Solo retreat part 1: Coach ride and Meditation

You, who hold the whole world in your hand
We place our lives in Your hand
You, who, with a brush of your hand
Created Earth and all its creation
We place our hearts in Your hand
We call our souls to being
and stand before you, our God, our Father, our Mother
Fill our hearts with your spirit,
from the deepest recesses to the brim of our hearts
That love, joy, peace and faith will overwhelm our hearts and spring forth upon all creation
You are our dear Lord and King
We bow and praise and worship you
Amen
Selah

Meditation
Checked in at the hotel. And just finished 57 minutes of mindfulness meditation. 57 because after I started the timer (which was 5 Metres away from me since I was charging the phone, I spent over a minute getting into the right position etc and also spent the last minute checking to see if the timer was working. It seemed like an awful long time!

Well, it wasn't easy just focusing on my breathing. Many times, the breathing went to the background while many different thoughts came in. These were some of the thoughts:

-this feels like when I am led by the Holy Spirit to pray
- I am hungry
- I think I can sleep after meditation
- how to walk to jonker street
- my ex and yoga and our ex-gym and wondered if she ever checked that I enrolled to be a member again
- pie pie saying yesterday at least I am just wasting one hour of my life
- an absolut collector offering his place for me to crash at if I pass by Liege so we could trade vodka bottles
- how he looked a bit like my cousin
- meditation for mindfulness helps because the habit of bringing the focus back to breathing trains one to focus on the task at hand
- the meditation expert and her process
- wondering when the meditation expert first felt like giving up during her 10 day silent retreat
- wondering if it was okay to stretch my neck and my legs while maintaining my breathing
- that my nose was blocked and whether it was the same breathing through the mouth
-whether it was okay to change position from time to time
-whether I should go to the gym after meditation or get some food first
- thinking that I will snack a bit while updating my blog on my first hour long meditation experience
- thankful for free wifi
- that pie pie is having the time of her month
- the previous women's retreat
-catching up with one of my inner circle friends on Sunday
- sending pie pie off on Sunday morning before service
- thinking about the conversations I had with the people I spent time with yesterday
- thinking about the meaning behind some of the sharings


And a few more. But I am hungry so I am gonna walk to jonker street to have my first proper meal of the day. Ciao.
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