How much more can we take? The rapidly changing economic situation, growing anxieties and fears are all starting to take their toll on each and everyone of us.
Stress, anxiety, fear and worry are all mental states if left unchecked will lead to changes in our body chemistry and sooner or later to physical illnesses. However, because stress is a mental activity we all know that we can change our thoughts and therefore our mental states.
What is our mind? Well, it can be seen or witnessed as our thoughts. Mind means our thoughts, yet you may not have realised that there is “someone” to whom these thoughts are occurring to!
Thoughts are all related, one thought will lead to another and another, until the thoughts are coming fast leaving us unable to deal with our unruly minds. Just as thoughts can create an emotion, happiness or suffering, it also reasonable to assume that we can stop or at least interrupt our thoughts.
You are probably thinking, if its so easy, why does my stress not go away when I think about something nice? There are two main reasons, firstly, the more you practice something the better you get, the same is true for our thoughts, if we spend more time entertaining negative emotional thoughts, the better we become at feeling worried or depressed. Secondly, meditation is NOT about replacing worry thoughts with non-worrying “nice” thoughts, but more about recognising that the habit of our mind is to think, and we are NOT our minds or thoughts. Meditation helps interrupt and then stop our habitual thoughts and give you the power to choose the type of thoughts you wish to have!
The effect of meditation is provide clarity to our self of our minds and we can then make decisions or take actions to address anything that may be on our minds.
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Meditation (by Dav Panesar)
Symran (by Dav Panesar)
Victim to Creator
Victim to creator (by Dav Panesar)
