THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | April 24th 2025 No. 909

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

We'll start by quoting a long-standing client of mine who, many years ago, told me that his morning meditation was as integral a part of his morning routine as was brushing his teeth or, indeed, putting on his trousers! He told me that "Meditation is a lifestyle choice" - and so it is.

 

We often - or should I say "normally" - associate the word lifestyle with possessions, things, the trappings of "the style to which we have become accustomed" - or would like to be (read "want" for like!).

 

But "man maketh the clothes" - not the other way around and, obviously, not to exclude women! And the most stylish way in which we can flow through our day is by being present - there's nothing more stylish than presence.

 

But lifestyle, in the context in which my friend and I were discussing it, runs much much deeper, on the one hand and, on the other, is just as I've suggested above - presence is simply presence in the moment.

 

The deeper impact of making the right lifestyle choice each morning - in other words, meditating each morning - is the manner in which the presence that that practice builds transforms and tranfigures our lives and, through our presence, the lives of those around us who are open to being attracted by and to presence.

 

Ultimately, of course, the transformative lifestyle choice of being present is a choice that have to remind ourselves to make throughout the day until, through practice, we flow through our day with the grace, presence and style that comes naturally when we just let it.