In meditation we learn to gently bring our thoughts back to our breath. It doesn't matter how many times we have to do it. We just keep coming back.
In meditation we also learn that our thoughts are simply to be noticed. You don't beat yourself up for thinking of your breakfast menu, your to do list or an angry thought during mediatation. You simply return to breath.
Many say the return to breath is the entire reason to meditate.
Those minutes in meditation can teach us about reaching our goals.
And to embrace the miracle of the return.
I made the goal of writing a blog everyday in 2017.
For various reasons, I did not post a blog one day.
I got irritated at myself.
And didn't write one the next day.
Then got even angrier and skipped yet another day.
"I just may as well give up" I told myself.
We all have similar stories.
We make a mistake in the quest of achieving something and we give up.
Maybe there is another way.
Maybe achieving our goals could be like meditation.
We set a goal.
We get off track.
We notice it.
We get right back on track.
If we attempt to achieve a goal like we meditate, we leave out the suffering.
In meditation it simply doesn't matter how many times you drift into thought. The only thing that matters is you come back.
It is the same with achieving anything.
It doesn't matter how many times you get off course. The only thing that matters is that you get right back without the suffering.
Blessings,
Virginia
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