Spring’s a season and a state of mind
Is the outside weather matching your weather inside?
Suddenly, we're supposed to feel light and lifted, like the beautiful season, like the pretty flowers, like a clear blue sky; however, winter was long and spring's all over the place. Of consolation to your potential density at the moment is that we are actually in kapha season, spring season, characterized by heaviness, dampness and associated lethargy and sluggishness.
What can you do right now?
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Meditation resurrects faith, as you engage with it as a daily practice. Although we know it as a way to calm us down and to focus the mind, there are infinite reasons to practice, many of which can be narrowed down into the following four categories: to minimize suffering, to receive benefits, to gain insight, to enter proximity with the divine.
To minimize suffering derived from our own samskara-s, we need to become a safe haven for our own selves. A non-judgemental incubator for a transforming version of the I we have known to grow into its next incarnation of being. Our suffering will always be a mystery until we begin to fortify our minds and hearts with qualities we need to heal. Until we begin to create a calm inner environment to unwrap it and unravel the tightly woven fabric of who we are. As interfacing with ourselves happens evolves differently, our ways of engaging with those around us shifts from a primary cause of suffering to a sustainable solution-in-progress.
Meditation is not Santa Claus; however, it does grant the superpower of earned benefits, which can reveal themselves in any dimension. How is it that a student who is about to retire is able to ward off curious peoples’ questions about “what’s next” with firm diplomacy now, whereas she previously dreaded telling others in the professional environment? Her meditation subject currently affords her with a grander perspective, a zoom-out that facilitates ease within that she carries with her, replacing disdain for the interactions with simple matter-of-fact, mind/heart/mouth aligned communication.
Gaining insight is an inside job. Life’s difficult questions can rarely be answered from the mind structure we were in when the quandaries occur. The learning happens from a reconfigured mind whose lens is less occluded and can see more clearly. When we see from a clean lens, we learn new lessons rather than repeat old blunders. We may learn how to refine our strength to be used for our benefit, how to harness our passion for something and channel it into a positive direction, we may see red flags earlier on, find a new angle solution to an old problem, gain understanding about a new topic.
We can develop a personal relationship with energy, God, a supreme being, our inner spirit. Devoting time and love to a divine connection will not be regretted. It becomes the template for the rest of our relationships, where we can find the divine in others, in our lives, in our responsibilities, our struggles. Conversely, we see ignoble and can choose how we wish to handle it, armed with an evolving sense of self that mirrors a higher frequency.