{"id":1566,"date":"2021-10-12T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:34:30","slug":"summer-is-officially-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/summer-is-officially-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Is Officially Over"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last night’s BBQ on the Traeger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It is cold out this morning, literally cold. I woke up to -8 Celsius temperatures, a \u201chard\u201d frost as it is called around here. Summer is officially over and winter will soon make its entrance changing our lives here on the Canadian prairies. Outdoor nudity will become more and more of a rarity. With the coming of winter, I tend to shift from outdoor meditation to indoor sitting meditation. I\u2019m not sure about most other people, but nude meditation has been a significant part of my life for more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a few [actually more than a few] others who find time for nude meditation in some form or other. For some it is based on yogic practice. For others, it has to do with calming inner demons. And for some, the practice is all about spiritual connection. For me, it is a combination of taming the darkness and opening myself to the universe and connecting to my roots in the universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no religious attachment to meditation though I did begin meditation practice 49 years ago via Transcendental Meditation workshops with some kind of guru on the prairies. Ten years ago, I reached out to Tibetan Buddhism and learned to include conscious walking meditation while learning to be a Buddhist.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Meditation in a field of clover 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Today, I can\u2019t claim to be a Buddhist. I don\u2019t have the discipline or the inclination. My strong roots in Jungian psychology and my acceptance of being an individual [individuation] on a journey of self-discovery are barriers to my being able to commit to any outside authority when it comes to self and soul. My spirituality comes from within, not from some some guru, prophet, saviour, or cult leader. This isn\u2019t said to diminish the paths and choices of others, it is simply a statement of who and how I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I meditate nude. This doesn\u2019t define me as I do many other things while nude such as gardening, carpentry, writing, sleeping, and drinking tea, coffee and wine. Yet, meditating nude does add another layer that needs to be known if an \u201cother\u201d is to know me in more than a two-dimensional being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For too many people, meditation, either nude or clothed, doesn\u2019t fit into their lives. There is no time, no focus, no certainty that the time spent meditating will give them benefits. Though I began meditation, consciously committing to meditation, forty-nine years ago, there have been long periods where \u201clife\u201d was too filled for me to continue the practice. I gave up these sacred moments for stuff and activity and wasted hours, believing I had no time. Those beliefs crippled me for a long time. Thankfully, I survived and I retired [sort of] and pulled the pieces of me back together like some artist using powdered gold to make a lacquer to weld those pieces into a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you meditate? Do you meditate nude? Why or why not? I am hoping to hear your story, your experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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