe there is consciousness in color as well. I was once sitting on the edge of a cornfield in a small grove of trees, looking over the corn at the distant mountains in Baxter State Park. It was a beautiful early fall day in Maine. Many people come to Maine for the summer, but to me, the fall is the best time of year to experience Maine. The bugs are gone, the air is crisp, and the colors are spectacular. On that fall day the sky was a perfect shade of blue and the leaves were just starting to change their colors. The ripened corn waved in the breeze and the faraway mountains looked so close in the clean clear air, it seemed as if I could reach out and touch them. I sat and leaned against a tree and staring up at the sky, began to let the earth slip away. With my eyes open I entered a dreamy state of meditation and lost contact with the earth. I felt the blue of the sky.
Normally we see colors, but I could feel the color as well, in fact, I became the color blue, as strange as that may sound. Neurosurgeons might describe it as synethesia. I felt the vibration of blue and all thoughts were stripped away until only a feeling remained. I was not the sky, I was the blue of the sky. Blue is exhilarating. Like the feeling of bliss I felt when I was the rain, being the color blue felt joyful, happy to be, a feeling of the absolute joy of being. These experiences have taught me that nature is the joyful existence of consciousness.
A tree is a feeling that Higher Consciousness feels. They are one and the same. Just as a thought or feeling exists in each one of us as a polypeptide after we experience the thought or feeling, a tree exists as evidence of the feeling of being a tree as experienced by consciousness. A tree is both the affect and effect of a movement of consciousness. It is a combination of energy and intelligence. As Dr. Carl Jung once observed, sometimes a tree can tell you more than all the books. So can the sky and the rain. They can help you to reach places deep within yourself, and though you may not ever be able to find words that do justice to the experience, you will never be the same and a whole new world will open for you.
Nature will reach deep within you and stir up those dormant feelings hidden within your subconscious. When the Higher Self, as your Loved Ones, wants to reach you, it will find it much easier through nature where your mother earth resides, because though the rain and sky may be around you, Mother Earth and the joy of your own existence reside within you. So for one method of communicating between the subconscious and Higher Self, your Loved Ones, I recommend meditation, particularly outdoors.
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