Written by Lorenzo Colombo, co-founder at Soulful Soundwaves
Meditation is a practice that brings balance, bliss, peace, joy into our lives. When you understand how to approach it it becomes an invaluable companion, your best friend, because it really allows us to be the best version of ourselves.
The apparent difficulty for western people to approach meditation comes from the need to understand it from a rational point of view. We need to see it, acknowledge it, explain it using our mind. The only problem is that the frontal cortex of our brain that we use to process and understand things is also the place where our ego and our monkey mind reside. That is where the problem arises, as we are trying to access stillness letting our worst troublemakers loose. Sounds like lighting a birthday candle with a flamethrower.
Binaural beats definitely help, but depending on how much we allow our troublemakers to roam free, we might find it hard to get to our little place of bliss. Also we can start feeling the effects of brain entraining frequencies after 15-20 minutes, so we need to do the best we can to help calm our spinning mind until then.
So here are a few tips to follow to make it a bit easier to access that blissful state we strive to reach every day. Just keep in mind that this is not the only way to do it, it is a way that works for me and I hope it might help you as well.
Everything starts with your breath. Follow it, observe it, and for the first time in your day be thankful for the only thing we cannot do without.
Observe your thoughts. Find out how many voices there are in your head. Don’t worry, it’s completely normal. Listen to what they are saying. Imagine yourself staring at them. You’ll notice that as soon as they feel themselves watched the will become quieter. Try to keep yourself in this state as long as you can.
Ask for forgiveness. For not being able to be the best version of yourself all the time, not to be able to forgive others sometimes, to be human, therefore prone to mistakes.
Be thankful for your gifts. You were given instinctive abilities, some of which you developed in your craft. Others you might not know of yet.
Trust the masterplan, there is a grand design already at play. Everything has a reason to be in the way it is, it is up to us to learn from it. Let go of control, things are already happening for you, you just need to release the grip on your steering wheel to see them.
Don’t read this instructions while you are trying to meditate.
