Meditate - as a way to find calm in a hectic world

Meditate

It's your call. So many of my clients seek help from me and from other people because their lives are so out-of-control. By that, I mean that they usually only seek help when they can't sleep or when they want to sleep too much, or they can't eat or they want to eat too much.

You get it.

Extremes. Only in extremes do they become aware of the subtle but devastating effect that the stressors in their lives are having on their biological systems. You see, even though we're all blogging our lives away, and cyberspace has almost replaced the handwritten letter (what a thrill to get one of those!!), we're still the same biological entity we've always been.

We still need sleep, food, water to survive, and not necessarily in that order :-).

When our brains are bombarded with too many visual, audio and other images we all find it increasingly difficult to 'tune out', 'turn off the inner noise'.

When was the last time you did absolutely nothing except count your breaths?

That translates into: when did you last sit quietly, at peace with your self, and just....be. Just let your thoughts drift in, no fighting them, no engaging with them, just letting them drift out again? When was the last time you meditated?

Never? Ages ago? An hour ago?

From my practice and based on the many people I've worked with over the years, I have found meditation to be the single most direct path to lowering the negative effects of too much work, too many children's tears during a normal day, too much television, too many words on the radio.

Find peace. Meditate.