My Take On Meditation
From my personal experience, like any other good habit --- meditation also takes your commitment if you are perfectionist and wish to do things perfectly. But I am not a perfectionist and I don't aim to be one. I find it fulfilling when things are left a little imperfect. My aim is always to make myself habitual of a good habit first.A Story From My Life
So, when I started meditating, I never fixed a time for it. I did it whenever I needed some peace and quiet. I was at work, and someone was talking very loudly and rudely that I couldn't take so I went to the washroom, closed the lid of pot and sat there. I pinned headphones in my ears to cancel as much noise of ashroom and chattering girls as I could,closed my eyes and started counting my breath followed by affirmations.Buddhist Meditation
But, today I am going to write about another type of meditation (Yoga for Life by Coleen Saidman Yee) that makes you comfortable with our uncomfortable emotions which is freeing. If I knew about this meditation, I could have been able to sit right in my chair and focused on this new aspects of meditation.Here is an excerpt from the book--
Pema Chodron teaches the importance of not running away from difficult emoton, that if we can sit quietly with them, eventually the expanse of blue sky will appear.
The readers find this meditation useful and I am sure we would find it useulf too.
How to do Buddhist Meditation
1. Sit down and notice where you hold fear in your body. 2. Notice where it feels hard, and sit with it. 3. In the middle of hardness is anger; sit with the anger. 4. Go to the center of anger and you'll usually come to sadness. 5. Stay with the sadness until it turns to vulnerability. 6. Keep sitting with what comes up the deeper you dig, the more tender you become. 7. Raw fear can open into the wide expanse of genuineness, compassion, gratitude, and acceptance in the present moment. 8. A tender heart appears naturally when you are able to stay present . 9. From your heart, you can see the true igment of the sky, you can see the vibrant yellow of a sunflower, and true loving colours of everything around. 10. Allow beauty and adness to touch you. This is love not fear.
Before you go-- Let me know if you have practiced this meditation and your feelings afterwards.
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