Last week I wrote about meditation and I told you about Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's "breathing meditation". Today, I want to share with you one of my own personal meditations. It is just as simple as breathing and involves something that most of us also take for granted - water.
Water is an incredibly vital component in our lives. Water makes up the majority of our body mass. We cannot survive for very long without water. Yet how often do with actually think about it?
I think about water each day when I shower. As I am going through my morning shower routine, I always pause to simply let the water run over my head. At that moment - if I allow it - I feel a powerful surge of energy, from the top of my head straight through my spine, as I become a living and active part of the water cycle. You might remember the water cycle from your grade school science class.
I think about how these particular drops of water fell to the ground as rain or snow, travelled some distance before they were collected by the city, were treated and purified, then pumped through an incredible maze of pipes before they reached my house, were heated by my water heater and then piped up to my shower-head. At that moment, all of that incredible energy and power unleashes itself as the water drops flow over my head and connect me to the unseen source somewhere in the sky.
Then, as the water washes over me, I can feel it carrying away all of my negativity and limiting thoughts and cleansing me of the past. The water washes everything down the drain and out into the city's maze of sewer pipes. Eventually the water will be treated again and added back into the water cycle. In time, it will evaporate into the atmosphere, condense into a cloud and fall back to earth again, perhaps in some distant land.
When I allow myself to be an active participant in this vast and powerful cycle, I gain an incredible amount of energy and I start the day feeling like I have just been baptized into life all over again.
As I step out of the shower, I know that this incredible cycle of life has completely recharged me, cleansed my body and my spirit and left me with a fresh start. Each and every day!
Now I want YOU to set your alarm 5 minutes earlier tomorrow and have the shower of your life!
ENJOY NOW!
