What Is Meditation

Practicing Meditation can be described as “consciously taking a break from thinking”. The brain’s job is to think, analyze, compute, acquire and weigh up information to ensure survival.

It does this all day long. According to research we have over 65,000 thoughts a day of which only 10% are conscious. Our lives are playing out on auto pilot, the subconscious mind is the driver. It is driving you around using the maps of your past experiences, your social, cultural indoctrinations and the mass marketing engines that have seeded your hard drive to create your world views.

The problem is, most of the data has never been adequately studied, yet we believe the thoughts to be true without examining the validity of our opinions and beliefs.

Think of a child brought up in Nazi Germany, in a military German household perhaps, what might their racial views be? If they were to properly consider these ideas being imprinted in them by their family, how would that change their views?

Meditation and Yoga offer us space to go within, shine the light of awareness on all aspects of our operating systems, both mind and body. To discern properly through the jungle of chaotic downloads, mass societal hypnosis and weed out un-truths.

Meditation and Yoga are both stewards to inner freedom. Teaching us to listen and to learn the language of our bodies and free our minds from the doctrine of social, cultural and marketing filters.

“The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates

 

The root of suffering is not knowing who you are, not knowing your own mind because it’s overgrown with ideas that were planted by others. These unexamined ideas grow stronger over time, fed and re-enforced by those who also experienced the same downloads.

This inheritance is what meditation and yoga address.

With meditation or a “Presence Practice” we discover what it means to be free from the pain of believing the endless parade of thoughts. In time we are able to recognize story thinking and come back to being in The Now (As Ekhart Tolle would say).

Before you start practicing, think about why you want to start, how you think it will benefit your life and acknowledge that at first it will not be easy. (that is true for all)

When you’re ready, find a comfortable seat, set your timer and for that period, intend to keep your awareness on your breath, close your eyes and begin (see video link below).

After some time, you’ll notice that you do not need to sit to practice this level of awareness and being present throughout your day because easier.Your meditation and yoga practice come off the mat and into your life. You become aware of what new data you allow to populate your hard-drive, you get to realize your potential as a unique spirit playing out your life’s purpose, no longer living a robo-sheep’s life. Your thoughts are ‘your’ reality so gaurding them is the greatest life skill you’ll cultivate.

Meditation is a deeply healing practice that restores your birth right – freedom.

Blessings,

Sonia

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