A 'Disney" moment?!

I had an experence the other day that made me a little uncomfortable, but yet it was beautiful.
I have been going to a place out doors to do my qigung and my 24 form T'ai chi early in the mornings. It's in a grove of trees on the campus of an arts school near where I live.
Now I am not one for 'mystical” experences per sey,  but when I was doing a move called “holding up the heavens like a pillar” I noticed that things got very still. This is where the 'Disney” thing comes in. There were birds and other little animals gathered around me-just watching-not running around–just watching. I could not sense any fear in them at all. I went on with my routine and I felt so one with the earth–everything smelled sharper-the grass and the ground and the leaves.
Then when I finished-a bird-blue-Jay I think, started to trill, the sound came up from the earth into the roots of the trees and through the body of the bird-so pure, so unhurried.
For a moment, I felt all my breath leave me.
I am I nuts or what??
I can't quite figure this out. Do I need to?

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What sheer delight! I think it's one to savour, not necessarily to analyse. What do you think, Liz?

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Namaste Lizzy,
What a profound and beautiful experience. Thank you for sharing this I find it very moving.

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I don't know if you would call this a “spiritual' experence per se but the other day when I was riding my bike, I took an new section on the bike path. I just rode and rode–time seemed to stand still–I was totally transfixed by the air, sun, the living creatures, a lot of chipmonks and birds.
Any way, before I knew it, I had ridden ten miles. I rode back home and my rear was a bit tender, but it was such a high.

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I think it is a times like you describe, Liz, that we are most alive. It is a great thrill!

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When you are at one with the universe, the universe replies with total acceptance. This type of event happens to me a lot, especially when wild animals are in the mix. Animals have a way of sensing your true nature and often respond accordingly. I feed the wild animals in my yard. I sustain about 100 birds and 10-15 squirrels, and rabbits with birdseed and wild rabbit food. Many times, I come by after they have been eating a while and the animals just continue eating as if I am not there. They also announce when “the benefactor” has come home.  Wild animals I encounter wherever I am often check me out or are curious about me.

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That is so cool, Mr! I'd love to see your back yard, it sounds like a wonderland.

Love,

Nicole

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Hey Mr! Can I come and do my Chi in your backyard????
It sound great.
I have been thinking of putting up a birdfeeder on my back porch. I have heard that the birds will eat the bugs that might harm my 'garden”.

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Sure,
But its a 3,000 mile trip for you.

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Well, it's good to be able to visit virtually! :)

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Or… through your mind's eye. Then my place could look like anything you want it to.

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That's the glory of imagination.

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beloved
I want to say Lizzyl, yes you are nuts as judged by society. Your moment was/is so special and you can have again  and again. Gotama Siddhartha and many others say that one must look outside the box. Even their box.
I now meditate 24/7. I experience those moments anytime I want to and any place. For many years I thought my practice was a failure. It just was getting it together.
Some times my meditation is “better” than other time, especially when I do “formal” meditation and all my life is meditation. I grok this, among many other ways, cuz little kids stare and stare at me. They are looking at my original me, my beginner me that I let bubble under the surface all the time; the one I am really liviing and they are so pleased with it. It made me uncomfortable at first until I got over that this is not about ego, this is about truth. Animals do the same thing. Dogs I have never met stare and stare. All my life is yoga/movement and breath and chanting/sound and color and meditation and I have a 40 hour job and I meditate all the time there also. So wierd is what you let be wierd. Strange and uncomfortable is asking us to get comfortable with it.
belover iljung

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animals love chi and our neighbours cats are no exception - when I do energy work with a group or alone they are there by our feet, they respond and enjoy and accept.
in acknowledgement
Tai

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iljung and tai,

wonderful perspectives on how animals tune in to meditation and chi, thank you!

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Seems like my plants love chi too.
I have been meditating in my garden and the veggies are running riot.
Seems like our life force can be transfered to things all around us!

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I'd agree on that one Lizzyl…our energy affects everything around us including veggies, plants, people, animals, birds, insects…We were doing a meditation with symbols on a special board with geometric designs inscribed on it that had been energised by several groups and a bee came in and circled the board, just like it was enjoying the energy and saying thank you to us - as soon as he'd completed a circuit of the energised board he flew off outside!

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awesome, liz and tai :) just love you two!

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I know I am going on ad nausam, but I never can stop being amazed at how things are growing on my back pourch.
My neighbor gave me a Tibeten prayer flag the other day and it just completes my garden space wonderfully.
This is my first time out with a garden too.
I just seem to breath easier these days when I look at my plants.
It is a deep spiritual experence.
Namaste.

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I was tending my garden this morning and it came to me, what a very deep spiritual experence it really is-you guys can read in my blog for more detail, but it occured to me how much this connects me to my roots too.

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Thanks Liz, great blog!

To make it easier to find for others to read:

Roots in my Garden