09/08/2025
🌲✨ Meditation in the Wild ✨🌲
My meditation practice has been… off lately. Not just a little, but really off. What used to be a daily ritual has been lucky to happen once a week. So today, I took myself to the forest, seeking solitude and stillness.
Except stillness didn’t come easy. Instead of sinking into silence, I felt the pull to scroll reels and wander off in thought. That’s when the question arose: what is it to be present?
So instead of forcing quiet, I simply allowed.
• I heard a lawnmower in the distance and smiled, remembering summer days from my childhood.
• I heard girls giggling on the trail behind me and felt gratitude for their friendship.
• A school of fish leapt across the lake, and I loved their wild rhythm.
• Overhead, an airplane passed, and I followed it with my mind for just a moment.
I didn’t cling to any of it. I just noticed. Appreciated. Let each sound and sight move through me.
And maybe that’s the heart of it: meditation isn’t about perfection or emptying the mind. Sometimes it’s simply about being here, grateful, open, present.
💛 Today, that was enough. Maybe for you, it can be too.
