Meditation
Do I still have you?
Have you run away after reading ‘meditation’?
I am not great at meditation, a formal sit if you like. I like mine to feel alive and creative.
After being immersed in teaching/loving yoga for over a decade, I have been to many kinds of meditation trainings. I feel pretty grateful to have been able to try them on and experiment with what suits me best.
I’ve received a secret mantra during a personal (& very expensive) ritual.
I’ve travelled thousands of kilometres to sit with super star Yoga teachers & meditate.
I’ve meditated in India at Sunrise.
And I’ve learned from the most lovely couple, that taught me the only way that stuck. Not surprisingly I’d group this couple with the Sufi’s way which is to be literally drunk on love with heart exploding with devotion, full surrender kind of feeling. A feeling of being immersed in life, not riding above the human experience and quashing all desires but by being fully in it and using my life as my meditation.
And for me this looks like making my altar look so beautiful and appealing that I want to sit near it, it fills me with joy as I walk past it. And these feelings of love and devotion that you feed when you assemble and tend to your altar, they also feed you. Its reciprocal. You give and you also receive. Too sweet!
During meditation, you sit and give your attention to yourself and by doing this small act, you also receive. By offering youself your time, you open up a door to the divine, to the universe, to God, whatever name you give to the magic that somehow organises this human experience, to step through.
There’s beauty in living when we give ourselves time to sit and befriend ourself. To treat yourself as you would your best friend.
Create:
Make tea
Light a candle or some incense
Play some lovely calming music.
Start by writing or journalling if you like, I find that really helps clean out my mental clutter. Currently I’m meditating on a poem, I’ve meditated on Sanskrit Verses, on writings by modern and ancient poets, on the work of Robert Frost and the list goes on.
Start with what you love. Sit with it. Set a timer for 5 minutes and just be with yourself. Let your own medtiation grow and evolve. This is a way to become your own best friend. How beautiful is that.
xx
