Unconditional Reiki · @DustyLuvv
24th Jan 2013 from Twitlonger
#Meditation-tips #Empath-tips #HSP | Part 1 Jack Kornfield's A Path With #Heart Revisited #mindfulness #awareness
"We must gradually discover a wise relationship to the mind, that connects it to the body and heart, and steadies, and calms our inner life. The essence of this connecting is the bringing back of our attention again and again, to the practice we have chosen. In this way, meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say stay, does the puppy listen, it gets up runs away, you sit the puppy back down again, stay, and the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over and pees in the corner or makes some other mess. Our minds are much the same as the puppy, only they create even bigger messes. In training the mind, or the puppy, we have to start over and over again. Remember though, that concentration is never a matter of force or coersion. You simply pick up the puppy again, and return to reconnect, with the here and now. Developing a deep quality of interest in your spiritual practice is one of the keys to the whole art of concentration. Concentration combines full interest with delicacy of attention. This attention should not be confused, with being removed or detached. Awareness does not mean separating ourselves from experience, it means allowing it and sensing it fully, as we learn to steady the quality of our attention, it is accompanied by a deeper and deeper sense of stillness, poised, exquisite, and subtle. The focusing on the attention on the breath, is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. The breath is available to us at any time of day for any circumstance. We when have learned to use it, it becomes a support for awareness throughout our life. But awareness of breathing does not come right away, at first we must sit quietly letting our body be relaxed and alert and simply practice, finding the breath in the body. As we feel each breath, we can sense how it moves within us. Do not try to control the breath, only notice its natural movement. The breath can become a great teacher, because it is always moving and changing. In this simple breathing meditation we can learn about contraction, and resistance, about opening and letting go. Here we can feel what it means to live gracefully, to sense the truth of the river of energy and change that we are. Inevitably, distractions will arise, distractions are the natural movement of mind, each time an enticing image or an interesting memory floats by, it is our habit to react, get entangled or get lost. When painful images or feelings arise, it is our habit to avoid them and unknowingly distract ourselves. We can feel the power of these habits of desire, of distracting ourselves, of fear, and reaction. In many of us these forces are so great, that even after a few unfamiliar moments of calm, our mind rebels. Again and again restlessness, business, plans, unfelt feelings, all interrupt our focus. Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back, again and again, in a quiet and collected way, is at the heart of meditation."
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