My meditation exercise
Imagine you are living in the wilderness with a few close family and friends. The weather always makes your surroundings look beautiful. You garden with your family and sometimes stop to lay in the grass and study a colony of ants on a perfect sunny day. You spend your nights around a campfire, telling stories of all kinds, you play instruments and dance and sing and smile, you sit quietly and enjoy a starry night around the fire. You and your tribe of family/friends build and collect and forage almost everything you'd need. You spend your time tending to crops, fixing odds and ends around your house and yard, you cook and clean as a family and you have dogs and cats who are all free to roam around your house and yard as they please. You are all free and happy and healthy. Your minds are clear and you live in the moment. Emotion and nature drive you and enrich your life. Your life is utter simplicity and humanity. Your concept of money and social status are nill. You go on trips around the country and world with your family to learn about different places. You have skills that will let you survive and thrive in almost any situation. You have a close connection with your environment and the things you get from it. You know the ways of the creatures who share the world with you. The concept of work is all but vanished, work is part of life and it comes from necessity and direct effect to and from your lifestyle. You have much leisure time and nearly no concept of boredom. You are not wasteful, mindless, numb, or hurried. You usually have no place to be, no time to be there. You are extremely bonded to your family and the connection is real and mutually supportive. Your life is built by you and helped by those directly around you. You no longer wait for life to happen, but acknowledge and live for the present. You are at peace, and your problems are as simple and fleeting as any of your daily events. Life is complete and rich and more than perfect.