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Cocooning is [[Connection Practice]] designed to help establish a safe place where you can heal and practice connection. A cocoon is a bedroom in your house, a meditation room, or any place where you are free of threat and where you can have an hour or so on your own to meditate, practice mindfulness, or engage in some other [[Connection Practice]].   
A Cocoon is a safe place, like your home or a room in your house, where you are free of threat and negativity, and where you can have the time and space you need to engage in [[Connection Practice]].   
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==Notes==
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A cocoon is a bedroom in your house,  a meditation room, or any place where you are free of threat and where you can have an hour or so on your own.
Cocooning is a thing in Islamic mystical practice. Muhammad's withdrawal from society in the cave on Mount Hira outside Mecca for the purpose of meditation was seen by later mystics as the basis for the systematic practice of seclusion...."<ref>Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. https://amzn.to/2SoFmun. p. 48.</ref>
 
Muhammad's withdrawal from society in the cave on Mount Hira outside Mecca for the purpose of meditation was seen by later mystics as the basis for the systematic practice of seclusion...."<ref>Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. https://amzn.to/2SoFmun. p. 48.</ref>


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A Cocoon is a safe place, like your home or a room in your house, where you are free of threat and negativity, and where you can have the time and space you need to engage in Connection Practice.

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Cocooning is a thing in Islamic mystical practice. Muhammad's withdrawal from society in the cave on Mount Hira outside Mecca for the purpose of meditation was seen by later mystics as the basis for the systematic practice of seclusion...."[1]

Footnotes

  1. Ernst, Carl W. The Shambhala Guide to Sufism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997. https://amzn.to/2SoFmun. p. 48.