How to set a focus before doing a meditaton.

Listening with your Hands

Ideally, when we are listening to someone else speak, an internal part of our selves becomes quiet. What the other says to us becomes the center of our focus. If we are running an internal, personal commentary while trying to listen we quite possibly will miss out on some or all of what the other person has to say.

With a mineral meditation, we can "listen" with our hands. The quiet, attentive feeling of really listening can be transferred to the feeling in your hands as you hold a mineral.

Sometimes you can gauge whether you are "listening" or not by checking in with how you are holding the mineral or crystal. There is a tendency to want to hold the mineral tightly, like a tool you are trying to use. "Listening" to the mineral involves holding it very lightly and also very attentively - allowing it to show you rather than trying to "use" it.