What Is Meditation?
Emotional well-being
We’ll soon be entering the middle of winter and many people experience seasonal attitudinal depression during this time I have found with my coaching clients that regular meditation can help alleviate many of the symptoms of winter depression
We just completed a small meditation retreat and I was surprised at the number of people who weren’t sure of what meditation actually was. Here are a few short thoughts on the subject.
Meditation is a generic term for a mental discipline that involves self-regulation and focusing attention on one specific point of reference or discarding any point of reference.
As we go through life we are drawn to external objects using the senses. Over time we may lose touch with who we are, replacing our self-awareness with a fascination and attachment to the external. This is okay if there is a balance between inner knowledge and external awareness. All too often however the mind loses itself and begins to identify the external object as reality. Meditation prevents this from taking place and cultivates our awareness of who we really are and what reality is.
