Living Meditation

With his face and eyes aglow, in the dim candle lit cozy atmosphere of the restaurant, Dan taught me that meditation is being willing to come back to the beginning. Back to the awareness that you need to start agin. And being okay with it. It is not about being able to abate your thoughts for an extended period of time. “There is no glory in thinking you are not thinking for 20 minutes straight,” he said. ‘It’s about recognizing the rise of the thought and being willing to put it down and start over.’ Reflecting on this lesson I realize the correlation with the message of Spiritual Hygiene.

This is what Spiritual Hygiene is all about! While we’re out here living each day, in the midst of all of the thoughts and actions, all of the interactions and transactions of our day, the doubts, or limiting thoughts that creep onto and into us… coming back to what’s really true, adjusting our mindset and operating from and in that power.