Advantage of living in Present
I had decided to make meditation my habit of the month for the month of February. But I couldn't keep up. Similarly I had tried to keep waking up early as my habit of month January, but struggling with it until now. Feel sad about it, but the good part is I didn't give up. I am still trying everyday. I am keeping my alarm set and everyday try to wake up early. Am sure ,soon I will succeed and one day, I will have this habit hardwired in me.
However, another good thing is I have been keeping up with my meditation practice once at home (in morning- whatever little time I have) and once in office (guided meditation). I read few chapters of the book 8 minute meditation and came to know of different things to focus on.
One thing which I found quite interesting was this- as every thought comes to your mind, classify it as past/future. I thought of trying this method not at the meditation time, but throughout my day. And the thing that amused me most was that 90% of my time either I am dwelling on some past or on Future. And I came across a wonderful time today- while bottle-feeding my son in morning, I realized that a thought that too negative one was running in my mind which I tagged as future and released it. I decided to be in present and I focused on my sleeping son.. he looked so cute and I couldn't stop smiling for about a minute or two looking at him and felt happy. My day started so good and everything went so nicely. I realized how good it is to be in the present moment.
Then after reaching office, I got to receive a very nice thought of day "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. " This is what has been happening to me. I am always burning with anger from inside and it is actually burning me, it has costed me my health, my beauty. And the people against whom I am have that anger are living happily enjoying their life. There is no use of that anger residing within me. It is just doing me harm.
The first step was to realize this. The next step will be to release all the anger. This is probably where meditation is going to help me out. I have to upkeep this habit of mine.
However, another good thing is I have been keeping up with my meditation practice once at home (in morning- whatever little time I have) and once in office (guided meditation). I read few chapters of the book 8 minute meditation and came to know of different things to focus on.
One thing which I found quite interesting was this- as every thought comes to your mind, classify it as past/future. I thought of trying this method not at the meditation time, but throughout my day. And the thing that amused me most was that 90% of my time either I am dwelling on some past or on Future. And I came across a wonderful time today- while bottle-feeding my son in morning, I realized that a thought that too negative one was running in my mind which I tagged as future and released it. I decided to be in present and I focused on my sleeping son.. he looked so cute and I couldn't stop smiling for about a minute or two looking at him and felt happy. My day started so good and everything went so nicely. I realized how good it is to be in the present moment.
Then after reaching office, I got to receive a very nice thought of day "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. " This is what has been happening to me. I am always burning with anger from inside and it is actually burning me, it has costed me my health, my beauty. And the people against whom I am have that anger are living happily enjoying their life. There is no use of that anger residing within me. It is just doing me harm.
The first step was to realize this. The next step will be to release all the anger. This is probably where meditation is going to help me out. I have to upkeep this habit of mine.
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