Many years ago, I was introduced to a meditation technique by Diana Please as part of one of her intensives.  I can't recall if it was her trance or her seidhr intensive, but that doesn't matter.  The technique has stuck with me and been adapted a few different ways ever since.  The technique is best described as doing meditation or trance through another object or being.

What we were told to do was to find a tree. Hug the tree. Get to know the tree.  Then, while touching tree, put our consciousnesses into the tree.  When this is done, do a tree meditation, aka the two powers meditations.  I did this with a young tree and felt very constrained as I couldn't ready l reach as far as I normally do.

I have taken this technique into other parts of my life, such as Reiki.  A practice I now often include in my work is to open the person up, put my consciousness into their body, and do the tree meditation.  I pull the energies through them, a large quantity of it, and have found it effectively cleans them out.  The one downside of it though is I have to leave them in a reasonable energy state for them, maybe slightly higher than normal and let them ground down to normal.

This past weekend, I got to try something to the extreme.  Lorrie Wood was kind enough to take me to Muir Woods to visit the redwoods.  First off, the landscape in the redwoods is just alien.  I've been in woods all around the world and never felt so out of place as I did there.  At one point though i was able to get into a redwood, and do this tree meditation through the tree.

What an experience.  First thing i noticed was how massive and old the tree was.  Once over that, it was time to search for the waters.  Going down, I find a tight network of roots.  Next thing I notice is that I am not in one tree, I'm in many. Let me tell you, that was disturbing.  So I pull up water, then turn up.  I'm now turning up in multiple places, and i honestly was not ready for that.  I was getting a bit disoriented, and could tell that I needed to get out of that.  I admit some defeat.  Those trees are amazing, and are a network, but single trees.  Next time, I will be prepared.

For anyone reading this.  I encourage you to try this exercise with your local trees.  Find one.  Introduce yourself. Maybe make an offering to it. Get to know it. Put yourself into it and work through the tree to do a tree meditation.  This is a highly worthwhile experience, especially if you continue to this with the same tree over an extended period of time. Just beware that the redwoods are much larger and rather unique relative to other trees out there, and they offer their own challenges.