Meditation, entering through the Heart, is less about doing and more about Being. It takes you into a receptive state, not to receive more data, more information, more ideas, more judgements, more ideals, but to a place where you can see beyond the spaghetti junction of the constant bombardment of external stimulus, to a place where you can receive and be led by the Wisdom of your own Heart.
Here you know what is actually correct for you. Here you are less likely to be hypnotised and subliminally programmed by the outside, whether that be your family, advertising or social pressure from peers, because you are grounded fully in the Presence of your BEing.
The Silent Revolution is to claim BEing Human. To be willing to remember how to be a compassionate Human BEing, not just a Human DOing. That doesn’t mean you will never do anything, but it does mean that your doing will be immensely more powerful because you will be doing from a place of integrity, reconnected to your Authentic Self, to your faculties of awareness, that unscrupulous people are making huge amounts of dosh from, by hijacking your attention and persuading you that for you to be a good or successful person, you must “do”, “have”, “behave” a certain way.
Meditation (on Silence – which doesn’t mean having to be in a Silent space or having to try and stop your thoughts) is an act of heresy against the false God of information overload. You might like to check out my poem Consumer God.
Meditation can help you see more clearly. It may help you see that much of your life has been hijacked. Your mind may then try to persuade you that it has been wasted (the latter never true, I should add!) and you may not want to face these feelings. You may not want to accept you’ve made mistakes. It may not always be comfortable.
And yet if you truly want to be a fully aware Human BEing, you are going to have to find a way to listen to your own SOUL, the Source Of Unlimited Love inside you that has the capacity and compassion to forgive, the humility to grieve and the willingness to make amends where necessary (and if that’s not possible to let the past be the past) so you can begin and choose again.
You will make mistakes while you are in this body. You will f*ck up again and again. You can learn to learn from your mistakes and you can learn to forgive yourself and others.. again and again. You can learn to say more authentic Yes’s and more authentic No’s. You can learn to be ok with not knowing how “right now”. You can learn to allow Love to embrace the parts of you that you reject.
I like this affirmation, recommended by one of my teachers Robert Holden, ” I am Loved in the process of learning to be more Loving.” He also reminded me just this weekend that when we Meditate we are, “Light sitting in Light and Love sitting in Love”. Remember you already are what you seek.
This realisation doesn’t happen on the outside. This journey does not require external validation. It does not require expensive programs (they may or may not be helpful) or fancy Yoga pants (although they can be comfortable to sit in lol).
It does require courage, some grit and the willingness to close your eyes, to breathe deeply the Spirit of Life, as you practice listening for the sound of Silence from which the voice of your own SOUL arises. Over time you will come to know that all the rest is not worth your precious attention.
Will you stop, even if it is for 5 minutes a day (20 mins is better 😉) to receive the inner gift (that is free) of your own Presence so you can walk this world knowing and BEing who you truly are at your very core?
Remember your attention has become a commodity. Reclaim it!
If you want to learn more about Heart Words and how to Meditate with them with an eyes closed and eyes open practice, to become more yourSelf and less manipulatable (is that even a word, lol) by external forces, join us tonight or any Monday for Meditation Cafe 7.30pm on zoom. Here’s the registration link:
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