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Archive for the meditation category
The Power of Meditation - A Reminder
As indicated by the lack of updates, I have been really busy with work the last few weeks. Busy as in working 1-2 jobs every day for the last 12 days. It’s gotten me a bit tired and stressed and lowered my overall outlook on life to be honest. It can be tough to look above the grind when descending too deep within it.
Exacerbating things has been the fact that I’ve been slacking on the meditation as a result. I’ve gotten in the habit of allowing myself to think there simply isn’t enough time in the day. Since meditation can be done in pretty much any interval of time, this is of course a falsehood I’ve been allowing myself to carry on.
Tonight I have a brief window of time between jobs and despite the fact that I was beginning to feel overwhelmed, I decided on the ride home that my top priority for that window of time was to get in some quality meditation time. I managed 30 minutes, and it was the best sitting I’ve had in a while. My mind was pretty busy the whole time, turning over the multitudes of tasks and responsibilities and events that must be prioritized, but I didn’t allow any of them to occupy my attention and allowed them to come without judgment. I let myself see the swirling mass of thoughts as a reflection of the swirling mass of madness and activity that I am engulfed in living in the city of Los Angeles. I accepted the unending shifting and unpredictable nature of my thoughts and the world and focused on myself as an unchanging calm within the swirling eddies and waves. This is the way of things and this is what I am allowing myself to accept and be through meditation.
My calmness has returned and my stress level has decreased. I have nothing to prove and nothing that I must be at this moment but relaxed and accepting of the beautiful change all around me. I need to remember the consistent value that meditation brings and not let false ideas about my ability to use it invade my thoughts and actions. This post is a reminder of this need.