When I am creating, it is like being in a meditative state. One of my favorite practices are the creation of mandalas.
Some of my fellow teachers create a mandala nearly every day as a way of increasing self-awareness and as a mindfulness practice.
Why Meditate?
Deepak Chopra would say I am a seeker. My whole life I have felt as if I have had one foot grounded in the real, material world and the other foot in a place of seeking answers to ancient existential questions like why are we really here and what is life really about?
When I retired after 36 years in the corporate world, I became a student and embarked on a self-imposed spiritual learning quest. I learned about the major wisdom traditions, different belief systems about the soul and the laws of the universe. I studied
Imagination
Einstein said imagination is more important than knowledge.
During my Vision Quest studies, I began to realize that my imagination had stagnated. In business school and in corporate life, I was a left brain thinker looking at the world from a rational, objective, logical standpoint.