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Hidden Gold Day 2
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"What have you seen of your own still concealed beauty?
One of these days at dawn, you will rise from within yourself like a sun."
Rumi translated by Helminski and Rezwani
I'm glad you're here for Day 2!
Today we will encounter the extraordinary power of our own imagination. With our mindful body awareness as a foundation, we'll now venture into this awesome and infinitely rich inner landscape.
Most of us have a head full of doubts, agendas and opinions a lot of the time. If we go blundering into our inner world invested in these, we may not move beyond habitual limitations. So try suspending your investment for the duration of the practice. Along with our body awareness, John O'Donohue's idea of a 'Reverence of Approach' is illuminating here. How we approach something determines what we find. This applies to our inner world too. If we approach with attentiveness, humility, respect and wonder, imagining that we are honouring the mystery present within us at the centre of our mandala - our hidden gold - then we open up potential.
Video 2 - Imagination:
Here are the three quotes from the video in case you want to spend a bit more time musing on them:
'Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.' Einstein, Cosmopolitan 1929
'This is one of the sacred duties of the imagination: Honourably to imagine your self. The shortest distance in the world is the one between you and yourself. The space in question is tiny. Yet what goes on in this little space determines nearly everything about the kind of person you are and about the kind of life you are living.' John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty
'A reverence of approach awakens depth and enables us to be truly present where we are. When we approach with reverence great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things.' John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty.
And now, get comfortable either in a sitting or lying down posture. Ensure that this will be a little oasis of uninterrupted time - switch off notifications, close the door. Now is the time for going deep into your imagination. Decide if you'd like to take a question about a particular area of your life with you into the journey (anything from how to be with anxiety, to a decision that needs to be made), or whether you'd like to have a more general intention to connect with your hidden gold. Then align yourself with a 'Reverence of Approach' - an intention to approach your inner world with deep respect and wonder. Now travel through a forest to the centre of your mandala and press play on this audio journey.
Audio 2 - Hidden Gold imagery journey:
Give yourself plenty of time to come out of the practice slowly. Have a stretch. Then, from the feeling of the practice, you might like to journal a little with words, images, ideas, metaphors, scribbles, colours.