"Quiet the mind and the soul will speak" - Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Meditation. It sounds like such an indulgent thing to do, a luxury of ones use of time, there is something quite worldly and wise about it. If you search for a book to help you learn about how to meditate, you have to go to the new age section. It does make me laugh; the earliest known written records of meditation are from India around 1500 BC, hardly what I would refer to as new. But in today’s society it either falls into two buckets. New Age – Which the Urban Dictionary refers to as 60’s hippies now adults without drugs or cause to support. Or Wellness – They biggest trend of the millennia. It is the era of proving to the world that you have ticked every box, your successful, rich, the perfect mother, crave nothing but green beans and chia seeds, hate the taste of anything that includes sugar and of course the ultimate. Being happy, you can have it all! If you google Wellness it brings up “trillion dollar industry” or “Wellness Tourism” not quite what I had in mind. However as you begin to read about meditation you begin to see that it has been an humble part of everyday life for a variety of indigenous cultures all over the globe. Meditation, to many cultures, is not hyped, new age or trendy it is as routine as brushing your teeth when you wake up in the morning. To get me started and make sure I’m not just lying down and taking a nap for 10 minutes a day I tried a variety of App’s (I will make sure to include Steve Jobs to my gratitude journal). I am currently using Headspace, DigiPill and Smiling Mind. Depending on how I am feeling I may pick Smiling Mind if I just need a bite-sized 2 minutes, or perhaps some hypnotic music to really clear our those thoughts from Digipill. For the majority so far Headspace has been the closest to what I think meditation for feel like for me. I do feel slightly more relaxed and had a very productive day yesterday working from home, something I do struggle to stay on track with. I am a habitual procrastinator, believing my greatest strengths always appear the minute before any deadline, one of the many things I would like to change about myself and hope to address as part of my quest for spiritual enlightenment. Comments are closed.
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