Come Back to Yourself

Meditation is often described as the foundation of good health. But why?

Because before you can change something, you have to be able to notice what is happening. Your brain thinks. Your body senses. Your biofield receives and responds to the world around you. All of that information is moving through your Human Energy System, all the time. Meditation gives you a way to become conscious of it. Instead of automatically following every thought, emotion, sensation, or reaction, you begin to witness your experience from the present moment.

And this is where things get interesting.

You discover that you are not every thought your brain produces. Your thinking mind has an important job. It remembers, compares, organizes, predicts, analyzes, and helps you make sense of your experiences.

Very useful. But it isn't supposed to run the whole show.

Meditation helps restore that relationship by strengthening your ability to notice what is happening within you without immediately becoming it. In Human Energy System language, your awareness engages first. Your body communicates next. Your mind then has the opportunity to understand what your body is already showing you.

The more present you become, the more choice you have in what happens next. That is where self-awareness becomes self-agency.

Let's meditate.

A Simple Four-Step Practice

1. Get comfortable.
Sit in a comfortable position with your spine naturally aligned. Allow a gentle curve through your lower back and let your chin drop slightly.
Close your eyes if that feels comfortable.

Begin noticing your breath moving in and out through your nose.

Don't change it. Just notice it.

2. Notice when you've left your breath.
 
Eventually, you'll discover that you're thinking.
Or planning.
Or remembering.
Or feeling something.

Excellent.

That's the practice.
The moment you notice where you've gone, awareness has returned.

You are now witnessing the thought, feeling or emotion rather than unconsciously traveling with it.

3. Acknowledge where you went, or what you experienced while there.
Instead of fighting the thought,  feeling or emotion, simply recognize it.

Say "Hello."
I see you.
Thank you.
You don't have to solve it.
You don't have to understand it.
You've noticed it.
That's enough.

4. Return to your breath.
Bring your attention back to the sensation of breathing through your nostrils.
And then...this same process will...

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Thought.

Notice.
 
Acknowledge.
 
Return.

Repeat.
 
That's meditation.
 
And every return is another moment of consciously orienting yourself toward more personal awareness. Your cognitive mind will begin to listen rather than rule you. 

 "There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind- you are the one who hears it." 

Quote By: The Untethered Soul