What is Meditation

So often meditation or mindfulness becomes another box to check for us especially as we now are learning about the benefits of it for our mental and physical health. Of course, meditation can just be a way for you to reduce stress in your life and help you become more present and while there are benefits to that, the true gift of meditation is when we began to use it to come into contact with our deepest Self. Not that we ever lost contact with it, but that we rarely give it any attention in our lives. Meditation is a dedicated time to rest in our essences and to experience the essences of life around us. And more then that, it can help us come into contact with Truth, Love, Wisdom, and Compassion and lets these aspects of our Self flower in us and through us. Meditation is about open up to the moment and discovering the peace, joy, stillness, love, or compassion that already exists right now in each moment. So it is not something we do, but rather, we create space for it in our lives. In our Western world that is all about doing, we often take that doing into meditation which only prevents us actually experiencing meditation. Contrary to what we believe and may have been taught, meditation is the most natural thing in the world and does not require anything special except the interest in it. It may take time to get comfortable with being when you have been feeding the “doing” aspect of yourself, but being is our natural state when not overrun by doing. There is nothing wrong with doing as we were made to engage in Life, but when it is out of balance like it is  in this modern world, we lose contact with what is truly important to us. Instead, consider meditation a time to receive and be in this moment. A time to open up to Life like a flower does towards the sun.