\u201cThe bird\u201d is a good place to begin, because everyone can imagine a bird.<\/span><\/p>\n The meditation exercise consists in the guide asking participants to imagine themselves as a bird. It begins with slipping out of the egg in the warm nest\u2014being hungry and chirping\u2014until one day learning to fly.<\/span><\/p>\n Then the world suddenly seems infinite after the finite boredom and safety of the nest.<\/span><\/p>\n The bird flutters from tree to bush, from flower to fruit, playing around until at a certain moment everything begins to feel familiar, and a desire arises for something higher\u2014to come closer to the light.<\/span><\/p>\n The bird rises.<\/span><\/p>\n It is a beautiful summer day and the warm air currents allow it to fly higher and higher, while beneath it the trees and shrubs grow smaller and the landscape ever wider.<\/span><\/p>\n Higher and higher goes the flight\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n