What is Meditation

Meditation: Returning to What’s Already Here

So often, meditation or mindfulness becomes just another box to check—especially as we continue learning about its mental and physical health benefits. Of course, meditation can reduce stress and help us feel more present. And while there’s value in that, the deeper gift of meditation is found when we begin using it to come into contact with our deepest Self.

Not that we ever truly lost contact—but we rarely give it our attention.

Meditation invites us into direct relationship with the essence of who we are, and with the living presence of life around us. It is a time to rest in stillness, not as an escape, but as a return. A return to Truth, Love, Wisdom, and Compassion—qualities that begin to flower within us the more we make space for them.

Meditation is not something we “do.” It is something we open to. A way of meeting this moment fully and discovering the joy, stillness, love, or clarity that already exists, right here, right now.

In our Western world, shaped so heavily by doing, we often bring that same striving into meditation. We try to “achieve” presence, which only creates more distance from it. But meditation, contrary to how we may have been taught, is the most natural thing in the world. It doesn’t require a special skill—only the interest in being present.

At first, being may feel unfamiliar—especially if you’ve been living from the energy of doing for a long time. But being is your natural state. There’s nothing wrong with doing—we were made to engage with life—but when doing overtakes being, we lose touch with our connection to Life.

Instead of approaching meditation as another task, consider it a time to receive. A space to open to life, the way a flower naturally turns toward the sun.