1. Set aside the next few minutes. Find a comfortable, quiet place where you will feel safe and are not likely to be disturbed. Take the phone off the hook, take off your shoes. Begin to relax.
2. Sit or lie down in a comfortable position. Gently close your eyes but remain alert.
3. Tell yourself that you would like to begin to remember certain life experiences, those particular times when your senses were so deeply involved in an activity or event that:
· It seems timeless. There was only the present time.
· You felt unencumbered by the past memories and future anticipation.
· You were being instead of doing.
You may call them peak experiences. Your experiences could be visual ones – that unforgettable sunset at Yosemite, the time a pod of dolphins skirted your fishing boat, your child first step. Your experiences might have been auditory – that incredible performance by Pavarotti, the sound of wind in a downhill ski run at Sun Valley, your child’s first word.
4. As you mind sifts, sorts and categorizes these peak memories, one in particular will assert itself strongly. Focus on it. Now, holding that memory in your mind, begin to examine it closely, minutely. Let the memory resonate throughout your entire body and being. Can you sense the overall feeling of being present in that experience? Can you recall the timeless quality of just being in an event that you were not trying to control, shape, fiddle with, or judge?
5. Let yourself go and once again relive this timeless moment of presentness. Do not interfere with it. Do not edit it into something more than it was. Gently stop and open your eyes. Take a pause to feel the experience of the body and mind.
And when you have finish reliving the moment, gently stop and open your eyes. Take a pause to feel the experience of the body mind.
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