This is a meditation about embracing life.
Those things around you that sometimes can be annoying or nuisance or challenging and just accepting what is the sounds the noises around you.
Remembering that this is all part of life.
That meditation in the most perfect space,
The most quiet space,
You know,
Stored away,
Tucked away in your own little world is one thing.
But being able to be mindful and appreciate life and find your inner calm in the middle of whatever is happening around you is kind of an interesting skill to develop.
And as you hear the sounds in the background of wherever you are or the background of where I am,
You can just appreciate that this is part of life.
That noises and sounds and distractions are all about interpretation.
It's about how we look at the world,
About how we look at our thoughts.
And so taking a moment here to just take a nice deep breath in and another deep breath out.
And realize that all that is going around us doesn't really have to affect how we show up in this space,
Show up for ourselves.
Taking that deep breath in again.
Deep breath out.
Whatever happens around you doesn't have to be happening inside you.
It doesn't have to affect you.
If we can remember this more often,
No matter where we are,
No matter what we're doing,
This can be very helpful to us.
Taking another deep breath in,
Just in and out.
Focus on you,
Where you are right now,
What you're doing right now,
Which is sitting here meditating.
What everybody else is doing,
All the other sounds and noises are their life.
And if we look at that with a frustration,
Then we have our frustration.
If we look at that as irrelevant to what we're doing at the moment,
Or if we look at it with appreciation of like,
I remember when I used to play in the pool,
Enjoy my life like that.
Hmm,
Maybe I should enjoy swimming and laughing,
Whatever as well.
Or just appreciate the other people are doing that thing.
Maybe for you it's a different sound.
It's motorbikes or cars or music or talk radio or whatever it is that's happening around you.
Just try to notice that you are separate from that.
You can still take a deep breath in,
Deep breath out,
And be here in this moment no matter what is happening around you.
Even my voice,
Even what I'm saying,
You can choose whether you want to listen to what I'm saying,
Or whether you just stay in your own world and breathe in and breathe out on your own timing.
I often host meditations in the park while I'm traveling and people think that this is probably not the greatest place to do it because it's so busy and active and and just yelling and screaming and people selling things and and motorbikes passing or cars you know passing depending on where we are.
And then at the end there's always somebody who comments about how actually this was really interesting,
You know,
It's really different to be able to find that space even though these things are happening around us and actually embrace those things and not see it as a problem but see it as sort of an interesting challenge to step away from that mentally you know and be in your own space or appreciate those things and show up in a different way instead of judging those things as being bad or causing a problem or being not meditative or something.
So see if you can do that for yourself this week sometime,
You know,
Stepping away no matter where you are,
A busy place,
See if you can just take a deep breath in,
Might be on the subway or on a bus or in traffic or whatever it is,
Things around you that could be considered frustrating.
It's the mind that causes the suffering so if we can look at those things differently maybe those things will change.
I think it was Wayne Dyer that said something that changed the way you think and or what changed the way you think about the world and the world changes or something like this and I think it's very true,
You know,
How we see the world through our thinking,
Through our mind is oftentimes a big impact on how we experience the world and how we experience life.
So thank you for joining me today for this talk slash meditation.
Again,
How do you see this experience and how you judge it?
Is it were you hoping to be quiet and just meditating?
Were you hoping to hear someone guide you taking a deep breath again,
You know,
Just at this last moment breathing in,
Breathing out,
Just loving what is in the moment.
