I was meditating this morning and I started going over an exchange I had with someone at work that became heated. I thought about how wrong the person was. I thought about how I might have had a better comeback. I went over it in my mind and I was tempted to spend my meditation time this way.
It’s so easy to get caught up in my own thoughts and to replay a scene. Of course, that is not the point of meditation. So, how do you avoid the temptation? Today, as I was thinking about that conversation, I realized that beneath the “figuring” mind and beneath the “mental chatter” is information that I need. I reminded myself that everything I need to know, I already do know. All I have to do is get out of the way and let the information surface. It is actually quite comforting to have this thought. It takes away the struggle, the searching, the desperate energy I feel when I’m in “solve” mode.
I’ve read in books about meditation, that when the mind is still, it is like a body of water that is still–you can see to the bottom. That’s the image that helps me move easily back to focusing on my breath. When I got up from meditating I realized that I would also have been better off during that heated exchange to be quieter. I decided that next time I feel my anger beginning to rise, the best thing to do is react less and listen more so I could better understand what was really happening.
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