Meditation

Why meditate? To quiet the chatter of the mind to be able to hear your inner voice. To re-establish the link between the body and the mind. Or to make it less serious, why not just calling it stopping any new input from entering the mind and socialise with your breathing for a while. Just sit.

It’s a natural part in our yoga practice and yesterday we spent almost an hour trying out different meditation techniques. The challenge I find is how to integrate some of these most fundamental principles IRL. Why have we stopped doing something that should be so easy? To just be, do nothing, think nothing. The constant flow of information, the constant lack of time and the never-ending search for more happiness (be it a new car, a higher salary or love) somehow got in the way.

Somewhere along the line we lost the ability to just be with ourselves and breathe. Or have we never had that ability? As the concept of meditation has figured in all the old texts from thousands of years back, it may be that the biggest challenge for human beings is exactly this. May be sending a man to the moon is a piece of cake compared to quietening the mind.