A Zen Exercise of Mental Imagery for Experiencing Process, Not Product

A Zen Exercise of Mental Imagery for Experiencing Process (present), Not Product (future)

Close your eyes and find yourself sitting in the Pharaoh’s Posture.

Perform the Relaxing Breath, knowing that you are learning to concentrate on intentions instead of goals and that it takes 30 to 45 seconds.

Now see yourself as your own Zen master. See yourself dressed in a robe with an obi sash tied around it.

You have with you a golden bow and a golden quiver that holds one golden arrow.

The target is in front of you.  You arrange yourself now to shoot the arrow at the target.

You set your left shoulder perpendicular to the target.

Your rear foot is pointed in the same direction as you are standing.

Your front foot is turned 90 degrees, to face the target.

Your posture is quite straight. You sense and feel yourself tall and erect.

You are breathing evenly and regularly.

And you now remove the golden arrow from its quiver, which is slung over your shoulder.

You take the arrow and you turn your bow in a 45 degree angle upwards and put the golden arrow into the bow.

You set the end of the arrow into the string of the bow, hold the wooden frame of the bow very tightly, and pull the string back with your right hand, very tautly and tightly, with great strength.

Then, you set the bow at a 90 degree angle facing the target. Still maintaining the same posture, you turn your head to look at the target.

You turn left. You look directly at the bull’s eye.

Breathe out one more time. You are there in front of the target.

You are about to release the arrow, and just before you do, there in the image, close your eyes so you no longer see the target, and release the arrow.

Then breathe out and open your eyes in the image to see where the arrow has landed.

See what happens. Breathe out and open your eyes.

Kabbalah For Inner Peace,
Gerald Epstein, MD