Peace of Mind is an Image Away: Breathing Compassion Meditation, Part I
This is Part I of a two Part Blog.
Meditation connects you with your inner world.
By meditating you learn how to care for the garden of your mind.
First, you learn to identify what is growing there.
Then you learn how to nurture and plant what you want
and weed out what you do not want.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
The one thing that we cannot get enough of, the one thing that there is no possibility of overusing or over receiving or over giving is Compassion and Love. As the saying goes, "No matter what the question, love is the answer."
Whenever you find your self caught up in negative thought patterns, or negative emotional states, being self-critical or critical of another, or enmeshed in your negative imagination or worry, sit back and drink in compassion. As you drink in that compassion all the tension and negativity will start to release. And then you will remember and accept that your natural state of being is that of feeling and being at peace and in the Embrace.
Compassion is at the heart of meditation because it connects you with who you really are and what is truly at your core. Also, without compassion, meditation is all too likely to become just another activity that you do not do enough of or are doing incorrectly or are not getting quick enough results with. So, it is very important to give yourself a good dose of compassion each day.
Most people who practice meditation do not realize how important this is.
This is part I of a two part blog.