A few moments with your shoes can change your life. Your worn out boots can show you how you move through life. Your sneakers get tilted, scuffed and stretched out. Your slippers get pressed on, pushed on and shaped from your soul to your sole. Your shoes sit beneath all your movements and they formthemselves to your gesture. Like jello in a mold, your shoes become just like you. Look at them and sense the trail of your activities.
Meditate on Your Loafers
You can even meditate on your shoes. You will find your strength, your fear, your power and yourdistortions all in the contour of the wear of your running shoes. What you will come face to face with inthis process is the mold you press into the world. It is the default shape of your action. You can meetyourself more deeply by opening to the experience of what your worn out loafers tell you about yourself.
You can find great love and compassion for your journey, as you look at the shape pressed into yourhiking boots.
As you meditate on your shoes you are exposing your unconscious, nonverbal patterns. It is a little bit likelooking in a mirror. Your well-worn shoes reflect your life?s rhythms. Your shoes mold to the vibration ofyour path.
The wear of your shoes tells you where you have been. Not physically. Looking at your shoes won?t tellyou that you went to Blockbuster to rent Moonstruck and then stopped in to visit an old friend whooffered you butter cookies she just baked. Instead, the stretching and pulling of the fabric of the shoe willgive you a feeling about how you stretch and pull in your life to make things go the way you want them togo. By opening to this feeling and loving yourself through it, your leather heels can offer a surprisinghealing.
Shoe Meditation:
Sit across from your most worn pair of running shoes or your oldest hiking boots or your most tatteredpair of slippers. Just look at them for awhile. Look at them as if you have never seen them before. Whenyou feel ready, follow these 3 steps:
1. Notice how intimately the life force within you interacts with the physical world through your shoes.Look at any points of wear, stretch or tug that are apparent in the shape of the shoes. Get a sense of howresponsive the physical world is to your gesture.
2. Notice your body?s lines of force as they are written into your shoes. Become sensitive to the shape ofyour action as it is molded into the fabric of each shoe.
3. Love yourself through your shoes. You may see some asymmetries or distortions that remind you ofaspects of yourself that you struggle with. Send yourself love by opening to these patterns and by simplyloving your worn out old shoes. You may see aspects of your character that you love reflected in yourshoes. Enjoy a moment of feeling those noble and brilliant qualities reflected in the artwork of your feet asthey have created your shoes? wear pattern. Sit for a while in the jello of your shoes. Love and appreciatethe shape of your life-force-jello-mold.
Virtual Shoes
Now that you have spent a little time in love and acceptance of your human patterns by embracing themessage of your old shoes, let?s make some new, intentional shoes. These shoes won?t soak up theinfluence of your unconscious patterns the way the leather and canvas did.
These virtual shoes offer youan influence of your choosing. You can create these shoes out of any material, any color and mostimportantly, any qualities you choose. And in the same way that you influenced your old shoes, your newshoes will influence you. You can make these virtual shoes of love or wisdom or prosperity. You can makethem shoes of a specific skill, like slide guitar-playing shoes or French pastry baking shoes or publicspeaking shoes.
As you have fun creating all kinds of new virtual shoes, you will find that certain ones feel like home. Theyfeel empowering and comfortable. They lift your posture and tickle you into a smile. Those are the onesyou will want to wear the most often. And unlike your physical shoes, which mold themselves to you themore you wear them, your virtual shoes will stay true to their nature. You will gradually gel into theshape of your virtual shoes as they influence you toward your desired qualities the more you wear them.
Wearing your virtual shoes, you will become more intimate with the nature of love or wisdom orprosperity. You will imbibe the lines of force needed for expert guitar playing or pastry baking or empirebuilding. You will learn to know and love yourself as a musician or baker or entrepreneur. And the morethese shoes wear you in, the more like them you will become.
Virtual Shoe Meditation:
To begin this process, notice an area of your life in which you feel an intense desire. It may be a spiritualdesire. You may want to feel more connected to God or to feel unconditionally loving toward all beings orto live a life of joyful service. It may be an interpersonal desire. You can use your new virtual shoes toassist you in creating a loving relationship or to improve the quality of communication in your currentinteractions. If you are steeped in a material desire, your virtual shoes may hold the lines of force necessary for owning a vintage blues guitar or a professional pastry kitchen or a palace on your owntropical island. Once you have a sense of the influence you desire, get a sense of the shoes that embodythat quality and sit across from your new virtual shoes and follow these three steps:
1. Notice how beautiful they are. Notice how good you feel when you look at them. If you don?t feel goodwhen you get a sense about them (a visual image is not necessary) keep reconstructing them, reinventingthem, recreating them until you really like them, until you get a feeling of ease and happiness and reliefwhen you ponder them.
2. Notice how resilient they are. They are made of the stuff of the quality you chose, love, wisdom,prosperity, French pastry skill. No matter how you twist them or press on them, they spring right backinto their true nature. These shoes reveal the joy in these qualities and they make the qualities easy toaccess.
3. Get a sense of putting these shoes on your feet and becoming one with the quality of the shoes. Realizethat with every stretch and bump and pressure exerted by your walking you are being influenced towardunconditional love or prosperity. The shoes maintain their quality and you are being molded toward yourdesire.
Every morning as you choose from your physical shoes, look in your mind for a pair of virtual shoes towear for the day. As you see your physical sneakers getting more and more like your feet, know that youare getting more and more like your virtual shoes. As you move through your day, feel your invisiblefootwear leading you toward your desire. See if your posture changes as you recall that you are wearingyour love sandals. See if your outlook brightens as you stroll through the park at sunset in your prosperitypumps. By letting yourself be molded to the intention of your virtual shoes you bring yourself into greateralignment with your soul?s intention.
? Rebbie Straubing
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Rebbie is a workshop leader, Abraham Coach, and writer.
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