My meditations have shifted lately to gauze and cotton candy, and the change is a bit disconcerting to me.  I usually have detailed, vivid, visions with a definite theme to them, but lately they are leisurely and very relaxing.  Perhaps that is indeed the theme after all when I think about it, and I will start enjoying them for what they are.  I have been learning the  Japanese healing art of Reiki, and I have been  experiencing a  shift in my perceptions since I began my classes.

I recently found myself once again drifting contentedly in gray mist, and since this seems to be a common situation for me now I felt comfortable enough to lie back and relax into the mist with no thought to lessons to be learned or messages to receive.  I felt no surface below me, but rather the sensation of drifting peacefully with no physical sensations at all.  I drifted nowhere in particular with no goal in my mind at all, and I felt as if my mind simply became part of a collective energy that simply existed.  It was a delightful sensation and one I highly recommend, and the only unpleasant part of the experience was dragging myself back down to earth and consciousness.  I now see how monks can sit and meditate for days on end, and I know I will be returning as soon and as often as possible.

Maybe there was a lesson floating around in that mist after all.  The energy that flows through all of existence, which is the energy that flows through all things and is a common current that connects everything to everything else, exists not only when we choose to acknowledge it or allow it to flow freely through us, but has existed since the beginning and will flow long after this planet has no physical life forms on it.  It flows through and connects us all every second of every day, and whether I choose to take the time to drift and enjoy the energy flowing through me, or to focus on the sharp edges of daily life and neglect that part of myself it will still exist without alteration.  Some might call this energy God while some might call it the natural order of the physical universe, but while I drifted in that exhilarating, relaxing mist of energy wisping all around me I had no labels for anything or anyone and needed none. 

Maybe that was the lesson to be learned after all…it simply is what it is and that is the beauty of it.

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