Welcome to this new mindful awareness and meditation forum, a space to reflect, share experience, and ask questions. Below you will find questions, quotes, and observations to consider together. You are free to ask whatever is on your mind in relation to your experience of mindfulness and meditation. From time to time I may also share talks or meditations.
We have three guidelines for sharing:
🔸 Use kind and inclusive speech
🔸 Speak from the heart and from experience: this is not a place for intellectual discussion
🔸 Please refrain from giving advice. Instead, share your experience and what worked for you, without any expectation that others should do the same.
Here are some discussion threads, you can submit your own at the bottom of the page.
Question: I can’t meditate, when I try to sit I just keep thinking and planning. What advice can you offer?
Asha: Often when we begin meditation it appears that we are thinking more than ever. In fact what is happening is that we are becoming aware of what is happening in the mind. Nothing has changed—yet—we are just more aware of it. And that’s what meditation is: becoming aware.
The first thing we become aware of is how active the mind is. Later our awareness expanded and we gain greater calm, clarity, ease and resilience.
You aren’t doing it wrong when you notice lots of thoughts, in fact you are doing it right! You are aware of what is happening in the mind. That is the first step on the path of transformation and liberation.
“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present. ” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I have found that planting the seeds of mindfulness has been the single biggest determining factor in improving my experience of life, enabling me to heal from debilitating illness and create a new life.
What is your experience with reaping the fruits of mindful awareness?
If you could have what your heart desires, what would that give you?
When I look at what I would like to have it becomes clear that what I really want to experience is ease, connection, joy… and those are the fruits of mindfulness, not of the things I think I want! Then I open myself to understanding what Taoist master Lao Tzu meant when he said the wise want only to want nothing! I’m not that wise, yet. LOL
You can submit your experience or pose questions you would like to explore below.
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