Monday Meditations Part 3: Mindfulness Meditation
May 11, 2009 by dr. lam
Oftentimes when we meditate, we become distracted with our daily concerns. We lose the Power of Now and begin to let our mind drift to the concerns of the day that distract our inner peace. We try to pull our mind back to the fundamental of our breathing but we fail. This exercise allows our mind to travel and to enjoy the travel that our mind takes.
We begin with the fundamental exercise, which is our breathing, enjoying and focusing on the rise and fall of our breath and the natural cadence that our breath takes. From there, as our mind travels, we do not constrain it but let it be. Wherever our mind goes, we allow it to “daydream” and when we arrive at a thought, we don’t judge the thought or deny the thought, we just allow. We label the thought as “thinking” and we allow the thought to exist without force or implication. If our mind goes elsewhere, we allow the thought to blossom. If it is a negative thought, we do not label it as such but we allow it to be just there floating in front of us and around us. We allow the thought to just be withholding fear, anxiety, or judgment. We accept the thought as being part of us, our nature, our being. We then close the exercise with a return to our breathing, focusing again on each in-breath (inhalation) and each out-breath (exhalation) before we return to our world.
The following video is a guided tour to help you stay on a budgeted time of under 10 minutes and to help you stay on track during this exercise for those who can have the luxury of playing the video in their quiet place of meditation. Namaste.
Also, I just started a new Facebook group that is non-profit (don’t worry no donations), non-sectarian (no religious affiliation), non-political and that is dedicated to promoting love and peace to everyone in the world. I would greatly appreciate it if you joined the group and then invited ALL of your friends to join. Let’s start a revolution! Spread the word! Here is the link to the page.
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That is a great facebook group! Sorry that I can’t join….I don’t have a facebook.
(Chose not to get one, because I don’t want to have to worry about keeping it updated.) Too bad.. 
no problem. makes sense. it is a consummate time waster. but if you know anyone that would be interested, i would like to grow this group to a million. yes, you heard me. hey, 130 so far in 2 days is not too bad a start. i’m gaining a member about every 15 minutes or so.
Go for it, Dr. Lam! Okay, a new member every 15 min……approx. 96 new members a day….we’ll round that to 100. At the current rate, it looks like it will take you about 10,000 days to reach your goal of a million. That is if it is not too late for me to do math. Who knows, it may increase exponentially! Golly!
Yes, my heart is brimming with peace and love. I hope others have that too. I hope this movement grows more quickly than that!
Wow, that’s awesome that you are so full of peace and love, Dr. Lam!!! I am sure that your group will grow faster than that, Dr. Lam!!! Quite sure actually!
namaste heather!
sorry, I’m with Heather on that one, but I’m sure you’ll reach your goal even without the two of us:)
no problem.
namaste vancouver!
oh, and one thought I had about your slogan: give rhymes with live, so “live love/give peace” could work too (plus you can even reverse that one to “give love/live peace”).
nice. will keep mine for now.
namaste,
sml