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Meditation on one's Existence
Meditative exercise for mental
health and balance
By Manfred Hanglberger (www.hanglberger-manfred.de)
We exhale deeply
and wait until our chest expands
again on its own to fill with air.
When the
air enters our lungs, we allow
it plenty of room inside
of us.
We become internally wide and receptive
to the energy from the air.
When we breathe out again,
we let our body with its muscles become completely loose and relaxed.
We'll be all loose and relaxed
by letting our arms and legs become very heavy.
As the air flows out, we let go off everything that weighs on us internally.
We live with our inner SELF entirely in our body.
We sense if it feels
good to live in our body.
And then we think of people who are important to us: …
Through our thoughts and feelings
they also live a little with us in a certain way.
Our parents have
a very important place
inside of us.
Father and mother live within us, even
when we don't think of them.
For it is through them that our life has been given
to us.
From the life of father and mother
our life has arisen.
In my body, my father and my mother continue to live a little
further in a certain way.
In some people, father and mother
live very differently in them.
For example, when a parent was in command
and the other always gave in.
Or if you were more attracted to one parent than to the other.
Or if in some families
one parent had little or no contact with the children.
But still, the life of each
of us comes
from his father and
his mother (from his mother and his father)
and therefore both dwell within us:
In our body and in our
soul.
It is important
that we give a proper place within ourselves to both of them,
no mansion, but also no storeroom.
I say internally:
Dad, you are my father, through you God and Mother
Nature gave life to me,
I respect you as my father
and accept my life from you.
And I agree that you also continue to live in
some way inside of me.
And you mom, you are my mother,
through you God and Mother Nature gave life to me,too.
I respect you as my mother
and accept my life from you.
And I agree that also you continue to live in
some way inside of me.
My parents are not
the real origin of my life.
They, too, received their life from their parents and passed it on to me.
I respect them as mediators of my life - in the life stream of generations.
Thus, I'm
not just a child of my parents,
but a child of Mother Nature, who generates all life,
and I am a child of God who looks upon me lovingly,
who knows me to the innermost part of my being
who says YES to my life and my existence.
In His eyes I am and will remain unique,
important and valuable.
When I let myself be looked at by Him,
by Him who loves all his creatures,
then I feel a deep sense of belonging to the great community of all living things,
and a sense of belonging
to this planet Earth,
and to the entire universe
from which this earth emerged.
Because through God all living beings and things are internally connected with each other.
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