Mindfulness & the Art of Drawing: A creative path to awareness by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

Author:Wendy Ann Greenhalgh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Ivy Press
Published: 2015-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Nature started to work its magic swiftly. Gradually, the excited getting-to-know-you chatter of myself and the other retreatants faded away as we looked out of the windows. Gradually, too, the bars of connectivity on our mobile phones dwindled as we lost reception. Arriving at the retreat centre, we stood on the lawn, looking out at the dark, still loch below us, the hunch of the mountain. By the next day, I was more than ready to go into the complete silence of not speaking for the rest of the week.

We meditated for many hours every day on this retreat, alternating between periods of sitting meditation and then of walking meditation, looping around the lawn, gazing at the waters of the loch, the trees, the sky, feeling the sun on our faces, and quite often – this being the Highlands – the soft, cool drizzle of rain. And all the time, the silent presence of the natural world around me, and the silence I kept with others and with myself, worked deeper and deeper on me.

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