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Be Present – Levels Of Presence

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5 Reasons Why Meditation is for Losers

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As with most things in life, we tend to approach meditation with a “how can I get what I need?” mentality, looking to obtain something that we don’t have. For some, that may be a moment of relaxation or mental calmness, for others, achieving inner peace or even a mystic experience.

The philosophy of meditation tells us that we already are and already have everything, and that the only thing we need to do is let go of what may be preventing us from realizing that. Meditation teaches you to shift from a focus on what’s missing to a focus on what’s already there. A slight angle adjustment that changes everything, and moves your perspective from one of lack to one of abundance.

The way we do this is by exercising our attention. We start by developing our ability to bring attention inward and focus it somewhere in the present moment (normally our breathing) without distraction. This cultivates our mental strength.

Then we will use that skill to bring our attention to different aspects of ourselves, like our mind and our emotional state, and silently observe to learn about them and discover what’s useful and true, while letting go of what’s not.

What do you have to lose?

We lose anger and other negative emotions that drain our energy and cloud our vision, blocking access to our natural state of inner peace that reflects as calmness and peace in our life.

We lose the anxiety, stress, discomfort and all forms of fear related to an excess of future-association in our mind.

We lose the guilt, sadness, regrets, complaints, and lack of forgiveness related to an excess of past-association in our mind.

We lose the habit of judging ourselves and others, preventing us from enjoying loving and compassionate relationships, and from experiencing a sense of confidence and connection to others, and happiness in our life.

We lose an idea of self based on identification with the mind, opening the space in which we can realize the essence of who we truly are.

In meditation, the more we lose the better.

Illustration by Adolfo Arranz.

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Let’s Go Practice

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Everything we need to know about how to live a good life has been said and written already; happiness has no secrets; all the wisdom is just a click away. No, we don’t need more words. We get caught up in the mental concepts, and the words remain stranded at that level. We memorize and recite old foreign words; we share impressive quotes; we strive to understand, mentally, but we have no idea what those words mean. Those words’ energy rarely transcends the mental sphere, and yet, the “knowing” comes with the silence and the intimacy of the personal experience. It’s a matter of being the words instead of thinking about them. Move the words from our minds to our hearts and understand them from our own experience. Embody them.

It’s time to bring a motion to those words. Let them arrive home; let’s go practice.

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