Psychic Recharge
I have been working on meditation for a few years now. I found it dreadfully hard and boring at the start. Now THere are times when I am sitting and I naturally become quiet. Far from being boring, it is like I am recharging. This feeling of 'thoughtless excitement' is what many people experience when they start to reap the benefits of meditation, as I wrote about in 'Meditation Benefits: 8 Life-Changing Results from My Daily Practice'.
I am not a pro so I have no authrity here but my experience with many ‘help you to meditate’ services and recordings don’t really help you. There is no easy way, and listening to someone talk encourages you pay attention to words.
For me, meditation is about learning to control your attention, and being able to steer it away from words, the constant chatter in our minds. This relates to the ideas I explored in depth in [Thinking is Overrated].
I(ve been working on my ability to refocus my attention on things other than my thoughts, and it has been great so far. It is easy now to sit silently and actually quite far from boring. This relates to the idea that our thoughts can often mask deeper sources of joy. As I discussed in [No-face Thinking], we've become accustomed to associating mental activity with excitement, but this can actually be a hindrance to true fulfillment. As I wrote about in [Meditation Benefits: 8 Life-Changing Results from My Daily Practice], there are many ways to experience fulfillment beyond our minds' chatter. There are other sources of joy and excitement once we open ourselves to them.
And this silence is like plugging yourself into the cosmos… it recharges you, provides inspiration and energy.
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