Power of Meditation

When was the last time you gave yourself some time completely for yourself. Without doing anything. Anything at all? Whatever you do, you are doing something. What is it called when you sit and don’t do anything, giving yourself some time to not even think. Because if you are thinking, you are still doing something. If you are sitting, then you are sitting, if you are laying on the couch, in bed or the floor then, there you have it, you are doing that. And are you thinking while you are doing that? Then there's also doing that.

Meditation is one thing that you could dedicate some time in your day where you sit with yourself and just be with yourself. Completely and utterly. No distractions, no tv, no music, and no thinking. Time to do absolutely nothing at all but just to be with your own presence. Don’t you think you owe it to yourself to do that? To just be there with yourself. To get to know yourself, for once, for finally? Somehow to get to know yourself.. Beyond your physical self. The physical self that has been changing since the day you were born.

Being that your physical self has been changing since the day you were born, and continues to change, means that that is not you. So, when you look at yourself in the mirror, you haven't been looking at yourself. Because you have looked at yourself in the mirror when you were 5 years old, and 15 and 25 and so on and each of those years you looked completely different. So how can your physical appearance be you? 

Your thoughts, that you hold on to so greatly and take yourself be, are also changing. Your thoughts cannot be grasped. For if you try to hold on to one thought, another pops up, and another, and another. Let’s not even talk about trying to stop your thoughts all together! So, when you realize this about your thoughts, and the fleeting and changing nature of your thoughts, we also realize that you are not your thoughts. 

This is where meditation comes in, with meditation, you are able to take some time to discover “who you are”. Beyond “your” thoughts and “your” physical appearance. I put the “your” in quotes because I now beg to ask, what is this “You” that possesses a physical appearance and thoughts that come along with it. And with that, I pose the invitation of setting aside time each day, and I would even suggest more than once a day, but twice, to give yourself some time to just meditate and do absolutely nothing but to be with yourself. Beyond your thoughts, beyond anything that comes to mind and discover who you truly are.