The Best Secret Happiness and Healing Mindfulness Meditation Tips
Essential emotional hacks for a meaningful life
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Q. Lewis, I keep reading about mindful meditation. What is this and why is it important for self-improvement.
A. There are many forms of meditation. Back in 1971, I began my spiritual journey with transcendental meditation. This was the Beatles’ and Beach Boys’ meditation through the Maharishi. Today many young people automatically seek the best meditation apps. I think before anything else we need to begin with the question “what is meditation?”
Many meditation teachers I have studied with over the years have always pointed out that quiet mindfulness, is not only a tool for inner peace but external peace as well. I have come to call this the Razors Edge of Conservation and Balance. Using meditation as a way to isolate my personal resources and consider how to conserve them.
With this idea in mind, I have always been intrigued by the ideas of the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. He observed in 1906 that for many phenomena, 20% of invested energy is responsible for 80% of the results. This important statistic reflects the value of conserving and balancing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual resources as a means to reducing struggle, and suffering.
I have observed among many of my students that those who develop a mastery of conserving and leveraging their most accessible resources such as time, space, emotional energy, etc., experience less unnecessary struggle than those who do not. Defining your strengths and learning to conserve them and apply them effectively and efficiently is not a simple exercise. This is a constant process that requires the ability to leverage different resources.
Conservation and balance is a discipline that is innate but often repressed or ignored in exchange for short-term gain and immediate gratification. Once an individual has committed to the Wisdom Path this idea of consistent conservation and balance becomes as natural as breathing.
Conserving and balancing is a step-by-step process. Each step requires a distinct awareness. If you are not conscious and have not transcended attachment to short-term gratification, you can take this concept, which is a path to freedom, and turn it into a rigid, mental prison. The greater your awareness and the less your attachment to old ways of thinking, dogma, and short-term gratification, the less unnecessary struggle you will experience, and the more laughter and joy that will come into your life.
“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.”
Arianna Huffington
It is often said that “anything done in moderation is not destructive” but that, of course, isn’t necessarily so. Moderate self-destructive behavior is nevertheless self-destructive. If you understand the value of conserving resources, you may still have difficulty balancing them, especially if in this process of conservation you are motivated by pride, vanity, ambition, and hunger to own more and more or experience greater and greater pleasure at any cost. Unfortunately, those who delude themselves by acting in destructive ways, even if moderately so, don’t know who they are, where they are, where they are going, where they have been, or the cost they are bound to pay later.
The Takeaway
A person in an ordinary state of being may push things to the point of excess and then claim he or she is being moderate. Unfortunately, this way of thinking and living, more often than not, leads to an unpleasant end. Understanding mindfulness, conservation, and balance is not just a philosophical issue. It is connected to an individual’s ability to survive, prosper, and find happiness. It is only the immature, unaware, arrogant, or emotionally unbalanced person that struggles with this concept.
In the end, the unmindful person is the first to succumb to a dangerous, toxic or stressful environment.
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Author: Lewis Harrison is a practical philosopher, an Independent Scholar, and a Results-Oriented Success Coach. He has a passion for knowledge, personal development, applied game theory, self-improvement, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, functional medicine, natural healing, and story-telling. He is a practitioner of Transmoderm Zen. Lewis Harrison is also a speaker, best-selling author, and the creator of the Best Course to Happiness…at Last.
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