I Love Meditation

The mind often tells us that meditation is just another thing that burdens us. Instead, let us change our attitude and habits by coming back to positivity, through a quiet still connection to ourselves. With a beautifully relaxing 8-minute guided meditation with several silent spaces, Tony Samara offers us affirmations for creating pleasant simple feelings that allow for greater resilience, and the motivation to continue creating clear structures with our practice.

Thank you.

Transcript

RelRL Just preparing for the transmission,

Making sure that if you're distracted by any externals,

If you have a phone that's there in the background,

Turn it off.

If you have any technologies that may disturb you,

Make sure that they're turned off so that you can really focus on starting these next few minutes,

15-20 minutes,

To come back to a deep state of meditation.

As you breathe in,

Deep breath,

And just make sure that you sense that it feels good to be in meditation.

You know,

You can repeat to yourself,

This feels great,

I love meditation.

Very often the mind will create this sort of scenario where you think to yourself,

On a subconscious level very often,

You think to yourself,

Oh,

Another thing that I have to do,

My busy day.

And then it just becomes a burden.

But if you repeat to yourself that it feels great to sit in meditation,

Then you begin to use the wisdom,

The ancient wisdom of how it's possible to change your focus so that you come back to positivity.

This today in psychology has proven to be very good in helping to change behaviors and concepts that we hold on to as reality,

Our thoughts,

Our habits.

And it's very easy to change those habits when you come back to positivity.

So this is why it was you.

You're practicing meditation now.

So obviously you feel good.

It feels good to do this.

And you love sitting in meditation.

Perhaps you don't love the way that the mind reacts to different situations,

But you love to give yourself the space to just be nurtured by this inner quiet,

Still connection to yourself.

And if,

Even if the mind is busy,

You know,

If you're saying,

I have to breathe,

I have to let go,

You are actually letting go into a space of stillness.

It's more still than a mind that is distracted by entertainment and activity.

And perhaps on some level,

It feels like you're,

You're,

You're not agitated,

But you are.

When you sit in meditation,

Even if the agitation comes up to the surface and you,

You feel the stress or the anxiety of everyday type situations,

Too busy,

Too tired,

Can't manage all the things,

Sitting in meditation just helps you to come back to resilience,

Gives you motivation to continue.

And this is why so very important to come back to stillness and silence.

This helps you to be very productive.

This is what I speak about,

The structure.

It's important to create a clear structure.

So as you sit in meditation now,

This is your first time.

Just think to yourself,

Create an intention within this feeling and deep thinking that you're embracing.

Think,

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I bring this practice to be,

Bring this practice into my life so that I'm bringing this practice as a daily routine into my life,

Even if it's just five minutes,

Three minutes,

Doesn't matter,

Make it possible.

Because then you will connect to the wondrous benefits of meditation.

The regular practice is truly,

Truly important.

You know,

If your mind is in the background saying,

I should be working instead,

I should do the dishes,

Breathe,

Breathe,

Breathe.

Then you think,

Oh,

I'm really hungry.

I'd love to eat my breakfast.

Maybe I should go and have breakfast.

All that's going on inside of your mind.

Know that what you're doing is you're creating a new structure.

That's,

That's the way the mind reacts to this new structure.

It distracts,

Pulls your focus away from the new structure and tries to pull you back into old ways,

Old habits,

Old ways of doing things or understanding things.

And it's okay to be present to this.

It's okay.

Even if it's stressful,

We spoke about meditation being relaxing and beautiful and you love meditation.

You can love your stress.

You can love your anxiety.

And so that you just come back to a sense of resilience and you watch what's going on rather than trying to change.

Meditation is not about trying.

Meditation is about going with the flow.

The less you do,

The more you achieve.

If you're moving with the flow,

Then there is no need for resistance and effort to change whatever it is that you're struggling with.

The flow just happens.

This flow happens first in your mind.

So if your mind is distracted by I need to be working instead or whatever,

Stress or anxiety that happens in the background,

Then just repeat to yourself deep within that this is the practice.

This is an important part of the way that you're structuring your life so that you come back to deeper happiness,

Deeper sense of contentment.

Resilience really embraces happiness as a fundamental aspect of the change.

You know,

Resilience isn't just about being strong.

Resilience is also about being in connection to positive feelings,

Happiness,

Contentment,

Sense of wellbeing,

A sense of joy that then feeds you and helps you to create this structure in a long term way,

You know,

So that your behaviour changes.

Your behaviour meaning the negative bias that manipulates the negative bias,

The need to see things as problems that then manipulates your positivity into perhaps overwhelm or stress or depression.

So just breathing in,

Just imagining that you're relaxing.

Because as you imagine things,

As you visualise things,

And this also happens because the brain in this state of consciousness only understands what's going on in this moment.

So even if the stress is there in the future,

In this moment,

As you embrace the breath and relax and visualise,

Just letting go of tension,

Then you're really helping the brain to function from a deep state of consciousness.

So this functionality becomes part of your meditation.

And slowly,

Slowly,

Your meditation will change.

If you're stressed,

Or if you're sort of struggling with your meditation,

Then this will change.

Deep breath as you relax into stillness.

Deep breath.

To breathe in and open up to your meditational journey,

Know that meditation will change your life,

But only if you change your life to fit meditation into your structure,

Into your daily routine,

Into the way that you understand things.

There is no compromise here.

As you sit in meditation,

You're embracing the routine and the stability that creates a fundamental structure deep within.

And trust that meditation as you sit in stillness is helping you to travel to all parts of yourself,

But those parts of yourself will not be as disruptive as perhaps they would be if you don't,

If you didn't connect to those aspects of yourself from this deeper state of consciousness.

Just breathing in and breathing out,

Letting go,

Connecting to the natural flow that's within you and within life.

Deep breath.

As you breathe in and breathe out,

Let go.

Know that you are embracing change,

You're embracing this new structure,

You're creating healthy,

Positive routines in the way that your brain and the way that your mind is able to communicate to different situations.

As you sit in meditation,

This is a wonderfully healthy,

Transformative routine that you're embracing.

Also,

Remind yourself that these routines continue in your everyday type situations.

If you worry about too much work,

Too many things,

And just remind yourself that you will schedule this in your creative routine and you'll surround yourself with all sorts of positive reminders that celebrate that you're resilient and that you're not overwhelmed as such,

But you're getting through the meditational journeys helping you to get through your day in a happy and joyous way.

Deep breath.

You may want to include other people in your visualization.

This very often helps to create a healthy structure because you're not alone,

You're supported.

You're supported by the invisible guides around you,

The mystics,

Some people say the angels,

Just the positive energy that's all around you.

You're supported to give life and to nurture this structure.

You're supported from what may seem invisible around you,

But you're supported to keep moving forward so that this resilience helps you to connect to the positive within you,

But also the positive around you.

So imagine the situations that you may be overwhelmed by,

Imagine that those are changing and that you're being helped,

You're being nurtured by just good luck,

Abundance,

And a sense of positive kindness that comes your way.

Just imagine this,

Remember visualizing means that you actually experience this in this moment in your meditation.

Everything is supporting you,

Everything is helping to heal you so that you transform and create this new beautiful structure that helps you to relax into this deep state of consciousness,

That's meditation.

Deep breath.

Always look for pleasant feelings that connect you to the present moment.

Just enjoy the quietness in the room or the warmth that you feel if you have a blanket on your knees or just the sense of connection,

The calmness that you're experiencing,

The flow,

The equanimity,

The sense of just being centered and connected.

Focus and connect to these pleasant feelings.

It's very easy for a mind that is caught in the negative to just ignore these simple yet very positive aspects of your meditation.

Meditation is such a privilege to enjoy and nurture it and repeat this mantra within you.

Repeat this mantra and visualize this mantra so that it becomes part of your intention for today.

It feels great to meditate.

I love meditation.

Deep breath.

As you breathe in and breathe out,

Just let go into the stillness.

Continue in stillness for a few more moments.

And at the end,

Remind yourself that meditation is a daily habit.

Meditation is part of life.

So bring this sense of gratitude,

This sense of joy,

This sense of love into your meditation,

But also focus on these positive aspects throughout your day so that meditation becomes very much more the fundamental aspect of the new structure that you're giving birth to,

This new way of living,

This new way of thinking,

This new way of communicating,

This new structure.

Thank you.