Meditation for Thursday 29th August 2024
From time to time many of us get weary and worried about what the next day might bring. This is when meditation is a great tool to draw us back to what is important, i.e. the peace and tranquility of living in the moment. Meditation is like a ‘gardener’ helping to cultivate the rich and varied garden of mindfulness moments constantly presented to us in our daily lives.
When we cultivate that ‘garden’ of mindfulness we are significantly less likely to react to those emotional buttons, very often caused these days by social media feeds and 24 hour news cycles.
None of us wants our lives governed by negative emotions as they hold us back from being the person that we are really meant to be. It’s so easy to get caught up in the prejudice, intolerance and impatient attitudes that are fashionable in some media and political circles.
Meditation helps us relate to others in a positive and hope-filled way because it gives us an authenticity.
When we bring this level of awareness into our lives we are ‘reaching-out’ by helping others to see that authenticity is what really counts. And authenticity is cultivated in the present moment.
When we see such injustices in the world it can be for us a salient reminder that none of us is perfect….but it is not perfection that leads us to become good meditators but rather perseverance.
Now let’s meditate in the way in which you are most confident.
Meditate
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