Meditating and Being Present
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Hello out there,
If you know me relatively well you will know that I am a big fan of meditating – you know, sitting there with your eyes closed remaining still breathing deeply and trying to quieten your mind. “Oh yeah, that’s what meditation is” I hear you say!
And for a long time I meditated every day and I felt absolutely fantastic. I was reading up on the best techniques to meditate from Osho and Deepak Chopra, among others, I kepto my routine and it was brilliant. It has after all been once called “The best thing a person can do” and I can agree with that. Before I started meditating I would have very up and down emotions, and I most definitely could not stay present with many things for very long.
After a while (if you can), I feel I got quite good at meditation. Being a competitive person I found myself trying to do longer, and make each meditation session “better” than the last one – sorry for the judgement, I’m just being honest!
I even began to stay present with everyday life. If I am honest I feel that this is really one of the [many] goals of meditating – to be able to stay present with everyday life. Many people nowadays are running around with attention deficit behaviours and I suggest that we can all benefit from meditating.
However, I have noticed recently that I am not staying particularly present and I would honestly put this down to my lack of a regular meditation routine.
What made me notice this was just two days ago, I woke up at my usual time (I am usually the first up) and my newborn baby girl Tabitha Joy was actually awake already. She was lying in her crib, very relaxed and calm so I left her to chill out thinking she would go back to sleep, but when my wife Laurie woke up she was still awake. I began to think how amazing it is that Tabitha being born into this world with a relative ‘blank slate’ to work on, that she has no preconceived ideas about life and is happy to just spend time with herself.
Now, I was always been quite good at this as a boy, but there are still times when I find it hard to spend time alone. This is what meditation has always helped me with in the past.
So, now I am off to meditate and practise what I preach. I started yesterday and will continue to meditate every day!
Wish me luck (and silence of the mind, too)
Let me know any of your meditation experiences, I would love to share stories with people!
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