
Saved by Christina Fedor and
The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
Saved by Christina Fedor and
This is the quality of gentleness. As you will learn, the art of contemplation is a gentle path,
The first stage is about allowing the painful feeling.
This indeed is the purpose of contemplation — to find connections, to build bridges and to come to realise that everything in life is connected to everything else.
Above all, we can begin to see the activity itself as a pause and our minds can rest while our bodies remain in motion.
The technique of pausing leads us to a wonderful paradox — the more we slow down, the more life appears to expand.
Forgiveness, whether of yourself or another, is about releasing yourself from a series of energetic hooks that link you to a certain person or past event. One contemplative approach is to close your eyes and locate these hooks inside yourself. Then using your breath, breathe into each one and let it go. If there was another person involved, you can
... See moreOne purpose of this book is to increase the frequency of these spontaneous rushes of clarity in our lives.
Sometimes when we bat away a perceived disturbance, we are really closing the door to an unexpected moment of serendipity and good fortune.
The trick is to be somewhere with no purpose other than pleasure and to take your time. We need to learn to saunter rather than stomp, and to meander rather than march.