Meditation

Meditation is observing yourself and your surroundings without judging or taking action. Meditation is coming home to your self. To meditate one has to stop all activity, including thought. You become centered  and totally relaxed where you experience complete silence. You only witness as an observer, your breath can be fast or slow, deep or shallow, regular or irregular; everything is okay.

By bringing your awareness to your breathing and observing this without judgment, you become deeply connected to your inner self. Similarly with your mind, accept your thoughts as they come and go without interacting with them, and you will find that they fade more and more into the background.  Then there will be silence.

Once practiced in meditation, you can connect deeply to your inner self even while shopping, talking on the phone, being in a meeting, preparing dinner, or during any of your daily activities. This is known as 'Active Meditation' as opposed to 'Passive Meditation' - also known as 'Sitting Meditation' -  which is to be still and silent, observing your breath. In other words, meditation does not mean you have to withdraw from life.

Normally when we meet people, it is our egos that meet. We want to show people how smart, interesting, helpful, spiritual, beautiful, or talented we are. We make ourselves very important; we want to be better than the other.  It is even sometimes a matter of life and death. Meditation is life!

Imagine how it would be if we met each other from deep within ourselves, our essences, rather than just from our minds. If you imagine that we are a circle, then the centre point is in silence and the circumference is our daily activities, so both can simultaneously be present.

Why is this so difficult for us? We identify ourselves with our minds and, due to our experiences in our infancy and childhood, we create survival mechanisms and maintain them through our belief systems.  This false security, control and fragmentation of our nature make us unhappy and ultimately ill.

Society has changed and demands perfectionism. We need to be everywhere at the same time and be accessible 24 hours a day. In other words we are not connected to our centre. If we are not rooted in our centre, our thoughts and energy are scattered. This creates chaos. We want everything under control, which is not only exhausting but also impossible.

The purpose of meditation and coming home to your self is to listen to your own inner voice and to feel your own strength hence enabling your self healing abilities. You become empowered.

"This connects you
to your talents
and passion"