I know what I need, I know what you need
Let's just meditate
Everyone is living in their own experience
There is no definitive way to see the whole story of who a person is, not according to them or to the many people who make up their experiences.
But our minds fill in the blank.
Our minds create identities of people including ourselves that we then attach ourselves to.
Any deviation from the picture that we paint in our heads can be seen as an uprooting of ourselves (but we have a hard time recognizing that).
If you are not who I intend you to be 😅🤣 then what does that say about me and our planned interactions and joint experiences.
Dicey..
The mind wants to tell us a story but if you are truly present you can realize that the mind is noisy with predictions and expectations for life and people to stay in the bounds of our preferences.
But life is an energy, it is a changing flow.
And it never goes “according to plan”.
Who is even planning this 😅…
Writing the story is where we get in trouble, we’re not super great at it and we have a negativity bias that we have to account for.
The truth is that we don’t have any real way to know how anything or anyone is going to turn out, the more we try to predict - the less accurate we get.
We just have to see- we have to experience and notice what is arising right now and not get distracted with all of the stories and noise.
Are we here, right now?
If it feels bad, notice that. The trick is to not get lost in what you are feeling and then to move from a feeling perspective to a noticing perspective.
When we notice what is there we are giving ourselves the opportunity to not be attached to whatever is transpiring, because in gaining awareness, it’s impossible not to see and feel the ever changing nature of life.
It’s not EASY and even with meditation I still struggle with it 😅😭🤣🤷♀️.
Tis’ life.
But with meditation I can see when I’m running a narrative, I can see how my body reacts to people, places and situations. These are important data points that without meditation you are simply leaving on the table.
It seems much easier to be on autopilot but in reality autopilot comes at the cost of our lives and our relationships. Running on autopilot is how people get to the end of their lives- confused on how they got there.
But if we add in some awareness, a little more consciousness to our every day-every moment then we don’t question how we got to the end, we savored every moment by being in the present.
To quote Kanye(just the first part) “My presence is a present…”
Presence = awareness
It is the best gift you can give to anyone, including yourself.
And one way to build that is meditation.
Life is short - make sure you realize that 😅 and soak up what you can.
🥰😘