Do How

Gentle Warning!

If you have not yet established a relationship with sitting meditation, then please consider the proposed regime of creative solitude as an aspiration for your future personal development.

Solitary wild-land meditation is not the easy way to begin to know your own mind. As a meditation practice, extended solitude can be psychologically challenging. Relationship with a meditation instructor or mentor is recommended. The most common obstacles arise in the experience of boredom and isolation, the potential discomfort of actually being alone without distraction and entertainment.

Proceed with sober self-awareness, and allocate yourself a generous amount of empathy toward your own vulnerabilities, a key fundamental to the pursuit of calm-abiding and insight.

Basic Meditation Instruction

Find a quiet, uncluttered space inside. It could be as simple as the corner of a bedroom. Choose a spot where you will not be interrupted by others, even a pet.

Sit quietly. Settle into a stable comfortable posture. In a sturdy chair, or on a pad or cushion on the floor, place the palms of your hands lightly onto your thighs, or in the X mudra,