Earth Meditation - Sharing
Go out in the woods, as far from civilization as possible, and find an
old tree that you feel right about. Sit down close to it and make
yourself comfortable. Relax, close your eyes and concentrate.
Breath slowly, breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.
When breathing in, feel how all your blood and life is drawn to your heart,
and when slowly breathing out, feel the life and blood spread through out
your body.
Stretch out your hand and touch the tree, sit for a while then ask
the tree to share of it's wisdom and memory's of ancient times with you.
If it allows you, focus your mind on the tree, see it in front of you
in your mind. Feel it. Follow it's root's down in the earth, feel
how it get's life from earth and lives. Open your mind and enter the
tree, become one with the tree, share your emotions and thoughts with it
and feel the calmness that a long and still life gives.
Feel the tree's thought's and memorys and search for time's far away and
long since forgotten. Drink water and life from the earth and feel
how you get stronger. When you feel ready, bid the tree farewell and thank
it for its help. Slowly open your eyes and rise.
Be sure to have much time when doing this practice, as trees has a
different apprehention of time than us and you easily could be sitting
there for some hours without noticing the time going by.
This is best done in spring or summer when the trees are filled with life.
Also you do not have to worry about your body freezing to death :) .
Water Meditation - Sharing
Find a place by a lake, sea or ocean that you like and sit or lie down
so close that you can touch the water with your fingers.
If you feel comfortable with it you can be in a boat or even in the
water. The important thing is that it feels right.
Relax and look into the water, touch it with your hands.
Breath slowly. Breath in through your nose and feel the smell of the water,
let it fill you, relax and let go as you breath out through your mouth.
Feel it as it touches your skin and stretch out for it. Concentrate your
mind and follow the water as it moves away from your skin. Ask the water
to share with you and if it accepts, let your mind follow it.
You are water, feel how you flow and touches earth, sand and beaches
everywhere. Hear the sound you make as you hit stones and earth around you.
You are movement and beginning of all life. Feel it.
Let the water fill up your counciousness and lead you. Let it clean away all
pain and sorrow from your mind and soul.
When you feel ready, draw your mind away from the water and back into your
body, take your hands away from the water and take some deep breaths.
Take some water in your hands and move them to your face and hair letting
it out over you. Rise and take your leave.
Air Meditation - Sharing
This is the element who has always seemed hardest for me to grasp.
While Earth and Water always have come quite natural to me and
Fire has felt as my true element, Wind has somehow seemed to be
rejecting me, and pushing me away. After many tries, this is the practice that has proven most successful
for me though.
Find a place with strong winds as high up as possible, best place is somewhere,
where you can be alone. A hill is the perfect spot as this will give you the
support of earth from under you. If such a place aint possible for you to find,
just make sure you pick a place with as strong winds as possible.
Focus your mind and draw a pentagram with your finger on the earth surrounding you.
Envision it blue as water.
Draw another pentagram in the air in front of you. Envision it in red fire.
Now stretch out your arms to your sides and close your eyes. Ask the element
of Air to share with you, and let you fly with it's winds.
If you are denied, ask again in the name of Earth, Water, Fire and Soul.
Ask in the name of Life and death, ask in the name of the wild, ask in the
name of yours, as an equal, no more nor less.
Let your mind be drawn out of your body through the red pentagram of fire
with the rythm of the wind, feel how your soul is speeding through the air,
swirling around the hill and your body. You are carried away throughout
the land. This is freedom, this is life. Give to the Air your memorys of
life and show the path you are following. Open your mind and receive
insight and understanding of your purpose. Thank the wind and bid it farewell.
Let your mind return to your body through the circle of fire and open your eyes.
As you let your arms fall down by your sides, envision the two pentagrams dissolving
and dissapearing.