Deborah Lipp

This is part 2 of working with your meditation room. This room will become a place you can return to whenever you wish.

Ground and center.

Return to your outdoor place, and take a moment to settle there, and breathe in the peaceful beauty of it.

Now you’re ready to go to your cottage. It looks just as you remembered it. As you reach the door, you find the key in your pocket, and let yourself in.

Look around the room. You recognize it, and the sense of familiarity feels wonderful.

Your task today is to make a comfortable spot in which you will sit. It might be cushions on the floor, or a couch, or a rocking chair, or whatever you choose. Arrange the furnishings and cushions. Do you have someplace to rest your feet? Do you have a blanket to wrap yourself in? Make the colors pleasing, and the textures comfortable.

When your comfortable spot is ready, sit in it and find where your gaze rests. Now is the time to prepare a view to enjoy from your comfortable spot. Go to the closet and open it. You’ll find a painting propped up there. Take it and hang it up so that it is in view of your spot. What is it a painting of?

Return to your comfortable spot and look at the painting. What is it? What does it mean to you?

Meditate on the painting while you experience the relaxed comfort of being in this special place you have created.

In the future, you can find other paintings in the closet, and meditate on different images from your cozy seat.

When you are ready, leave the cottage, locking the door behind you and taking the key. You can return whenever you wish.