Deborah Lipp

Meditation Room #1
Meditation Room #2
Meditation Room #3

Let’s return to your meditation room. Every time you return there, you reinforce its power and usefulness as a place of meditation, peace, and knowledge.

Ground and center.

Return to your outdoor place, and take a moment to enjoy the serenity and beauty you find there. Notice that you feel renewed just being there.

Step up to the cottage door. As usual, the key is in your pocket. Take a moment to look around and assure yourself that this is your beautiful and safe place.

Today we’ll spend time outdoors, so go back outside and look at the exterior of your cottage. You have been approaching the cottage from the front, but now, walk around the left side to the back. It’s really beautiful here. Take a moment to examine what it’s like. Is it wild and unkempt? Manicured and gracious? Is it sunny? Shaded? Spend time learning the nature of this outdoor place that is a part of your meditation cottage.

Notice that there is a perfect place for you to sit. It may be a lawn chair, or a stone, or a soft spot on the ground. It is exactly what you wish it to be, and when you walk up to it and sit down, you are exquisitely comfortable.

As you look around from this seat, breathing in the comfort and beauty of the place, notice that you see one or more paths leaving your back yard and going off into the distance. Whenever you want to, you can explore those paths, and know that you can always return to the safety of your cottage.

Sometimes, when doing guided meditations, you are instructed to start at a path. You can always choose one of these paths, and it will always take you where you set out to go.

Spend as much time as you like in your back yard, noticing plants, listening to bird song, inhaling the scent of wild or cultivated herbs or flowers. When you are ready, walk around the other side of the house, back to the front, and then return on your usual route home.