The Enchanted Garden – Oprah & Deepak Meditation Challenge Day 7

I am Love. I am Eternal. I am Spirit.

Day 7 of the ‘Miraculous Relationships’ meditation challenge summed up everything I had learned during the first week and was one of the most powerful and miraculous experiences ever. The first 6 days helped me discover and experience the infinite love and possibility that is part of our essential nature. I attempted to see through the disguises of my ego, uncovering the radiant beauty and joy of my true, eternal self. Today’s lesson was designed to help us soak in the bliss that this revelation has brought into our lives.

Into the Garden

Today, through his powerful words, Deepak led us into a beautiful wooded path which led to a garden. I cannot even begin to describe how we were so gently, yet surely guided into it without leaving our place at all. It was an unparalleled, spiritual experience I am sure to cherish for my life. The mind can be such a wonderful ally when you know how to work it to your benefit. Everything in that enchanted garden was blissful, serene and divine. I stood there, taking it all in. And then the nature surrounding me started to send me messages through the gentle breeze and the song of the rustling leaves that:

• I was as divine as everything else in that place
• I was loved and accepted by them
• I was precious – just because I was there at that moment, beholding it all!
• I did not need to do anything else to become acceptable or to deserve to be loved.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

-Anaïs Nin

Meditation

I did it! The enchanted garden and the awareness of the source of love within made me leave all the  consciousness of my body and my surroundings. I was far, far away in a blissfully peaceful place meditating on the mantra ‘So Hum’ and had to be drawn back to my body when Deepak signalled that it was time to leave the mantra. It is so difficult to explain but I feel happy and joyful. I am actually smiling as I am writing these notes.

The consciousness of what just happened and Deepak’s parting words, reassuring that this enchanted garden and the well of infinite happiness will stay there with me forever, make this so much more meaningful.