Cloud-watching: Primarily current, secondarily pondering
“One of many primary features of mindfulness and meditation is to make your means of partaking with life primarily experiential, and secondarily conceptual”
Pricey Toby,
Why ought to we be thinking about meditating? This weeks article provides some thought to this with the intention of serving to us re-connect to our ‘experiencer’. Should you get pleasure from it then this weeks Tuesday & Wednesday class can be centered on this topic. You’re welcome to affix us, reside or on-line!
Additionally, ultimate shout out for this Saturdays Zen deep-dive mini-retreat!
Within the spirit of experiential cloud-watching,
Toby
Cloud-watching: Primarily current, secondarily pondering
One of many primary features of mindfulness and meditation is to make your means of partaking with life primarily experiential, and secondarily conceptual. What do I imply by this?
Beginning out in childhood we had been all primarily current second oriented. We might spend hours being current as we performed or interacted with others. Principally we had been current to what was there, and sometimes we started to suppose and conceive concepts.
As we had been educated, the system that we had been educated in was and is primarily verbal-linguistic in nature; It’s about creating the facility of our ideas and ideas. By the point we come out of our training, secondary or tertiary, we are likely to see our world primarily via a conceptual lens. Its what we take into consideration life, what we consider about it that begins to dominate and sometimes decide our expertise. We grow to be primarily pondering and conceptual, and secondarily experiential beings. The issue with that is that we then lose contact with our direct expertise, we spend most of our time actually ‘misplaced in thought’ and fewer and fewer time really dwelling and experiencing life. In consequence, our life lacks vitality and vivid-ness, as a result of we expertise it conceptually, second hand, reasonably than experientially, first hand.
Two kinds of goal in life
A technique of discovering goal in life is to mirror upon your values after which arrange objectives that may assist you to attain issues sooner or later which are congruent with these values and that may subsequently make you cheerful.
A second strategy to goal is to know that, no matter your objectives, the primary that means in life from an experiential perspective is to really feel and expertise being alive. Should you lack this, then you definately lack the primary expertise that provides fulfilment, even when now we have significant objectives and tasks.
These two functions are actually complementary, it’s ‘each and’ reasonably than ‘both or’. Nonetheless, with out the second, the primary can be empty. To follow mindfulness of the second serves to make sure that we stay in contact with the expertise of being alive, being fed by life-in-the-moment as we journey towards our objectives.
The proposition can be this: Even when a few of your life objectives usually are not fulfilled, when you reside absolutely and experientially within the second then you’ll really feel that your life has been a full, vivid and fulfilling place, that you haven’t wasted your time pondering of being some other place while it handed you by!
Cloud-watching: Experiencing your ideas reasonably than being misplaced in them
One solution to begin coming again to the second is to study to look at your ideas while grounded within the current, reasonably than being misplaced in them. To do that:
- Sit and floor your self in your physique as you breathe. Really feel as if it is sort of a mountain, strong, steady and immovable within the current second. Anchor your consideration to it, and your expertise of the right here and now
- Now begin to watch your ideas from the steadiness of the current second. In case your thoughts is just like the sky, the ideas are like clouds coming and going. If there are lots of could-thoughts, keep steady and simply watch. If there are fewer with some areas in between, then benefit from the mixture of ideas and areas between the ideas (just like the sky between the clouds)
- Discover the clouds to make you extra current, not take you away from it!
While you watch your ideas and the areas between your ideas, they merely remind you of what’s within the current. You flip them from one thing that takes you away out of your speedy expertise to one thing that helps you connect with it. You grow to be primarily an experiencer of the current, and secondarily a thinker!
Associated articles: Envisioning & presence – Climbing the mindful mountain
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