I have a short but sweet flowing water meditation for you this week. Don’t overlook trying this one because it’s so simple.
My experience in life is that simple usually turns out much better than complicated.
Anyway, we start with this wonderfully wise Chinese proverb…
Flowing water never goes bad.
Now, let’s put the proverb to use.
Here’s what you do…
Whenever your life gets crazy, stop for a moment, take several deep breaths until you feel yourself slowing down.
As soon as you’re consciously aware of having slowed down, visualize flowing water in your mind.
Perhaps you visualize a favorite stream from your childhood…
- or the sound of rain hitting a favorite roof while you’re resting on the couch on a Sunday afternoon…
- or just some flowing water that you make up in your imagination.
Once you have a good visual image of flowing water, then you become that flowing water.
Pause with everything right now and work this exercise:
Stop for a moment and take a few deep breaths and first visualize flowing water…
… and then feel yourself, your very being, as that flowing water.
Ah, that’s it.
Now you have it.
The cool thing about this flowing water meditation is that you can stop and do it multiple times a day, any day, whenever you wish.
You can even do it at work, especially when somebody’s messing with your inner peace and harmony.
Indeed, when you become flowing water, the BS of life flows right past you! 
Chet
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That’s a wonderful meditation and I’ll definitely try it. Since I retired a little more than a year ago I’ve been doing quite a lot of meditation and yoga as well as sacred circle dance – a form of moving meditation for me.
One of my favorite meditations involves seeing myself (and feeling myself) sitting by a stream. Whenever a thought starts to intrude on my quietness I place it on a leaf floating downstream and then watch as it disappears into the distance. Along with the leaf goes the anxiety.
Sylvia, thanks for sharing you floating leaf meditation. It’s a good one!
Chet
Hey, good suggestion. Great point of focus.