Meditation helps us observe our current experience with a big picture perspective.
The reality of life is that there will always be dissatisfaction and suffering.
The human experience is about being connected with our senses to reality. And reality is not always pleasant, as living beings we are in a constant struggle to thrive and survive. Cells in our body are constantly fighting for their lives, our immune system is sacrificing itself fighting against germs, bacteria, toxins, and the aging process. Our organism within is a micro universe with living cells and organs that are in a permanent battle against disease, aging, and entropy. Our life is not different from this, we have to constantly find the strength to improve our lives, make a better income, find better health, improve and resolve conflicts in our relationships. Of course, life is not the same as 500 years or 10 thousand years ago, where human beings were literary struggling for their lives. Now, science and more organized social structures have allowed us to live more comfortably, but that does not keep us exempt from having feelings o dissatisfaction and suffering. These feelings are part of life and recognizing that this part of the acceptance process that meditation allows us to connect with.
Meditation is not a painkiller, it is a pain acceptance
Our present situation might be complicated, financial burden, physical distress, failure in relationships and professional failure. Things might not have turned out the way we wanted How we perceive our present experience is the fundamental process that grounds us to our real and objective, real life situation. Anything that is not grounded into perceiving our present situation will make us wonder on the future expectations or experiences. So we either live life in fear of the future or regret about our past.
Living life in rejection of our past and fear of our future is not being able to accept the inevitability of our lives. As far as we know the only real thing is our present, past, or future are as crazy as it sounds and illusion. Because it is always now.
It is always now! The past is gone and cannot be changed, and the future is a possibility that still doesn’t exist.
The expectation of the future and the regrets of the past bring us a lot of suffering, anxiety and pain. Being trapped in this suffering is the root cause of depression, addiction, and stress in life.
Meditation is the exercise to reconnect with the here and now, to be conscious that it is always now, and the NOW is the only thing there is. Meditation is key because the mind process will find ways to get distracted from connecting with the present experience and will keep us in a state of distress and worry, and through meditation we reconnect with our present.
Meditation gives us a bigger perspective of our human experience.
By reconnecting with our present experience, we can take life moment by moment. Focusing on our present we can view our future and past into perspective, being able to recognize that these dimensions of time are out of our hands we can be at peace of the way life is.
We can have tragedy in our lives, lose our jobs, lose a loved one, etc. distressing ourselves about the past and the future will not change the situation. Being able to relax and being present will help us into accepting the situation as part of our life that will let us move on and be able to learn and grow from the experience, enriching our lives with meaning and purpose.
When we find meaning we grow and growing in painful
Growth in every aspect of life, being it a physical, emotional or spiritual growth, involves a transformation that most of the time is painful. When you were a teenager, most of you felt the growing pains of adolescence. Imagine going to the gym, gains of muscle or physical endurance occur after arduous training and muscle stress. The same occurs in our emotional and spiritual dimension, we can live life in a plateau but when we decide to grow we must get out of our comfort zone and go through discomfort, hard work and in many cases pain.
Growth is the ability to grasp the meaning of suffering and tragedy in our lives.
Putting our life pain experience into perspective is the key to grasp meaning and enrich our lives with purpose.
Meditation is a practice that helps us put our lives into perspective
Being able to observe live and distance ourselves from the turmoil of suffering and anxiety is what allows us to find a broader meaning in whatever happens in our lives. When someone can see their own life through this lens of this absolute truth, it really changes your perspective. It makes it easier to accept or to surrender to that situation.
The practice of meditation will give us a safe distance and perspective in order to be able to grasp the meaning of the situation, a loss, an accident, a disease, or an incident like losing a job or breaking up with a loved one. Understanding that we naturally are going to experience change in our lives and that this change will be for our natural evolution process will make us realize that everything happens for a reason.
There will always be dissatisfaction and suffering in life
What this really means has nothing to do with what happens in life, but instead it really means that our minds have a tendency to be dissatisfied. To want things to be better and to become upset when things don’t go our way when they don’t meet our expectation.
So in other words it’s creating the experience of suffering is inevitable that will always be challenges in our life that things will always meet our expectations. But we do have a choice and we have a choice whether we are distressed by judging the situations and cause us to suffer or simply accept them and stop suffering.
Meditation helps us bring awareness to this thruth that the mind creates our suffering not the situation itself.
Meditation is a reminder that we have a choice in how we see the situations in life and how react to them.
Change is going to happen.
And with this in mind we can see that losing a job is also gaining an opportunity and that breaking up with a loved one is opening a new window for finding true love in your life. Meditation is being aware of the opportunities that arise in our lives, it is like tuning our abundance antennas to whatever life has to offer.
Oneness
This is the belief that there is no separate self and that we are interconnected. This is absolute borders on the spiritual side, but it can also help be applied in more practical ways from what spiritual perspective all of humanity is connected through a universal mind a universal soul.
- The way we live our life impacts everyone else.
- There’s something more going on in life.
- There is a higher order or higher purpose.
Meditation brings us back to this realization, back to the awareness of the fact that we are connected to others who share the life experience with us.
Meditation is a guide into the higher perspective that trains us into finding the silver linings in life situations. It’s almost like a muscle that you practice and that quickly shifts us into seeing life in a broader perspective and absolute truth. By Anthony Tate on .
Exported from Medium on May 23, 2024.