You probably heard of it, tried it a few times, but never quite gave it a real chance, thinking you’d better use that time for achieving your goals or just taking a nap. The latest self-(all of those positive words)-scheme, you can find tonnes of articles about. Meditation. Quite clear benefits proven scientifically: emotional health, attention boost, stress reducer, better sleep and so on. But my life is going fine, I am productive so I saw no point in meditating. Until I did. But it took an exhausting situation to realize its power, a situation which you can avoid. It’s quite simple:
There are things you can’t fully understand, feelings you can’t fully control but you know they affect you, you know you need to change them(If you don’t, you might be Gandhi or might be stuck in your comfort zone), or at least you have some ambitious goals and dreams you want to achieve but don’t quite know how yet. Whatever reason, everything from ideas to actions, starts with thoughts. We live in our own heads and thoughts are what we call reality. A change has to take place in our heads before outside them. And who manages to control this reality in his own head, shapes also the reality around him. This is meditation: making order into the chaos of desires, emotions, fears, dreams and information in your head. Knowing what you want and what you need to do for achieving it. Meditation is what allows us to edit our mindset, focus on what matters and on what we want to become. For instance:
You have sleeping problems when you have a stressful event ahead. This affects your performance and consumes you. Before trying pills, that would potentially get you addicted and you’ll have to cope with the side effects, try solving it freestyle: take daily a few minutes in which you think about the problem: find its roots and cut them with the power of your imagination. Picture your success at doing it, convince yourself of it. Find a soothing backfire. Anything, and then, after finding the solution, offer it time to travel through your brain, to get familiar with it, by meditating. Your brain will eventually grasp it, you are finally playing in the same team.
Furthermore, we consume so much time and energy with fear-based thoughts that prevent us from taking action… We fight too much in our heads, instead of fighting for our dreams. Why not cut the useless, bad thoughts directly from the source? Why not train our unconscious brain to filter these thoughts before even having them? We would be much closer to those few people that grab the chance and make the best out of it because they don’t waste time and energy thinking against themselves. It’s about using your imagination in a constructive way, towards the bright side. In the end, our brain is what makes us so crazy, so why not offer him a walk sometimes?
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