Every day at around 4 pm I have an hour of stillness and reflection or simple meditation.
It is at that time because it suits my particular day and life. I sit by the hearth and light a candle and am still.
It is the time I try to connect to the spirit within me, the divine spark within my heart.
Sometimes I listen to music ,but in Spring and Summer I like to sit in silence and so hear the birdsong in the garden.
I often feel that when I'm alone at home(My daughter is grown up and has her own home and my husband is at work) that I am living a kind of nun's life. Solitary , with little contact with others.
I have enjoyed the last decade and this current time for I have had time to study spiritual topics and have my own world to reflect in. I do see other people at choir and at yoga classes twice per week but I'm very much a lone wolf. Partly because life has taught me that some people can be cruel and intolerant but partly because I love my own company and since childhood have my own worlds to get absorbed in.
I have never felt the need to put myself and my views "out there" preferring to work in the back stage of life., voluntary work, absent healing done anonymously.
For my own spiritual practices, I am happiest alone in the woods or by my hearth answerable only to myself and my spirits.
At 61 I feel stronger in myself than I ever have, for I have learned to deal with what is thrown at me with compassionate neutrality and look after myself .I am my own best friend and |I respect myself. I at long last can stand back and look at others from a distance to see a wider view of situations and what is happening to people.
