Worth The Time
Meditating More When Our Plates Are Full

Ironically, when we get busy, the first thing that tends to get cut back is our meditation practice. We have less time and a lot on our plates, so it makes sense that this happens, but in the end it doesn’t really help us. Most of us know from experience that we function much better when we give ourselves time each day to sit in silence. And the more we have to do, the more we need that solitary, quiet time for the day ahead. As a result, while it may sound counterintuitive, it is during busy times that we most need to spend more time in meditation rather than less. By being quiet and listening to the universe, we will be given what we need to get through our day.

Expanding our morning meditation by just 10 minutes can make a big difference, as can the addition of short meditations into our daily schedule. The truth is, no matter how busy we are, unless we are in the midst of a crisis we always have five or 10 minutes to spare. The key is convincing ourselves that spending that time in meditation is the most fruitful choice. We could be getting our dishes done or heading into work earlier instead, so it’s important that we come to value the importance of meditation in the context of all the other things competing for attention in our lives. All we have to do to discover whether it works to meditate more when we are busy is to try it.

We can start by creating more time in the morning, either by getting up earlier or by preparing breakfast the night before and using the extra time for meditation. We can also add short meditation breaks into our schedule, from five minutes before or after lunch to a meditation at night before we go to sleep. When we come from a place of centered calm, we are more effective in handling our busy schedules and more able to keep it all in perspective. If more time in meditation means less time feeling anxious, panicky, and overwhelmed, then it’s certainly worth the extra time.

from Daily Om

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“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose

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“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”

Deepak Chopra
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

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“My notion about service is that service is actually that kind of
relationship in which you have a commitment to the person. What I mean, in
fact, is that for me what service is about is being committed to the other
being. To who the other person is. To the degree that you are, in fact,
committed to the other person, you are only as valuable as you can deal with
the other person’s stuff, their evidence, their manifestation, and that’s
what’s service is about. Service is about knowing who the other person is
and being able to tolerate giving space to their garbage. What most people
do is is to give space to people’s quality and deal with their garbage.
Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and
give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God.”

Werner Erhard
via Greg Nice’s Daily Dose

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Now Is The Time – Bloom Where You Are Planted

Having a vision for our future that differs from our current circumstances can be inspiring and exciting, but it can also keep us from fully committing to our present placement. We may become aware that this is happening when we notice our thoughts about the future distracting us from our participation in the moment. We may find upon searching our hearts that we are waiting for some future time or situation in order to self-actualize. This would be like a flower planted in North Dakota putting off blooming because it would prefer to do so in Illinois.

There are no guarantees in this life, so when we hold back we do so at the risk of never fully blossoming. This present moment always offers us the ground in which we can take root and open our hearts now. What this means is that we live fully, wherever we are, not hesitating because conditions are not perfect, or we might end up moving, or we haven,t found our life partner. This can be scary, because we might feel that we are giving up our cherished dreams if we do not agree to wait for them. But this notion that we have to hold back our life force now in order to find happiness later doesn,t really make sense. What might really be happening is that we are afraid to embrace this moment, and ourselves, just exactly as we are right now. This constitutes a tendency to hold back from fully loving ourselves, as we are, where we are.

We have a habit of presenting life with a set of conditions~ifs and whens that must be fulfilled before we will say yes to the gift of our lives. Now is the time for each of us to bloom where we are planted, overriding our tendency to hold back. Now is the time to say yes, to be brave and commit fully to ourselves, because until we do no one else will. Now is the time to be vulnerable, unfolding delicately yet fully into the space in which we find ourselves.

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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

This simple phrase is extremely powerful and can be used to change your mindset for the better in most situations.

The Power of Intention – Dr. Wayne Dyer

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From Consciousness — Not of the World

You are not of the world, you are not even in the world. The world
is not, you alone are. You create the world in your imagination like
a dream. As you cannot separate the dream from yourself, so you cannot have an outer world independent of yourself. You are independent, not the world. Don’t be afraid of a world you yourself have created.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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This one follows on nicely from yesterday’s theme about the paradoxical search for security. Here Gangaji contemplates the nature of ‘letting go’, and surrendering to the Universe.

Letting Go

The desire to be in control, the illusion of being in control, and the hope of being in control are all based on the megalomaniacal belief that you know when and what the outcome should be.

Obviously, you can control many things to a greater or lesser degree, but there is nothing that you can totally control. Youcan control your bodily functions to a degree, as well as circumstances, thoughts, emotions, position, and survival, but you can never have complete control.

You need no model for letting go. You cannot ‘do’ letting go. Neither is letting go a kind of saintly passivity, not being bothered by anything. The mind is very slippery and can even use the desire to let go as a tactic for control.

Letting go of control is a deeper relaxation, a floating on the ocean. You can become aware of where you are holding on, and you can just let go and allow the ocean to hold you. You can become aware that all your tension and clinging are unnecessary, and then relax and let yourself be supported.

From: ‘The Diamond in Your Pocket‘, by Gangaji.
www.gangaji.org/
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often
what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and
safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.

Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not
knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance
yourself from the Freedom you want. There is no security in Freedom,
at least not in the sense that we normally think of it. This is, of
course, why it is so free; there ís nothing there to grab hold of.

The Unknown is more vast, more open, more peaceful, and more freeing
than you ever imagined it would be. If you don’t experience it that
way, it means you’re not resting there; you’re still trying to know.
That will cause you to suffer because you’re choosing security over
Freedom.

Adyashanti (Steven Gray)

Recommended reading from Adyashanti:
Emptiness Dancing
Spontaneous Awakening
The Impact of Awakening

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