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| Ocean Beach Copyright Matthew James |
Imagine a beach ... the first image of a beach that springs to mind. The wind is blowing hard through your hair. It is a cold wind. You shiver and pull tight your simple robe. Concentrate on this. Bring this image to mind at the exclusion of all others. You are cold. You are shivering. Your bare feet are numb with the touch of freezing water on them. The water in which you stand is only a matter of a couple of inches deep - no deeper. Look at your feet. Look at the sand. Golden sand. Look at the water, it is golden too. The sun has only just gone down. Look and you will see its last traces on a golden horizon. A golden horizon turning black in places where the cosmos is breaking through the clouds. Concentrate. Look to your left and see the dark shapes of the rocks the pinnacles which make up this part of the shore line. Concentrate. Good ... now walk towards the nearest rocks. Walk slowly. You will still be shivering. You will be drenched with sea spray. There will be a taste of salt on your lips. Notice your feet ... they are beginning to sink into the sand. You will notice it is much harder not to walk. Your feet are being sucked into the sand. Relax. You now find it impossible to walk without sinking to your ankles ... then to your knees. Stop. Stay perfectly still. You have a problem here. You are too heavy for the sand. I have the solution. A solution which will require much mental imagery from you...read more>>>...