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Contact Experience Discussion
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13 Replies
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I have contact with my friend’s dog, Angel, and she loves me. It feel like the dog loves me too much. It lets me go in her face, just to love on her. It think Angel is sensing something in me.
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My time spent with the Contact Experience technique was truly extraordinary. I felt an appreciation for nature that I had never felt before. I’m so grateful that I signed up for the Getting Started with Nature Connection course.
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It has been wonderful experimenting with all of these things. There is so much to try, I am really just “sampling” it all.
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I actually struggled with this exercise. I found myself thinking too much and had to keep pulling myself back into the moment. I have been practicing during my daily walks for about two weeks. I am seeing some improvement, but still have a ways to go. I have to be more aware of the question, what is happening right now?
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This was the most challenging exercise thus far. Of course, it was the most rewarding, too. As I indicated in my response (part 2 of this exercise), I feel that we are now moving toward developing a relationship with nature. This was deep. My mind wandered easily, but I was able to bring it back to the present via surround sound or open vision. Excellent!
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This exercise is simple yet sometimes very difficult. It can be a challenge to pull myself out of the world going on in my mind and out into the very real world all around me. I know we are connected to everything on the planet, and this helps me to feel in the moment and connected to my immediate surroundings, even just the vegetation life in my backyard and the energy from the sun. This helps me to bring in the feeling out being part of the natural environment, and not just an alien bystander.
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This as the other exercises will take much practice to get good at, but it’s such a profound practice. I was out in nature today doing this and I could feel my body buzzing with aliveness. I also felt relaxed and calm. I’d drift off to thinking and come back again. I want to try this every day!
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I am enjoying all of the lessons and bringing them all together into the experience with nature. I always feel very peaceful and connected in nature and I like how these lessons allow me to expand the experience, really taking in all the nuances of the senses as well as creating a meditative experience while being in the moment. I have a daily meditation practice and this is very similar but instead of at home on my cushion, it’s out in nature, and I’m emersed in an experience all around me and with all of my senses. Similar to seated meditation though in the way that you bring yourself back to center when your thoughts wander. Enjoyable!
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I experienced so many different things about nature that I have never felt before.
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I definitely think that’s the magic of full sensory awareness!
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I can’t wait to see what beings speak to me through these contact experiences. I look forward to fully experienceing both flora and fauna where I live.
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Definitely more challenging. I have a busy brain but I am working on being more mindful and in the present. I was in the woods behind our house but their was a fair amount of afternoon coming home traffic.
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Enjoyed another exercise centered around being present and tuning into feeling prior to acting. I noticed that when operating in FSA, I felt an even stronger connection to nature. Fully immersed, more appreciative of myself and surroundings. Of course, life matters and issues do not disappear, but this practice helps them fade away while a reset occurs, allowing me to contemplate in a more relaxed and unencumbered way, thus developing clarity.