Ever felt so drained that even the simplest tasks seem monumental? Join me as I navigate through the haze of post-travel fatigue and share a surprisingly simple yet effective technique to regain focus and serenity: tree-watching meditation. Instead of succumbing to the temptation of a midday movie, I explore how the quiet, rhythmic motion of nature can provide a perfect escape from the chaos of a busy mind.
In this episode, I guide you through setting up your space for a calming meditation session focused on observing a tree. Whether you’re staring out your window or imagining a tree from a picture book, this practice allows you to pause, breathe, and find balance. Transforming a low-energy day into a moment of peaceful introspection. So, take a breath with me and discover how simply watching a tree can rejuvenate your spirit and help you find your calm and focus.
Please note that we do not necessary agree with all the views on this podcast and leave listeners to make their own mind up with what they do or don't agree with.
Ever felt so drained that even the simplest tasks seem monumental? Join me as I navigate through the haze of post-travel fatigue and share a surprisingly simple yet effective technique to regain focus and serenity: tree-watching meditation. Instead of succumbing to the temptation of a midday movie, I explore how the quiet, rhythmic motion of nature can provide a perfect escape from the chaos of a busy mind.
In this episode, I guide you through setting up your space for a calming meditation session focused on observing a tree. Whether you’re staring out your window or imagining a tree from a picture book, this practice allows you to pause, breathe, and find balance. Transforming a low-energy day into a moment of peaceful introspection. So, take a breath with me and discover how simply watching a tree can rejuvenate your spirit and help you find your calm and focus.
Please note that we do not necessary agree with all the views on this podcast and leave listeners to make their own mind up with what they do or don't agree with.
Hello, dear listeners, and today my energy levels aren't at their most peak. I had a wonderful weekend, but then I was travelling and now I'm very, very tired and I've been trying to concentrate on a few things. I had a plan of all the things I would like to accomplish today and I'd say I've done about 10% of those things. So I could go. One of the two ways I could either tell myself off, try and do stuff when I'm kind of forcing against it, or the other thing is, which I might do later is just to curl up and watch a movie, but then that doesn't feel right as well because it's working hours for me. So what am I going to do instead? Well, I feel that when there's times when I can't concentrate so well, perfect antidote is to just have a meditation, but then if my mind is over busy and I close my eyes, it might not necessarily be the best thing. So I like to do meditation. Where I watch, there's this tree in the distance and it moves, and especially at this time of year, because even though it's a grey day today there's a lot of greenery, because we're just about to come into summer and so there's a lot to see. But even if it's the winter and you're watching a tree that doesn't have leaves on it, it's still worth a watch. And the good thing about this meditation it's probably a good one to do indoors. If you are doing outside, of course, be a safe distance, because if it's windy, but if you can do it from your window, all the more better. And if you don't happen to have any trees nearby, I suggest instead you look at a picture in a book of a tree and then you close the eyes and imagine that tree in your head. So if you don't have an actual tree, that is the way around it. But you're going to say why, the gentle yoga warrior, why are you talking about watching trees on a working conscious conversations podcast in a conversation?
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Right, the pause, the moment, the delicate poses, instead of the ums and ahs which we all do sometimes, and it's not a sin to do that. But those moments of pause, those moments of just to be, those moments to go within, they are just as important to the conversation as the moments when you do say something. So the movement, meditation is a, is a fantastic, delightful way to find that sense of calm, equilibrium and balance when perhaps you're not feeling at your best, your most alive, and, and I just feel like this, there's so much like, there's some radiation, like everywhere, and I don't know. We're spending more and more time indoors instead of being outside. And of course, in the UK the weather's not particularly great, but even if you live somewhere that the weather is good and you can find a safe spot to watch a tree, do so. And if you don't have a tree, like I said, you can look at a picture in a book, imagine that tree and then just close your eyes and do it that way. Anyway, this is, this episode is more about doing than listening, but it's an easy doing. It's not a doing with makes effort, it's more like a doing where you're just being, and that's the perfect antidote. So for this kind of start of the week I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about this week, kind of thing this is the perfect meditation, in my humble opinion, to do as promised.
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Here is your meditation, inspired by today's show. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back, always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, although that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching, and if you're doing something that requires your concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin.
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So if you look at the tree in front of you either that is a physical tree or a tree that you've imagined after seeing in a book and you just have your gaze in one spot and you just allow that tree to move, you allow the branches of that tree, as you look at it, to move in the breeze. Look at it to move in the breeze, the reverberation as the wind hits against the leaves, casting a green and magical breeze like a sea in the air, and just think that wind is blowing away all your cares and you're just allowing yourself to be. Imagine that you're as perfect as can be, as beautiful as you are in the moment. Allow, allow and be. Watch as the leaves move and they dance and they sing and they prance in the wind, and the gentleness of the breeze helps to illuminate a sense of ease within your being.
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Perhaps today has been a little bit more difficult to navigate than other days. Meditation may feel a strain, but if you look at the tree, it can help you feel this breeze, this sense of ease. As you inhale through the nostrils and you exhale and you let it all out, you allow yourself to be yourself, to be free within this moment. Allow yourself to be the greenery why it resonates with the sense of self-love inner love, outer love, love for others, love for ourselves.
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Nature is so godly in the sense that it is beautiful, it is there, it is resilient. It's not that nature never has a care for. It can be difficult for nature to navigate who's eating who? Who's feeding off who? But within it, nature is in the moment, nature is in the now. Nature is so beautiful, nature just knows. How Can you be in line with that nature?
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Take a calming deep breath and just allow yourself to gently listen to the tree as it moves so gracefully in the breeze. And if your mind pops off somewhere, don't despair. Just come back to the breath, breathe deeply as you take in that tree, just allowing yourself to feel completely and utterly free. Allow, allow. Take a calming deep breath in and out through the nostrils as you inhale, as you slowly come back into the moment, come back into the room, knowing that whenever you feel a bit of sense of disconnection, try this meditation as you look towards the tree. So next week we have an amazing guest. And yes, as always, do stay tuned. And if you like the show, please leave the five star rating. And if you would like a shamanic healing session, then do check out our website.
