Living in Perspective with Daily Meditation

There are many reasons why you should do meditation practice every day: meditation can relax your body and mind, as well as enhance your spiritual connection. Meditation is excellent mind training, in which you focus a distracted mind on awareness—mindfulness of what is happening around you, such as your breathing, your bodily sensations, and your thoughts. Without this awareness or mindfulness, there is no stress meditation, or spiritual meditation. Meditation is all about re-focusing the mind on what is important and discarding what is irrelevant or insignificant. In other words, meditation helps you with living in perspective.


In meditation, you find the quiet or stillness between sounds and thoughts and experiences. It is this underlying quietness—so quiet that you can almost hear it—that forms a link between you and your sensations and thoughts. Through living in perspective, you learn how to become aware of your adaptation to cope with the mundane world, such as dealing with attitudes and behaviors, as well as pain and stress; knowing yourself better, such as the reasons for your anger or negative emotions; self enlightenment or divine illumination, such as the purpose of your existence. In short, meditation is mental training of awareness of breathing, physical sensations, and mental thoughts by means of focusing only on the present moment, or what is “real” at the present moment.


By training your awareness only to remain present in whatever activity you are undertaking in real life, you will find yourself right in the center of that activity you are engaging in. In this way, you will be doing your very best, and meanwhile getting the greatest satisfaction from doing so.


You can learn how to live in perspective through everyday meditation practice. Mind training through meditation leads to a mental state of stillness that can be maintained no matter what you are doing, or what is happening around you. This is the power of meditation.


You can also learn how to apply meditation in almost anything you do in life. To illustrate, you can meditate while you are walking, instead of listening to the radio or your CD. This is how you can meditate while you are doing your daily walk:

• As you begin walking, let go of the outside world.

• Focus on your breathing: listen to the relaxed sound of your breathing in and breathing out.

• Make you walk slow and purposeful. As you walk, observe each step that you are making. Notice the physical sensation of your feet, as well as the way your arms are swinging back and forth, brushing against your body.

• If distracting thoughts come, do not deliberately dismiss them; instead, re-focus your awareness on your breathing and physical sensations. Continue to walk.

In this way, you can turn almost any everyday activity into meditative nature to enhance your awareness and clarity of mind, which can be life-transforming in that it changes your perspective about almost anything that happens to you. Your senses will come to life; you will see how things change from moment to moment, so you have a better understanding of what is important and what is “real” in your life; you will also find it easier to let go of things you found difficult to let go in the past.


Live your life in perspective with daily meditation practice.


To find out more about meditation, go to my web page: Healing Meditation.


Yes, meditation is life-changing in that it changes your perspective of how you view your health and wellness.




Copyright© by Stephen Lau