THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | December 14 2023 No. 839

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

This week's video could easily have been titled "We All Fall Down!" And we do! And it isn't that this falling down necessarily diminishes with practice. We do all fall down.

 

But that's not a problem - it's simply a fact of life. Sometimes circumstances will conspire to prevent us meditating before our day gets going: early-rising children is but one common predicament for the trying-to-be-dedicated meditator. Early-rising pets can be just as big a challenge! The stuff of everyday life.

 

Sometimes our everyday routine gets skewed - we've to catch a flight at some ungodly hour that feels like the middle of the night because it is. We might have an early meeting. We might be on holidays or we might have visitors. The stuff of everyday life.

 

None of this is a problem. When we fall we can always just pick ourselves up.

 

The problem arises when we start thinking about our perceived failure to meditate - that leads to what are, to me, the old familiar reactions that I hear so often: "Im undisciplined", "Maybe I'm just lazy", "Now I feel guilty". As you know, thinking doesn't just lead to over-thinking. It perpetuates the normal crazy habit of an adult lifetime of thinking bad of ourselves. And you know where that leads...

 

A final little reminder: I mention "routine" above. Meditation needs to be integrated into your routines or you greatly decrease the chance of meditating! But the act of meditation itself should never be routine.