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From “Learning From Your Animal Teachers”: “What is Meditation?”
Meditation is important in stilling your mind. When your mind’s chatter ceases, then you can tap into your inner wisdom. Meditation is a way to connect and experience the Spirit. From intimate contact with the Spirit, you will find your soul’s purpose. Also, meditation refreshes you and gives you energy to live abundantly.
Most people think that meditation only means sitting still and chanting. Some people cannot sit still, while others find sitting to be distracting. Sitting is one way, but there are many other ways that suit people’s needs, and that can be incorporated into their daily lives. For example, you can meditate on your daily commute by bus to work. What is necessary is to successfully meditate is to be completely mindful of what you are doing.
A repetitive activity or an engrossing one is as good as sitting and chanting. Doing needlepoint is a reflective activity. A person is lulled by the rhythm of the push and pull of the needle through the cloth. When they are finished, they have created something of beauty. Another venue is cooking in a mindful way. As person chooses the food for themselves and their families and prepares it, they connect to a Higher Spirit. Cooking, needlework, wood-carving, and other similar activities focus the person to the task at hand and takes them out of themselves. When people are engaged in these activities, they become attached to something deeper. Their insights come bubbling to the surface. The mind and body become joined in a meaningful way.
Va. Carper
January 22, 2007