1. Meditation: Sit quietly, paying attention to how your body is, then watch your breath until you are feeling centered.
2. Memory: Close your eyes and count your blessings. Use a moment. Use a once. Visualize an encounter with a person from the previous day. Visualize a moment of love or kindness you received from a friend, a loved one or a stranger. A word or a gesture. A touch on the hand. Using all the senses, recall these moments. You can also focus on an encounter in nature, a sensual pleasure. Feel gratitude for the taste of a blueberry, the sound of a warbler, the melody in the voice of a lover. Try to find three such moments each morning. You might want to write these blessings down and share them with others.
3. Dream: In this place of gratitude, recall a dream moment you have worked with. Thoroughly visualize it, see it, hear it, taste it, smell it. Pay attention to the sense details and to the feelings. See if you can be with the moment without interpretation or story, but with your heart open absorbing the energies there, the feelings. If you can identify a sacred encounter in a dream focus on that.
Seeing into the Life of Things Imagination and the Sacred Encounter
A blessing practice with dreams.