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Meditation is seeing something about yourself so clearly that what you see no longer has the same power over you anymore. You cannot see something if you are refusing to look at it – so the first step in clear seeing is not judging your busy mind before you have even started! Change the thought that you need to get your mind to be quiet.

Doubt and confusion often kick in here because seeing yourself clearly doesn’t seem like its nearly as worthwhile a pursuit as getting your mind to stop.  Your mind is telling you it knows better! Perhaps you can’t imagine yet the experience of clarity that is absolutely available to you…

Thoughts provide the way to this experience.  They are something you have the capacity to ‘separate from’ and observe.

This involves developing our ability to recognise all the ways we react to this material – or stay identified with it where it pulls us in so much that we are lost in it, off in our heads, split from our body.

At first we don’t recognise this identification until we snap out of it, only to be sucked in almost straight away. This is the process for everyone.

Later we can notice ourselves ‘go under’, and this moment is the key. Over time, we begin to stay in this moment, separate from thoughts and watching them. This already denies them some of their power but they usually put up quite a fight first – convincing us of their necessity! Here you develop your focus, refuse to be sucked in anymore and break free. If you stick with it there is lightness and empowerment.

This is the process of meditation; over and over – breaking bonds with past experience, with outdated ideas. The reason it happens ‘over and over’ is that the bonds get deeper, the ideas are more engrained with seemingly no possible alternative – for which you need to develop even stronger focus – and an even more open mind. This then brings deeper experience of yourself as something other than thoughts and emotions.

Begin then, check in to see if your ideas about meditation are outdated and are actually oscillating away to keep you in exactly the same place.

 

 

When we become aware that the busyness of our minds causes disatisfaction it is natural to assume that the solution is to get it to be quiet and we approach meditation with this logic.

This sets us up for failure before we have started – because we all know how difficult this is. If this is your approach, it is time to rethink what meditation is. 

Meditation is seeing something about yourself so clearly that what you see no longer has the same power over you anymore. You cannot see something if you are refusing to look at it – so the first step in clear seeing is not judging your busy mind before you have even started! Change the thought that you need to get your mind to be quiet.

Doubt and confusion often kick in here because seeing yourself clearly doesn’t seem like its nearly as worthwhile a pursuit as getting your mind to stop.  Your mind is telling you it knows better! Perhaps you can’t imagine yet the experience of clarity that is absolutely available to you…

Thoughts provide the way to this experience.  They are something you have the capacity to ‘separate from’ and observe.

This involves developing our ability to recognise all the ways we react to this material – or stay identified with it where it pulls us in so much that we are lost in it, off in our heads, split from our body.

At first we don’t recognise this identification until we snap out of it, only to be sucked in almost straight away. This is the process for everyone.

Later we can notice ourselves ‘go under’, and this moment is the key. Over time, we begin to stay in this moment, separate from thoughts and watching them. This already denies them some of their power but they usually put up quite a fight first – convincing us of their necessity! Here you develop your focus, refuse to be sucked in anymore and break free. If you stick with it there is lightness and empowerment.

This is the process of meditation; over and over – breaking bonds with past experience, with outdated ideas. The reason it happens ‘over and over’ is that the bonds get deeper, the ideas are more engrained with seemingly no possible alternative – for which you need to develop even stronger focus – and an even more open mind. This then brings deeper experience of yourself as something other than thoughts and emotions.

Begin then, check in to see if your ideas about meditation are outdated and are actually oscillating away to keep you in exactly the same place.

 

 

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