Monday Meditations Part 3: Mindfulness Meditation
May 11, 2009 by dr. lam · 10 Comments
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.
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