Practicing Presence and Openness with Outdoor Sounds

Deb Arndt offers the following exercise… Start with prayer and breath and become centered in your own body. Become attentive to what you are hearing in the soundscape around you. Give yourself over to the sound that is coming to you right then. What surfaces? Is there something there to pay attention to? In Deb‘s case, it was a sound that annoyed her Remain there. Make room. Don’t force a connection or an application. What surfaces that might need some attention? Choose how you want to end it - read something, be grateful. Play with the exercise above. Let it morph into your own experience.