| Do you feel overhwelmed and at odds with your | | | | thought.' If you try to use meditation to stop |
| life? Does it seem like your mind rambles | | | | thinking, you are in for a rude surprise. You simply |
| incessantly, as if you can never experience a | | | | cannot do it. In fact, the harder you try to stop |
| moment of peace? Many people in our modern | | | | thinking, the louder and more obnoxious your |
| world describe their lives as frenzied and | | | | thoughts become. This is not the way. The main |
| imbalanced. The good news is that it doesn't have | | | | intention of mindfulness is to be fundamentally OK |
| to be this way. Many Asian cultures have | | | | with whatever arises as you practice. Whether |
| understood something for the past several | | | | you have a good thought or a bad thought, you |
| thousand years that modern people are gradually | | | | give it the same attention. You remain neutral. By |
| beginning to discover: That we have to learn how | | | | doing this, you stop feeding the energy of your |
| to work with our minds in a conscious and healthy | | | | thoughts. This is the first step in cutting through |
| way if we are to attract peace, abundance, and | | | | the vicious cycle of thought-feeling-reaction that |
| joy into our lives. Without a consistent method of | | | | keeps so many of us habitually attracting the |
| cultivating awareness, we will be forever resigned | | | | wrong kinds of energy, people, and circumstances |
| to circumstances that feel out of our control. | | | | into our lives. If we believe what we think, the |
| That is why so many modern people are | | | | energy of the thought will evolve into a feeling. |
| struggling. We have lost the ancient practice of | | | | The momentum of the feeling will cause us to |
| connecting our inner world of thoughts, feelings, | | | | react to it, which will create a cause in the world |
| and energy with our outer world of the | | | | that will always lead to an effect. The effect will |
| circumstances we attract into our lives. Because | | | | always be a reflection of that initial thought |
| of this, everything that appears seems to be | | | | impulse. So, if your thoughts are habitually |
| random. We lose trust in the unfolding of the | | | | centered around negativity, greed, fear, or |
| universe. As a result, our minds are filled with | | | | narcissism, then the effects you will see in your |
| anxiety and worry, which only attracts more | | | | life will mirror this back to you. |
| seeming chaos and confusion into our lives. Does | | | | Mindfulness is a process of becoming truly |
| this sound familiar? | | | | proactive for the first time in your life. Most of |
| The law of attraction states that what you focus | | | | the time, we are just reacting to what we think |
| on expands. If your thoughts and feelings | | | | and feel, which brings us endless cycles of conflict |
| resonate with anxiety and confusion, then you will | | | | and disappointment. When we remain neutral to |
| attract more of those qualites to you through | | | | our thoughts and feelings, then we will gradually |
| your relationships, work, finances, etc. The key is | | | | make contact with an aspect of ourselves that is |
| not to trick our minds into creating positive | | | | spontaneous and awake. We will act (not react) |
| thoughts through affirmations or other methods, | | | | from this place. We will attract what we truly |
| but to develop space around the workings of our | | | | desire into our lives based on a conscious process |
| minds altogether. Herein lies the magic of | | | | of heightening our senses. And, yes, at some |
| mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness is a method of | | | | point the mind does slow down. We experience |
| becoming acutely aware of everything that | | | | wonderful and refreshing moments of peace and |
| happens within the scope of our perception. We | | | | openness. The universe is naturally seen as a |
| shed light on what we think, feel, and sense. We | | | | benevolent place. |
| make conscious all of the subconscious material | | | | Instead of our typical attempts to outsmart the |
| that typically sabotages our good intentions. We | | | | universe, mindfulness is a humbling process of |
| don't try to change it. Instead, we just become | | | | surrender and gratitude. |
| extremely aware of it. We do this by sitting still | | | | Cultivate space, endless space, around your |
| and doing nothing but watching how our mind | | | | thoughts and feelings. Allow your spirit to inhabit |
| works without attachment or judgment. We just | | | | your body fully. Don't buy into self-defeating |
| sit and witness what takes place within us and we | | | | storylines and beliefs. Don't try to force yourself |
| start to draw parallels between what we believe | | | | to see the positive in life or repeat useless |
| to be true and what we are constantly attracting | | | | affirmations that you have no innate connection |
| into our lives. | | | | with. Instead, taste the perfection of this moment |
| Many people, particulalry Westerners, try | | | | as it is. If you can feel in your bones that you are |
| meditation for a period of time and then give up | | | | fundamentally OK and that life is precious, you will |
| after getting frustrated with the process. This is | | | | attract much more meaningful relationships with |
| because we are always looking for results. We | | | | people, better health, more fulfilling work and |
| are deeply attached to our expectations of what | | | | more prosperity on all levels of being. That is the |
| should happen. Most of us try to use meditation | | | | power of mindfulness. |
| to shut our minds down, to dwell in a space of 'no | | | | |