This week's morning Nuddhism thoughts and experiences...

Monday:

Twitter morning update:

~*Ganesha*~ @ganesha1967
Monday morning #nuddhism at 54F (8°C), drizzle and wind - this wakes me up really fast. Summer feelings are inward, while I'm wearing goosebumps.

Wednesday:

My personal three-steps program to greet a day the happy way, even if I have to get up early to get to work:

1. Set the shower to lukewarm, almost cold water, emulating standing skyclad in summer rain;
2. Brew some extra-strong black coffee (Mocha blend), sweetened richly;
3. Take a mug of that brew, step out on my balcony, barefoot and nude, inhaling the fresh morning air deeply, looking up into the sky above and the trees in my back yard, a slight breeze carressing my skin.

Friday:

A tropical night and a humid morning... 68F (22°C), cloudy and thunderstorms imminent... starting my nuddhist morning ritual, I set my shower to almost cold, to refresh myself, before stepping out onto my balcony, skyclad, feeling the balmy air all around me, listening to birdsong, sipping on my strong and sweet coffee...
Once again, I sigh, thinking about the stupid social taboos, that prevent me from just staying nude, when having to go out to get to work later on. The current weather conditions are ideal to spend the day naked. I would love to be in a place, where I could just be and meditate on Mother Nature's beauty and send invocations of love and confirmation to all the wonderful beings dwelling in my heart.

Saturday:

Morning Nuddhism at 58F (14°C)... wispy cirrus clouds in a blue sky, a slight breeze makes the tall poplar trees sway like lithe dancers, clad in bright green, lit by the rising sun. I listen to merry birdsong, breathe the mild and fresh air, greeting the day clad in the morning breeze.

Now, to all those people believing that nuditiy is something indecent or sexual only: it's (among other things, such as my favourite state of being) also a source for almost poetic thought, as you can read here.

Remember your roots...

Since modern human beings evolved on the African continent, later migrating from there, we are all children of Mama Afrika - one of Mother Nature's beautiful sisters.

Fight the Power, Mama Nature!

Today at work, I saw that brave little plant pushing through a gravel bed, and I just had to take a picture, and turn it into this little Mama Nature Motivational.

Dancing my chakras... the nuddhist ~*Ganesha*~ Avatar

"Meditation in the nude is a freeing, liberating experience that if done with the right mindset, allows you a far greater sense of being connected to the world around you and a strengthened sense of self.  You can find many, many things to meditate on while meditating in the nude.  The feel of the air on your skin, the sensation of the material you are sitting on, the coolness (or warmth) of the air and more.  All of those things will help you gain a better insight and understanding about your own body."

From: http://thezenhippie.com/blog/meditations/nude-meditation-and-you/ 

"Nude meditation takes it all back to the first moment when you are still in direct communion with Spirit. There is no Armani suit to strengthen the self esteem. There is no shoe collection showing what a fantastic sense of fashion you have. It's just you and Spirit. Which, essentially, is where you always are but forget in the process of putting on the facade of the ego

Spirit knows you. Spirit is you and you are Spirit. There is no separation. Separation is an illusion. All the distractions, all the theories, all the messages that tell you otherwise are all constructions the ego comes up with to feel independent. These distractions are just that, distractions. Ultimately, they are all false. When it all comes down to it, you simply are. 

You are not your body. You are not your mind. You are not the car you drive. You are not the heart beating in your chest. You simply are. It is called the "I am" presence. It is all there is.

(...) Nude meditation will make you feel self-conscious. It will make you feel silly. Move through these feelings, they are the voice of the ego telling you what you think you know. When you have moved through all the ego stuff, nude meditation will help you find your self. Your "I am" presence. Then you will know the one thing that is the truth... Love"

 From: http://www.energy-healing-info.com/nude-meditation.html

How to let out the inner child...

A simple piece of wisdom I made from one of my mud puddle barefooting pictures:

A sunny Sunday, shopping on a medieval market

Sunday was a fun day (not just according to that famous Bangles song), since I had the opportunity to get out barefoot in nicely sunny weather, with temperatures around 25°C (77F) in the shade and visit a medieval market at Broich castle, a former medieval stronghold.

Since there is a large park adjacent to that castle, I had the pleasure of feeling nicely soft grass underfoot. I adapted to the visitors (mostly either goth people or those dressed in medieval-style garb) by dressing in black, but still keeping up to my true name by wearing a black t-shirt with a Ganesha print on it. I had decked out all my toe nails in golden-glittery nail polish and was wearing my usual anklets and toe rings, too.

Here, I already tried wearing a bit of what I bought there as a possible new toe ring... more of my shopping booty later...

Of course, enjoying such a market also meant havign nice food and drink... the food part was covered by a typical Alsatian specialty: Flammekueche (the Alsatian pizza, so to speak) and for drinks I had several pints of mead beer (actually, regular beer with a large dash of mead in it... kind of risky in hot sunny weather, but I was fine).

Flammekueche - Alsatian yummy stuff...

Since I am invited to visit a party this coming Friday, with the hostess also being of the goth and medieval market visitor kind, I also shopped for some yummy beverages to bring (she announced it to be a BYOB event)... and so, here's the drinkstuffs I brought home from that market:

blueberry wine...

...quince wine...

...and honey schnapps (called "Hammer" for a reason... I sampled it at the sales stand. And 60 per cent alcohol content makes it the only inflammable honey product I've tried so far...)

Other than yummy food and drinks, I also found some nice jewelry items (rings, in particular) and a nice leather bag, which I can use as a stylish belt pouch (even though this is kind of an oxymoron, since belt pouches and/or hip bags are rarely seen as stylish).

my newest rings...

two steel rings with pentagrams

A flexible glass pearl band, with a clump of rose quartz and amethyst bits (which can also be worn as a toe ring, as shown above).

A funky brass ring with a walnut-sized dome of gold and turquoise pearls

A nice naturally colored suede leather pouch.

A nice barefoot Sunday day-out... and the market season has just started... the next one in my vicinity will be the "Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum" at Dortmund in about three weeks (June 16 & 17), also held in a park, therefore at another barefoot-friendly venue.

For that market, I will dress up more hippie-style, and certainly utilizing some of the nice goods I bought at Broich, too.

Nuddhism is happiness... Witness ~*Ganesha*~ dancing