I like to ground in what words mean and can mean to one’s embodied experience. The word sanctuary means (from a dictionary, definition sense) place of “safety and refuge”, with that in heart, I ask you to meditate on the following self-reflective questions to deepen into what sanctuary means to you (as a living, breathing inquiry). Perhaps right them in a journal you can use to be your companion over this next month.
What words describe a sanctuary?
What people, places, things, symbols, elements, or components in your own world give you a feeling of sanctuary?
What could a sanctuary feel like? (in mind, in body, in energy, in emotions)?
What does a sanctuary need?
What would it feel like for that sanctuary to be within yourself? How possible does that feel? Have there been times, moments, seconds in your life that you have sensed this? What was that like, what did that involve, what did you notice?
What does a sanctuary allow for…? What does that space offer? How might a sanctuary support you?
there is no needed formal meditation on these questions, let them live in you as you move through your day. Move through your tasks and to-dos. I invite you to simply live with them like little seeds that will bring forward to you, your own quality and curiosity of what your own sanctuary space can feel like. Through honest exploration one can sense what the sanctuary within oneself truly needs and can be.
