This is an introduction to instinctive meditation.
To be interested in or embarking on a meditation journey means one or more of a couple of things.
You've tried meditating and thinking you're doing it wrong.
It's not working,
Your mind isn't still.
Someone has recommended you meditate because you're stressed and it would be good for you.
You know people who are meditating and you're wondering what all the fuss is about.
Or an employer or health practitioners recommended meditation is good for everyone.
Let's be honest,
Most of us have a picture in our minds of what a meditator looks like and have heard a lot about mindfulness but do we have any idea how to go about meditating?
What does a successful meditation practice look and feel like and how do we know it's working?
Here are a few questions to ponder to begin to understand what your own paradigm about meditation is.
Let's think on your attitude towards these for a minute.
Do you need to sit?
Do the eyes need to be closed?
Do you have to chant in a language other than your own?
Do you have to watch your breath?
Do you have to have an empty mind,
A still mind?
Do you have to look and serene and compose all you do?
You have to be serene and composed if you meditate.
Let's take a moment to write down all that you think you know about meditation.
What are some rules that you think meditators follow?
If you join us in embarking on the experience of instinctive meditation we're likely going to break down a number of these paradigms.
We're giving permission to break the rules that have been imposed on people contemplating meditation for the last 40 or 50 years and provide you with skills to develop your own natural instinctive meditation practice that will be with you and will be yours forever.
The philosophy techniques and skills taught as instinctive meditation are wholly based around the greater than 50 years experience and work of Dr.
Lauren Roche who is the author of several books on meditation with his partner Camille Maureen.
Together they run workshops and meditation teacher trainings that are world-renowned.
Dr.
Roche has been fully immersed in traditional meditation practices however he came to understand that the traditions of the East were not necessarily suitable for those of us living in the West.
He brings the wisdom of the ancient sages and texts to reality in modern day.
Meditation made easy,
The radiant sutras and meditation secrets for women which was co-authored with Camille are written for we who live with families,
Jobs,
Responsibilities,
Emotions and desires.
They're really training manuals in themselves but throughout your engagement with instinctive meditation we'll endeavor to develop a practice that feels as natural and easeful for you as doing something that you love to do.
When you feel your best self and you seem to lose time.
The basic techniques are very simple but the skills to maintain your practice,
The ability to continue through the healing journey that comes with commencing your meditation practice.
These are how we gain the benefits we seek.
So what are the benefits of meditation and particularly instinctive meditation?
In short,
Hopefully you'll become more in love with life,
With your life.
This is a simple yet infinitely complex goal at once and this is one of the sizzages of meditation but there will be more on that later.
For now though think what is something that I love to do so much that I feel totally naturally myself.
A time where I feel lost in being and time just flies by unnoticed and when we be with ourselves in such a way and we accept whatever arises and we encourage whatever arises.
We embrace whatever arises.
We celebrate whatever arises and all of who we are.
This is the instinctive meditation and this is our invitation to you.
