Meditation?!

Hello! Woha! What a summer! I feel as though I have spent most of it getting ready to go back to China...as most of you already know, and experience, the summer has flown by. I will not bore you with details of my adventures, because I think they are really only interesting to me. I have been fortunate to visit with almost everyone I wanted to see this summer, which has kept me insanely busy. I will be doing it differently next summer, if you want to see me I'll be at a cabin on the lake, not moving for two months! (place tbd!).

My journey this summer has been one filled with reflection, (and a bit of drinking...). I signed up for Oprah and Deepak's meditative journey! 21 days to Miraculous Relationships! I thought,  FOR SURE, I can do this, 15 minutes a day! Finally, meditation has found its way to me! I don't care what anyone says, Oprah is awesome, and Deepak - well he is love. But no matter how awesome Oprah is, she cannot make my mind stop moving.

The journey to finding your inner spirit, the love that lies within you, and emanating that love to the world is not an easy journey (for me). Actually I think it is one of the hardest journeys I have been on. Fifteen minutes a day is just the meditation part, a long with that comes the journal entries which get you thinking about you, and then on top of that, there are daily exercises to try and remember to practice. All of this to help remember and find that loveable, kind, generous spirit who was filled with light that has been inside you from birth. Learning to accept that person, giving them a voice, and seeing that same light in everyone you meet.

This is the kind of person I have been talking about, you know who they are, the ones you meet and they just emanate awesomeness. You want to be around them all of the time because they are just pure love. That is who I am inside. That is who you are inside! That is what I am learning, that we are all pure love. That we are made up of this energy and we just have to realize it.

One of the best exercises I have had to do so far was looking at everyone as though they are a stranger. This is fantastic. To look at your family members, your children, your friends and your co-workers as though you do not know them. You start to see people from a different perspective. You see them how others might see them, without preconceived notions of who you THINK they are. You start to see people for who they really are. You see their inner light. Try it, really!

So, I was embarrassed to tell anyone about all of this introspection and love and spirit talk, meditation, journaling, until I worked up the courage to mention what I was doing to a few of my friends. I could not believe the conversations that came from this. Hello Miraculous Relationships!! I had no idea how many of my friends are very spiritual people, and they pray! They pray every day! I'm not exactly sure what I believe in yet, but I do believe in some spirit, one that connects us all. We are all connected in some way. Something bigger than me and you, and although I am really taking a long time go get this meditation thing on the go, something is working since I have been meditating. Something is bringing awesome relationships into my life because since starting this journey, I have seen the change in me, in my conversations, and in my relationships with friends and family.

I wish I could say this was an easy process for me, that I started meditating and have silenced my mind on the first try. Actually I'm not sure I have silenced my mind in the first 10 days of meditating until today when I sat by the water and stared into the distance, just listening to the waves. I had to start somewhere, we have to start somewhere. There needs to be a collective change in attitude in our world, and that somewhere starts with our children. If we instil and encourage this inner knowing and love in our children, this process will be easy, and we won't have to work so hard as adults to find our spirit! We are born with an innate knowing, we are born innocent, and are in tune with nature, peoples emotions, with our spirit, and our light. We need to encourage our children to understand these emotions and emanate the love that is within them, let them shine!

So for now, I am still trying to meditate, taking in Oprah and Deepak's words of encouragement and wisdom, trying to remember treat myself with kindness and love and acceptance. To view others with the same love, and light that we should be shining on ourselves. Once we accept who we truly are at the deepest level, we can then begin to shine our light on others, and in turn allow their light to shine as well.

In three days I am back to Jinhua, and I hope that I can keep growing, and learning, and experiencing life first hand. Thank-you to every single one of my friends who I was able to visit with this summer. I appreciate you and everything you do. See you next year!! xoxo


If you want to get in on meditation...here is the website.

https://chopracentermeditation.com/home