Well a long while ago one of my many teachers Tom Halliwell did a development class with us, the meditation was on a potato chip. Tom has since passed away and I have all of the worksheets that we used.
I am now a teacher of spiritual things and have a development group. The past couple of weeks I have been encouraged by Tom through meditation to go to the papers and use them. Well I did and oh my, the reaction of the people in the class was not what I expected!
I had the bag of chips on my desk and the everyone wanted to know why the bag was there.
I announced group was going to start and started passing out napkins and chips. Well the giggles and the "are you kidding me" comments were all around. However what happened next was amazing.
In the quite and with instruction we began the "Potato Chip Meditation". Everyone was writing in their journal, the pens were going and going. I keep looking in amazement. Some were giggling and smiling some were tearful and somber. After about 15 min some began to finish and in their amazement some had serious stories about their chips!
It was truly amazing that so much has come of the "chip". Some had experienced sadness when they had to finish, some were left with a longing and needing more. Some were reminded about how much they did not like it and some were reminded of childhood memories, good and bad.
There was an enjoyment in stories of the beginning of the potato and the end result. The salt and crunchiness of it to the greasy and eventually tasteless potato that has been fried.
I applauded all in the class because it was such a simple task and yet it was so hard because of the emotions and healing that was happening, who knew. And all I did was set out to help them learn how to "be" with the chip, in the moment and not think of anything else. It opened up many old wounds and reminded people that they stopped eating them and they won't have another. While some wanted chocolate to go with it ! LOL
Well on to the next class and to the next development!
Have a great night!
