LOSE YOUR MIND

The biggest opposition to meditation I hear most is::

"I can't sit completely still and silent, and erase my thoughts!"

I suggest that you not try to totally erase your thoughts, but

instead learn how to keep them from racing.

Instead, learn to direct your thoughts toward your deepest 

heartfelt dreams,

intentions, and prayers for your life experience

{and for the world!}.

The day I first TRIED to ERASE MY THOUGHTS {uughh!}

There was a long time in my life when I couldn't even tolerate silence. 

I needed noise from sOMeWHeRE, sOMETHING.  The tv or the radio was on at all times, including overnight.  I called it entertainment, comfort, and company.  

The first time I sat for an extended meditation (30 minutes which I found to be way too long for beginners), I wrestled mad-ZZZZs!

During the first 5 minutes, I listened to my breath, like instructed.  But shortly after, my mind started playing thoughts!  I danced in a disco of thoughts, spinning round in my frickn head, non-stop.  I thought about cleaning my apartment, organized my schedule for work, planned a jaunt for the weekend, imagined what I'd get for lunch, then my apartment popped back up, lunch again, my workout and whether I'd train back or legs (ah, a new thought), then my work schedule...  

Thought after thought flashed, each one blending into the next.  Just ' a dancin' they came, till I got sleepy.  Because  we sat in pin-drop silence, besides the intermittent sounds of shifting and exhales from my fellow meditaters, I fought the urge to succumb to the ZZZZs. 

Frustrated and sleepy, I couldn't do much to relieve myself of the replay in my mind, though I, sho-nuf, tried!  I changed position, wiggled my toes, scratched (the many parts of myself that were suddenly itchy!),  and squinted to see if anyone else was as uncomfortable and I.

(I found out later that they were!!)

My teacher brought us back to our breath, something they did to indicate the close of the meditation.  

HOLLA!  Done!

Okay.  I tried meditation, I thought.  Unfortunately, it didn't groove me.


what did i learn?

1--I learned that I needed to distract myself from being "in my head". There was too much chatter going on up there, and constantly repeating itself!  Same thoughts over and over again - some of them planning my future, some replaying my past, and many of them questioning my life, wondering, hoping.  I had a "monkey mind", as the Buddists call the busy, and uncontrolled nature of the mind!

2--I learned that meditation made me sleepy!

3 --I learned that though I truly wanted to learn meditation, I wasn't ready for such a full-throttle approach.  30 minutes was simply too long for me to do something I really didn't understand.  I was more agitated than relaxed.  Ineeded a gentler method that I could ease into and grow to liking a regular meditation practice.  

4--I learned that I'm not alone with my feelings about #1, #2, and #3!

SO, here's what i have done for you...! join me for 10 days to LOSE YOUR MIND!!

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