A Wall on a Hill
A meditation by Saint James
Meditation Goal: Grounding/Stress Release
Time:
Apprx 3 minutes
Guiding Affirmations:
I am safe.
I feel love within and without.
I am confident in my ability to confront life's challenges.
I am guided in my every step to what I must know and do.
I have inner strength that outweighs all unwelcome circumstances.
A Wall on a Hill
Once you've read the steps and want to try it for yourself, close your eyes. You will need your imagination more than your physical senses for this exercise.
First, imagine yourself standing with your eyes closed. You wear a relaxed, subtle smile on your face.
You open your mind’s eye to find yourself at the top of a grassy hill. All around you there are yellow flowers dancing in a warm breeze.
The sun is in front of you, shining brightly on everything in sight.
Beside you stands a wall that may be made of brick or stone.
The wall is maybe 20 to 30 feet long, and may be a few inches taller than your head.
Behind the wall is the only real shadow you can see amongst the sunlit valley around you.
Though the area behind the wall is darker than its surroundings, the ambience of the sun still lifts the shadow to where you can see everything very clearly.
As you stand in the sun, looking behind the wall, you notice something on the ground, amongst the grass and flowers.
It may be a box, a bag or a crate, but we’ll go with a box.
This box is not yours. You know this because here on this hill, you own nothing. Your only responsibility is to bring this box into the light that you are standing in.
You walk over to the box and begin to pull it along the wall, back to the spot you were standing in.
You do not yet know what is inside, but you know that it must meet the light that you live in and enjoy so much.
As you drag the box toward the end of the wall, you notice that it has some weight to it, but is not too heavy for you.
You may feel every step you take to pull this box along the wall, but it doesn’t take long to get there.
You get to the end of the wall and pull the box into its home stretch, right into the sunshine.
You stand up straight again, and immediately the box... dissolves... into nothing.
The sunlight does the job you knew it would. You watch the box as it and its contents fade into complete transparency.
Where there was a box or a bag or a crate there are only flowers again.
You begin to smile. Job well done. You look up at the wall and its light shadow, and that fades into transparency, too.
Imagine yourself once again with your eyes closed, standing in the warmth of that sun. Do this any many times as you need, knowing that the box will always disappear once the rays of the sun reach it; Knowing that the wall only waits for you to move the box behind it.
Do this for yourself and your perceived problems, as well as for the perceived problems of others.
Why it Works
At our best, we are calm. We feel safe and secure. We are breathing steadily and enjoying the blessings of the natural world.
When "problems" arise, it's important for us to look at them objectively, shielding ourselves from a victim mentality or internalizing them to feed our shame.
We must bring all that is out of alignment into the light of awareness. Problems and their solutions are both present in the box. The solutions reveal themselves after you've brought the problem into the light.
Your job is only to bring it all into the light, where you reside.
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