Breathing Med

This is the other meditation

 

Nautilus Meditation

I invite you to engage in a short meditation to experience the energy that lies quiesent within the spirals of the Nautilus! 

If you are fortunate enough to own a cross section of a Nautilus shell, I encourage you to gently cup it with both your hands. If you don't have the actual shell, a picture of a cross-section of the shell would be an acceptable substitute.

Quiet your thoughts and for a moment, just concentrate on the beginning point of the spiral, deep within the shell. With your eyes open, follow the spiral around and around as it climbs higher and higher, like a staircase, opening into larger and larger, chambers. 

Closing your eyes, visualize that central point again and imagine yourself, very small, at the beginning of the spiral. Just as you followed the spiral around and around like a staircase, imagine yourself climbing those stairs, spiraling around and around, climbing higher and higher, moving up and out through the chambers, noticing that each chamber is a larger replica of the one before.

Go slowly, and allow yourself to experience the turns of the spiral, noticing how it gets wider and wider at each turn. In your mind's eye look down into the spiral and view the center once again to see just how far you have come. 

The spiral staircase can go anywhere you want it to go, or you can stop in any one of the chambers to receive the knowledge and wisdom of that chamber. Remember, the Nautilus has been replicating itself for 500 million years and carries within its chambers the memories and inexhaustible knowledge of times past. 

When you feel that you have experienced the upward turning of the spiral, look back once again to the center to see how far you have climbed. Then relax your mind and rest for a period of time within the spiral's energy. 

When you feel ready gently open your eyes and write down any experiences or any knowledge that you may have received from the depths of the Nautilus.