Meditation

Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." Indeed, most of us go through our life on an automatic pilot, a default mode generated by unconscious processes. We think of ourselves as free to decide what to do in our lives, but in reality we are, for the most part, conditioned to behave, think and feel a certain way. A way that is not our true self. Meditation is a wonderful tool to regain our free will and to liberate ourselves.

What is meditation?

Meditation is a state of awareness, a state of alertness.

It is to give ourselves permission to be human.

Meditation is a focus on the present moment rather than dwelling on the unchangeable past and undetermined future.

It is to be in the flow of life, in the now, to fully enjoy being and to connect with the humanity that we all share.

It is to feel the happiness of being our body or in our body without performing.

You learn about yourself.

You learn how to pay attention to the deep emotions and all the emotions of the moment instead of staying on the surface.

You learn how to pay attention and stay with the sensations in your body. You learn how to be in your body instead of dissociating from it by staying in the mental self.

You are not looking for anything but being in the now.

Being.   

We will focus on being.

Meditate to let BE, a radical risk to just be and not control.

You will learn to take that risk.

Reasons to practice meditation

• To help us to trust the present moment, abandon ourselves in it. It teaches us the truth of the moment.

• To feel free again (versus feeling alienation to the social and economic environment).

• To feel unified, complete: to be HOME again. To avoid or get rid of fragmentation. No need to justify ourselves of anything, we are just home, a normal thing to do. We are at the center of our lives but not the center of the world.

• To learn to say no.

• Meditation is not introspection.

• To find our vulnerability and confusion. To stop hiding. To get rid of our illusions about what we think we are. To put light on the subtleties of our intelligence so we can become responsible for our wellbeing, doing NOTHING, just BECOMING.

• Not to be afraid to become courageous. To no longer flee from what’s uncomfortable and painful. We touch the tenderness in our heart instead of putting barriers of protection around us to not feel. To accept not to be right.

• To help us to create an opening in the present: the goodness of reality.

• To find peace (peace is not comfort, nor tranquility), to remain serene within trouble. I remain free despite the conflicts. I remain free from my fears and defense mechanisms.

• To complement and go faster in psychotherapy.

• To slow down and create space.

• To reach our higher selves.