Sometimes I feel that meditation is like being told to sit still as a ambitious toddler.
It is almost impossible!
I have things to explore, touch, throw, grab, lick, and make faces at! Please don’t tell me to sit still.
Out mind wants to continue doing what it always has been doing. Going from every random thought to the next. Not necessarily looking for positive things, but rather negative things, as those seem to stand out much greater.
Why is that?
Why does our mind look for negative things, rather than positive situations?
With no formal education on this topic, I still think it goes back to the beginning of evolution. Cavemen couldn’t sit in their caves and enjoy the tranquility. If they did, they would get eaten by something as they were chilling. They had to constantly be looking for negative forces, and eliminate them. That is how they kept safe!
I think its called survival instinct. Its human genetics.
We need to continue the meditation practice, until we are actually able to shut some of the chaos out. Then during our more active hours of our existence, it will start to feel much less chaotic and easier to make decisions.
Being a mature adult, it is such a different world than I experienced in much younger years. It seems as though I have more time to figure things out, and filter through the important, and the non important much easier. Things haven’t slowed down. I now realize what is important and non important. That is one of the few positive aspects of maturing in my years.
I can’t over emphasize the degree of chaos that we deal with every day. It is just mind boggling. Sounds, sights, smells, temperatures, they all are strong memory anchors that embedded in our core at one time, with experiences.
Why would anyone not want to take a free, stress relieving mini vacation. Why would someone not want to be more relaxed, more responsive as well at peace in their life? Do you think that this would have an impact in our work environment?
This whole topic on the work-life balance appears to be all remedied by simple meditation. It’s not quite that simple. In my next post, I will introduce a couple or more mindsets that will ease the trauma as well.
