Last week I went back to a meditation class. I probably have been back once since I stopped regularly updating this blog. So much going on in the world at the moment I felt like I needed reminding that the thing I have control over is my perspective, Serendipitously that was exactly what the class focused on, beginning with a short breathing meditation and then moving onto a longer meditation. We focused on the idea that it is only our view of something that makes it good or bad. Which makes me want to quote Hamlet: there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so…
I realise that it’s been a ridiculously long time since I updated this, there are two things I would hope that this blog might do:
One is to demonstrate that whatever barriers you might face to meditation they can be removed by using a little creativity and perseverance.
You don’t have to sit in a specific posture to be a meditator and neither do you have to have a perfect meditation session in order to get something out of it. In fact, some people say the more turbulent sessions, that is the ones where you constantly get distracted and have to bring yourself back to the breath are the ones that end up being the most useful.
The second is the reason why am posting again after all this time and that is to try to get into regular practice again: so I will be talking more about what I do each week to make meditation and mindfulness a regular part of my day.
How do you fit meditation into your life? Let me know in the comments
On that note, I’m off to do a short practice.
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