Lent Meditation Week 3 Daily activities
This week we are looking at being focused and taking our quiet times into our daily lives.
So many of us live very busy and complex lives in which it is usually very difficult to stay focused to that calm centre we find during meditation. There are some practises you can do during your daily activities that will help to keep you in that still place and view your actions objectively. This will only work if you regularly meditate or have quiet time or prayer time during the day. So the first thing to do is find time for yourself to be quiet for at least 10 minutes two to three times a day. This can be a walk, or toilet break, tea break etc. Even better is a specific regular time, free from interruptions. During these times practise the meditation from week one.
Now to take the meditation into our daily activities. As you go about your normal day and encounter stress. Then bring yourself back to the point in the meditation where you are observing thoughts that take you away from concentrating on your fingers. Observe the thoughts you are having in this stress moment and let the them float away. Your inner calm self is observing the reactive thoughts. In time this calm self that is observing will take over and you will find your reactions to the world around you will change. This takes practise. Take it slowly and in time you will find you are doing it naturally. There will still be triggers that will take you away from this calm centre and take you into a reactive state. You will recognise these more and more and will observe them, just let them float away.
Dedicate your meditation for the good of all living beings and offer it to God or the universe which ever you feel comfortable with.
