How to enjoy meditation

How to ENJOY meditation


Let’s be truthful: meditation can be a struggle. I find it hard to sit still and think of nothing. And I guess it doesn’t come quickly to you either.

Here’s an honest disclosure from someone who should meditate a lot. For a very long time, I dreaded doing my practice. As a spiritual healer, I needed it to ensure I remained grounded, clear, and open to the Spirit realm and my inner intuition.

I always felt a sense of obligation intertwined with guilt, saying, ‘I know this is good for me, but I just don’t like doing it!’

Focusing on my breath didn’t work to empty my mind, and it just created enough spaces of stillness to let me plan my shopping list and figure out what to make for dinner that night. 😉

The game-changer came when I discovered guided meditation with the use of visualisation.

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Why? Because this gives your mind something to do!

And I am a big believer that if you starve ANYTHING, including your mind, it will hunger to be fed. This means trying to clear your mind and not think is the *worst* thing you could do to create stillness.

Yet, if you give your mind something to do, it’s less likely to want to interrupt you as you aim to achieve stillness. Feed your mind with a point of focus, and you will be well on your way to creating a stronger foundation of inner and outer awareness.

Secondly, having your little adventure within the creative space of visually guided meditation allows imaginative processing and ultimately activates all sorts of happy, sparkly dopamine (which is one of our objectives, isn’t it, to create greater happiness and peace in our lives?).

The beauty of guided visualisation within meditation is that it allows you to imagine yourself on a treasure hunt, and the gold is found within you.

This is one of the most satisfying and delightful outcomes .. you genuinely discover that all the insight and answers lie within you.

Your soul has an excellent way of imparting wisdom through symbols and images; you can access this very wisdom through this pathway of visualisation.

So, for example, while guided to sit down alongside a river and watch the water flow downstream, in your mind’s eye, who will sit down beside you? What thoughts in your mind will rise to the surface and allow you to release them down the river? These details of what appears will be unique to YOU. This means that only your subconscious will give you details that relate to you and your life at that moment.

On another guided journey, you may stroll through a lush green forest. There, you will discover your sacred temple. What will it be? A marble dome? Grapevines dripping over an open canopy? Who is inside, and what do they have to offer or show you?

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Allowing your mind to play allows it to enjoy its own company, think differently, and think more effortlessly. We find new ways to let go of resistance and become empowered in the experience of being able to self-soothe.

High-level meditation, which I call Premium Meditation, can involve clearing the mind, but this happens after years of focused practice. And I don’t know about you, but most of us don’t have the time or discipline to devote hours a day to such intense practice, right?

So, having a ‘temple’ or ‘waterfall’ that you visit in your mind’s eye means that it is easy to drop in and go to that space more regularly. This becomes a new place of peace within as you fall asleep when you first wake in the morning or while you gaze out the window and sip a cup of tea.

An image or place like this creates an ANCHOR for you to return to, embodying a sense of beauty, familiarity and peacefulness.

Trust me, it is possible to rewire your brain in an enjoyable and relatively easy way. And it doesn’t involve asking it to stop doing what it was created to do: think.

Now, here’s the cool thing: when you regularly give yourself a portion of your time to tap into this creative wellspring within you through guided meditation, a lot of drama dissolves from your life.

In all honesty, we often create or attract drama in our lives because some of us crave stimulation or recognition. So what if we could feed that part of ourselves, too?

The stimulation we lack is often due to our lack of creative aptitude. You can see it in the kids today, and they are so over-stimulated mentally and undernourished creatively by digital devices that a lot of their creative juice has been sucked out of them. The result is that they feel bored, listless, and irritable. And this goes for grown-ups, too, mind you.

Think about how much time you spend online scrolling and how your sense of deep, rich life fulfilment feels like the furthest thing from your life. But if you give yourself the creative stimulation of going on your internal adventure in your mind while calming your nervous system – you’d be feeling pretty darn good, right?

We all seek a level of recognition and appreciation.

And rightly so. We humans crave love and attention. This is, after all, one of our core needs.

However, we do not feed this internally. In that case, it will manifest externally in not-so-pleasant ways, such as arguments, manipulation, general discord, and disconnection from those around us.

Would giving yourself the time to meditate as a genuine act of self-care and re-filling your love tank from within make a difference in your life? And that there would be less drama and more flow?

If you answered yes, you are correct.

How to ENJOY meditation
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