Dear Friends,
Here is a guided meditation that has been tried and tested by many people over the years.
This was recorded when I was living in Geneva. The music is by Pierre Vaucher, a classically trained Swiss musician who is also an award winning composer specializing in film scores.
We met by chance when I overheard him playing piano in Crans Montana, a small Swiss mountain town known for hiking and skiing, and is in the French speaking part of country. He was surrounded by beautiful Francophone women swooning over him as he played.
When he stopped playing, the women dissipated, and I walked across the long room to tell him briefly how nice his music was. I discovered that he was a professional musician and that we shared an interest in Eastern philosophy.
We also share an affinity for croissants with extra crispy edges (best topped with jam or honey), and a Swiss sandwich known as Silsersli mit Bünderfleisch. (Translating into English does not do justice to the delicious taste of a bread roll that has a pretzel like skin because it is boiled in lye and filled with thin slices of air dried beef prepared in a manner as it has for centuries by farmers living under harsh conditions in the mountains of Canton Graubünden, which by the way is home of St. Moritz where the shi-shi go to ski, and where the rich and mighty convene in Davos.)*
We created this as an experiment in collaboration along with other pieces, which unfortunately, I cannot share due to copyright reasons as that is now owned by others. My hope is that one day, we can work together again and create more music to share with you.
Rx: Please consider adding this guided meditation to your mental hygiene tool kit.
You can listen and do the guided meditation any time you are feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
You can also listen to this as a part of your mental hygiene routine, for instance when you come home from work and want to shift gears and demarcate the boundary between your work and personal time.
To your health!
* Hope you enjoyed the longest run on sentence I have ever written, along with the little foray into some of the things that make Switzerland special including a sandwich made with white bread and red meat, whose taste can be enhanced by a smear of butter, and is clearly not for vegans, vegetarians or anyone worried about their cholesterol.
PS. By the way, if you ever want a tour guide, just ask and I can tell you where to find some of the country’s finest chocolate chip buns (Schoggiweggeli), chocolate mousse cake and hot chocolate; and on which side of the train to sit for best views of the Lavaux vineyards; and on which side of the cable car to stand for the best views as you ascend from Lauterbrunnen to Mürren.
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