| All my clients meditate - some more than others | | | | to your leg going to sleep, you learn how to not |
| - but all of them, at least some of the time. What | | | | scratch that itchy nose. In other words, you learn |
| kind of people are they - these meditators? Mainly | | | | how to simply let such distractions, frustrations |
| business people - a lot of CEOs, Directors, General | | | | and annoyances pass - as such frustrations, |
| Managers - but a lot of ordinary, everyday people | | | | distractions and annoyances pass in our ordinary |
| too - people just like you and I. Some of them | | | | everyday life. If you learn how to stay focused |
| meditated long before they ever met me - but | | | | whilst meditating so that you don't scratch that |
| most of them admit that, whilst they felt good | | | | itch, you will become untroubled by distractions, |
| whilst meditating, it didn't make a massive | | | | annoyances and frustrations that can otherwise |
| difference to the cut and thrust of their | | | | plague us during our ordinary everyday life. |
| everyday lives. So - two questions: What's the | | | | The discipline of meditation teaches us to observe |
| point of meditating if it makes no difference to | | | | the present moment. We experience the reality |
| your everyday life? And, if it makes no | | | | of the here and now. As a result, we stop looking |
| difference, why do my clients meditate? | | | | for something else, for more. The constant |
| Answering the first question's easy. There's little | | | | struggle of the muddled, dissatisfied normal mind |
| point in meditating if it makes no difference to | | | | stops - we learn to stop searching because the |
| your everyday life. Now, I'm sure that it does | | | | present moment is complete. We begin to realise |
| make some difference for even those who | | | | that life's struggles are only in the mind - fear, |
| thought it made none - so there's always a | | | | worry, doubt, lack of self-esteem are simply no |
| benefit in doing anything that's better than living | | | | more than useless thoughts - but thoughts that, |
| an automatic mindless life like so many people do | | | | nevertheless wreck people's lives and people's |
| (that's not me being judgemental - that's scientific | | | | happiness. Learn how to stop struggling through |
| fact - read the psychological proof!). But | | | | the discipline of meditation and the struggle of |
| meditation, if properly applied, should make an | | | | everyday life will simply stop. Effortlessly. |
| astounding difference to every aspect of your life | | | | Meditation is often misunderstood. It may well lead |
| - every day, if not every moment of every day. | | | | you to an altered state of mind - indeed, that |
| Meditation is the most effective way to achieve | | | | may be the ultimate objective. But, today, the |
| everyday effortless happiness and success. | | | | discipline of meditation will enable you truly live |
| Meditation provides you with a means of taking | | | | today to the very, very best of your ability - |
| control of your own mental capacity, of your own | | | | free from all the normal inner voices that tell us |
| ability to give your undivided attention to the task | | | | we can't do our very, very best. |
| in hand, whatever the task in hand might be. | | | | An investment of five, ten or fifteen minutes |
| Meditation provides you with the means of | | | | each day will mean that the rest of the twenty |
| channelling your energy - physical, mental, spiritual, | | | | four hours will be a completely different |
| it's all just energy - into the present moment | | | | experience to anything the normal mind could |
| where, quantum physics proves, the energy of | | | | imagine. Sure, bad things will happen during the run |
| the universe will respond to that input. | | | | of the day. Sure, distractions and frustrations will |
| Over the next few paragraphs, I describe how | | | | abound. But the difference will be that, unlike the |
| meditation helps you achieve all this. | | | | normal person who reacts to such things and |
| Meditation is a mirror image of the normal routine | | | | makes them worse, you will be able to act with a |
| of the average everyday. The meditator is | | | | clear and present mind. And just like the itchy |
| plagued by distraction, frustration and useless | | | | nose, the distraction or frustration will pass. |
| thought. The body tries to trip you up - whether | | | | But that is only the beginning. Because with a clear |
| it's an itchy nose, back pain, one of your legs | | | | and present mind you will enter flow - a scientific |
| going to sleep. These "obstacles" mirror the | | | | term coined by the University of Chicago. In flow, |
| frustration we all feel when success appears to | | | | you will hit your peak performance. In flow, |
| be elusive, the annoyance of negative people who | | | | universal energy will respond to the simple fact |
| are itching to get you embroiled in their dramas, | | | | that you've invested more of your energy in the |
| the distractions of useless "what-if" worries and | | | | present moment than all the normal people who |
| the debilitation of self-doubt. | | | | half-live their lives in doubt and frustration. You will |
| When you meditate, you learn not to let the | | | | become abnormally happy and successful. All for a |
| thoughts distract you, you learn how not to react | | | | few minutes each morning. |