Send Me To Sleep | Meditation
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I think the majority of people in this world when thinking about the idea of meditation get this cliched imagery in their mind of perhaps this cross-legged individual in a robe sat on a mountain top or perhaps on the grass in a shady glen next to a gently flowing waterfall. They have their eyes closed and their hands in their lap with their palms upturned and This person that they're imagining is perhaps a monk or someone of some great spiritual significance. And I feel like this imagery of meditation makes the idea of it for the everyday person seem like something that is not made for them, that is for a particular kind of person who is perhaps more spiritual than they are, that meditation is maybe in some way linked to religious practice.
all that meditation is just something that other kinds of people do, and that there's no real place for it in everyday life. And I think that's a real shame. Because, even though I cannot attest to be someone who regularly meditates, I do so when I can, when I find I have a good moment to. And I also understand, from having done it a little bit myself in my life, the real importance of meditations. And that again, I think, is not a word that most people would attach to the idea of meditation. That it is important when you ask people, you know, what do you get, what do you think people get out of meditating? They may say they find it relaxing, they find it restful, they find it refreshing, perhaps find it calming, but finding it
Difficult, perhaps, is not something they might say. Finding it hard work is perhaps not something they would say. Finding it utterly profound is probably not an association most people would have with the idea of meditation, and I think that probably is because most people don't have a strong grasp of what it is that one is trying to do when meditating, what utility it really is to one's life.
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