Lifestyle
Meditation The Ultimate Self Care
There are many healing and meditation techniques each with unique benefits. Whatever practice you choose, find one that that allows you to discover your own power to heal and awaken yourself. The answers inside you, any unsatisfactory situation in your life is
I was stumbling through university with a persistent lack of inspiration plaguing my every class when I discovered the art of meditation. A classmate invited me one day after school and eager to escape the drudgery of economics, I obliged.
It was all a little strange at first, I found myself sitting in silence for an hour in a dim lit room alongside a handful other meditators. My mind came alive with thoughts of suspicion, What is the meaning of this? Why do I have to close my eyes? I kept peaking to see what strange magic was happening to the others but zilch. They all just sat there like Buddha Statues. I was bored. The bulk of my prior conditioning had taught me that life was about thought, expression and activity. My ideas of meditation had included images of wizened Chinese masters revealing secrets of levitation and immortality. Observing my breathe for a full hour is not what I had signed up for.
However, by the end of the session I had discovered that my mind was a wild monkey that just wouldnt shut up even for a moment. I hadnt succeeded in ceding all thoughts even for one minute! If I couldnt control my thoughts, then who was? Were my thoughts controlling me? Realizing my powerlessness against my own mind set me squarely on the path to self-realization. Soon after, I attended my first Vipassana retreat - a residential meditation boot camp during which one remains silent and meditates several hours each day for 10 days!