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Nadirah Chee
· 5 April, 2022 at 2:16 pm
I went to Mecca to perform my pilgrimage. There were rites that I had to learn and perform at Mecca, Saudi Arabia. In performing the pilgrimage, I was allowed to better appreciate my religion and community I grow up in.
Shu Ning Poh
· 28 March, 2022 at 3:41 am
I physically experienced being a pilgrim on my 12 day expedition to Annapurna basecamp in Nepal. It was a life changing journey and a poignant metaphor for life. I learned to be present with myself during the prolonged periods of hiking in solitude, contemplate about life through the eyes of nature, emerging with a sense of gratitude for my body, for life, and the wisdom that nature imparted on me on this unexpected spiritual journey.
Within the therapeutic context, I also experience being a pilgrim or as Yalom puts it a fellow "traveller" without distinctions between 'them' (the afflicted) and 'us' (the healers). … We are all in this together, and there is no therapist and no person immune to the inherent tragedies of existence. We may or may not be able to reach a "holy" or "spiritual" internal place at times with the person whom we are journeying with, but I can offer my full presence to the experiences in the therapeutic space.
weisstj74@gmail.com
· 15 June, 2020 at 8:49 am
I believe in life you have to take in that around you, you need to stop, enjoy the sounds, the smells and be in th moment. I try to always be the pilgrim, to enjoy the moment not just rush through it. Being on my couch, cuddling up with my children, listening to their laughter and just being with them..this is my best place to be a pilgrim.
suzannekingpsych@gmail.com
· 14 May, 2020 at 11:35 am
I have just last week become a grandmother for the first time and I believe I experience being a pilgrim when I hold him and become immersed in his sounds, movements and breath. I notice so much detail and feel drawn in to this new experience. It has certainly changed me!
chrisstewart501@me.com
· 18 January, 2020 at 9:52 am
I had an interesting experience when I decided to have an exhibition of paintings based on the Foreshore Walk in Glebe. It is a walk I do most days for exercise. When I realised I had to find subjects for paintings I looked at things far more carefully and found to my amazement that I saw things I had never noticed before, even though I had been doing this walk for years. Oysters on the rocks, patterns of shadows on the pavement, a set of steps, views across the water – it greatly enhanced my experience of that walk.
dwkfish2@gmail.com
· 17 February, 2019 at 4:11 am
At 6am in the morning when meditating about my life and family
6 Comments
Nadirah Chee · 5 April, 2022 at 2:16 pm
I went to Mecca to perform my pilgrimage. There were rites that I had to learn and perform at Mecca, Saudi Arabia. In performing the pilgrimage, I was allowed to better appreciate my religion and community I grow up in.
Shu Ning Poh · 28 March, 2022 at 3:41 am
I physically experienced being a pilgrim on my 12 day expedition to Annapurna basecamp in Nepal. It was a life changing journey and a poignant metaphor for life. I learned to be present with myself during the prolonged periods of hiking in solitude, contemplate about life through the eyes of nature, emerging with a sense of gratitude for my body, for life, and the wisdom that nature imparted on me on this unexpected spiritual journey.
Within the therapeutic context, I also experience being a pilgrim or as Yalom puts it a fellow "traveller" without distinctions between 'them' (the afflicted) and 'us' (the healers). … We are all in this together, and there is no therapist and no person immune to the inherent tragedies of existence. We may or may not be able to reach a "holy" or "spiritual" internal place at times with the person whom we are journeying with, but I can offer my full presence to the experiences in the therapeutic space.
weisstj74@gmail.com · 15 June, 2020 at 8:49 am
I believe in life you have to take in that around you, you need to stop, enjoy the sounds, the smells and be in th moment. I try to always be the pilgrim, to enjoy the moment not just rush through it. Being on my couch, cuddling up with my children, listening to their laughter and just being with them..this is my best place to be a pilgrim.
suzannekingpsych@gmail.com · 14 May, 2020 at 11:35 am
I have just last week become a grandmother for the first time and I believe I experience being a pilgrim when I hold him and become immersed in his sounds, movements and breath. I notice so much detail and feel drawn in to this new experience. It has certainly changed me!
chrisstewart501@me.com · 18 January, 2020 at 9:52 am
I had an interesting experience when I decided to have an exhibition of paintings based on the Foreshore Walk in Glebe. It is a walk I do most days for exercise. When I realised I had to find subjects for paintings I looked at things far more carefully and found to my amazement that I saw things I had never noticed before, even though I had been doing this walk for years. Oysters on the rocks, patterns of shadows on the pavement, a set of steps, views across the water – it greatly enhanced my experience of that walk.
dwkfish2@gmail.com · 17 February, 2019 at 4:11 am
At 6am in the morning when meditating about my life and family