What meditating over 100 hours this month has taught me

After attending a meditation seminar in August 2023, which consisted of meditating 12 hours a day for 10 days and one hour of meditation per day since its completion, I seen remodeling advantages in my day by day life.

✨ These are the three Massive Classes realized from meditating over 100 hours this month.

🙏 Meditation helps me to permit emotions, feelings, and sensations and face them with extra equanimity.

It doesn’t matter in the event you really feel ache, pleasure, or upset. Feeling is feeling.

It arises and eventually will move. After I meditate and scan my physique from head to foot for any sensation that arises in the meanwhile, I concentrate on the actual space and observe the feeling with out attempting to evaluate it. It doesn’t matter if the feeling is refined or harsh; stretching over a giant or small space, I transfer on with the physique scan and concentrate on the subsequent a part of the physique.

This train takes away a lot energy from emotions and ideas of concern, ache, or different dominant negatively seen sensations. Taking the feeling as it’s, not attempting to vary it, you cease attempting to resolve one thing there isn’t a answer to.

🏋️‍♂️ The quantity of self-discipline that’s wanted for meditation helps me to cease procrastinating and take motion in different areas of my life.

Each day, I meditate for one hour very first thing within the morning, irrespective of how I really feel.

I’ve a contract with myself to not arise till the timer on my cellphone goes off, even when I’m simply sitting there with out with the ability to focus any extra for the final 10 minutes. I don’t fee my meditation periods. I attempt to do the method. Meditation has no objective or final result. Meditating is the objective.

By once more transferring this to the world of labor, for instance, I set a timeframe for the way lengthy I’ll work on a activity.

Let’s say, writing this text. When perfectionist ideas come up, and I take into consideration quitting, I attempt to use the identical course of as meditation. I sit till the time runs up and don’t depart my workspace. The unfavorable ideas will move, and I proceed with my work.

⌛ By way of meditation, I’ve realized to be extra affected person and to work ahead step-by-step with out wanting on the objective on a regular basis.

This usually creates cravings and melancholy if the objective remains to be far-off. I solely must outline my objective initially to know the place I wish to go. As soon as the path is about, I’ve to optimize for the method.

The submit summarized into 3 key factors:

• Meditation is a useful follow that enables me to confront my emotions, feelings, and sensations with better equanimity.
• The self-discipline required for meditation additionally helps me overcome procrastination and take motion in different features of my life.
• Moreover, meditation has taught me to be extra affected person and concentrate on taking small steps ahead slightly than at all times fixating on the tip objective.