Making Meditation Practical
Everyone wants to meditate, but trying to make time and get motivated to do it a struggle we all have. Some easy ways to practice meditation throughout the day is to practice being present in the here and now. This form of meditation is called mindfulness or paying attention during your activities.
One of the big benefits to mindfulness meditation is staying focused. Clear focus helps you to understand where you are going and how you will get there. This kind of meditation is being in the moment, exercising a set of mental activities that sees things with impartial watchfulness. It does not take sides. A mindful meditator is both participant and observer. It is observing all phenomena - physical, mental or emotional - whatever is presently taking place in the mind. Ever eat an orange and really savor the process from peeling through tasting it? Let’s see how mindfulness works.
Behold (without judgment) the beauty of the orange as you hold it up to the light and witness the color, moving it to your nose to breathe in the sent of the rind itself. Perfect roundness rolls over your fingertips as the sphere moves from your left to your right hand. Feel the dibbled texture as it slides over your fingertips. All of your senses are alive as you hear the peel pull away from the skin. A cool spray of juice prickles your skin as the sent of the orange creates an aroma that makes your mouth water. Pull the segments apart and bite into it letting the juice run into your mouth. Savor the sweet liquid as it becomes a part of your awareness. This is mindfully eating an orange with full awareness of its presence in your life.
The process of mindfulness is simply short bursts of attention to one thing. We do this normally in our everyday life. As you begin to assimilate the process, and become more proficient the attention moves to all things.
Mindfulness allows you to envision your life and make it easier to get what you want from life, with family and work. Visioning makes life simpler and clearer not more complicated. Get yourself and others onboard by painting a picture of the results that create the greatest success in your life. We must see and agree on the same picture, a picture of what we want to happen. When we visualize we put our intention on what we want to work on. A more specifically crafted intention will produce greater results.
Remember whatever you believe is what your body and mind will do. That is why sports psychologists use visioning to make athletes stronger and more directed. So like any work you do with goal setting, when you are thinking of your intention make sure it is clear, specific, and achievable, then trust that it is being accomplished. As we focus on being fully present there is a centering power within the mind that we can tap to improve our state of living, working or create the perfect mindset to see the results we want, and then get it. In this way, we get more of what we want and keep more of what we have, living a life of pure abundance, peace and beauty.
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