For this exercise find a place, any place, with some nature present (which, let’s face it, is anywhere and everywhere; the air you are breathing right now, even the body with which you perceive the world is part of ‘nature’). In this practice, we begin by honing our powers of perception. Imagine you have just…
Seeing with “fresh eyes” – A deeper nature experience
Around the time I first learned how to meditate, something amazing happened to me. It happened one day, quite spontaneously. I was working as a lawyer at the time and I used to walk down a little lane way to the train station on my commute to work. It’s not an especially beautiful lane way –…