Q: Why do we Meditate? How Do We Meditate? A: With Purpose, and Any Way We Like–Just do it!
Meditation is just a fancy word for practicing your focus skills to create more moments of presence when we aren’t lost in thought, thinking about nonsense, or worse, ruminating the past of anxiously worrying about the future. Peace of mind is what we all want right? More moments of presence equate to more micro-moments to focus on building love in your relationships and more micro-moments to serve the world through the worky you deem worthy. It doesn’t matter how you meditate, the import thing is that you do it every day. Some like the Dalai Lama spend 4 hours each morning practicing being present, while others only spend a single breath when they wake up to relax and prime themselves for the day. Both are great–do what works for you! Think of it as training your focus the same way you exercise to train your muscles to put yourself in a position to succeed on and off the field and create a general sense of well being. Some tips to get started that are easy to remember are the 5 “D”s of meditation: 1) Do it Daily, 2) sit with dignity (sit tall like you’re sitting on a throne!) 3) Define an anchor to come back to, this could be your breath, a mantra, a prayer, etc.) 4) Do it with strong determination (ignore the itch on your nose or the hum of that annoying fly) 5Do it again, every day (It gets easier and you will feel the benefits more and more). Meditation is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Adderall. For the price of as little as one mindful breath a day you will get more happiness and more control over your attention.
