* No cell phone or at least turn off cell phone
* Perception of nature in tangible proximity (tree, plant, stone, landscape, animal...)
* silence
* a nice place to sit or lie down
Find a place where you can spend an hour in peace. This can be outside by a city tree or in a landscape or on the balcony or in the apartment. The main thing is that in this place you can undisturbed feel the presence of nature - including nature in you. Nature can also be a houseplant or simply the air and light in the room. Or a forest, a meadow, the sky or a stone. Breathe calmly and look indeterminately into the room.
Pay attention to your perceptions, your thoughts, feelings. Let them pass by like clouds and detach yourself from them by not judging anything and not holding on to anything. Should you catch yourself judging and holding on, pay attention to your breath and direct your gaze again into the undefined.
Let the terms, phrases and images that arise simply appear and disappear. Walk courageously for an hour through this process of transformation in perception.
At the end, pay attention once again to your breath and focus your gaze or even your hearing on what you are now encountering. Afterwards, give thanks for what you have received, even if you cannot grasp it or put it into terms. In the following hours and days, simply and on your own, let what nature has communicated to you in this hour mature within you. And be sure: Something will show itself - even if it is only the curiosity about something that has fallen out of the usual human view.
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This recipe is from
Michael Schels