The Tree

A few months back I finally actioned my plan of getting a spiritual guide, more like a consciousness facilitator.

I figured that if the success and business principal of "surrounding yourself with experts" in order to succeed works there, then why not use the same principal in helping me make more headway in enlightening my path through life.

To be sure, I did great on my own and still do. I'm not giving up my personal power of choice, or following some dogmatic approach to my expansion. Nah, that's too confining for me. So I put my request in with the law of attraction and was led to a wonderful teacher.

For now, I've been visiting with her monthly and just like the flavor in each onion layer becomes more intense as you get closer to the core, so too have my sessions with her, and the ensuing "homework".

This brings me to the Tree. Ah . For the next month I am to focus on a single tree in my daily meditation. I meditate in the morning just after waking and in the evening just before falling asleep. In my focusing on this tree, I'm to observe it and make any notes that come to mind.

It's wonderful really, I've been spending time with this one particular tree since I moved in here. It is old, I couldn't say how old, but its about 50 ft tall and covers almost the entire backyard in shade at some times in the day.

Judging by the trauma to it's bark and the number of branches that have been cutoff over time, I'm guessing that this tree has seen many things. I've pet it sometimes, greeting it like a fellow soldier, a kinsman. It has a warm, happy aura. I find that I feel good standing below its branches, besides the free shade I get in the summer.

So I continue observing the tree... day 5 tomorrow. Not that I'm counting because its boring, but simply because when I hit 30 I know its time to visit my teacher again, and thats something I really value.