LHF : Meditation

You can’t do meditation wrong. When I stopped trying it started working. If it feels like work, then it’s not really working. I heard the Danish musician Kasper Winding on a podcast saying that he felt he had been doing meditation wrong for 20 years(!), basically he just been doing more thinking upon thinking, rather than meditating. I found that pretty hilarious, because it hit me on a personal level. We are so used to achieving and performing, and meditation is the exact opposite of that;

But meditation is not about feeling in a certain way. It is about noticing what you feel. Meditation is not about taming the mind or making it quiet, although silence is actually deepened through meditation and can be cultivated systematically. Meditation is first and foremost about letting the mind be as it is, and knowing something about how it is right now. It is not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are. If you do not understand this, then you are constitutionally incapable of meditating. But it is just more thoughts, and in this case, it is thoughts that are completely wrong.

Just sit down, close your eyes, focus on your breath, let the thoughts come and go. Sit for as long as you feel comfortable doing it. Maybe it’s only two minutes, maybe it’s 30 minutes, just see what happens. Don’t force it.

That’s it!

(but if you want, there’s more..)

Of course there is a lifetime of practice and philosophy and spiritual development you can add. Of course.

David Lynch was always raving about the amazing benefits of Transcendental Meditation. BUT not a fan of the setup where one have to do a special course to join.

I have practiced Kundalini Yoga which has meditation, chanting and breathwork as part of the practice. It was good, BUT not a fan of the quasi-religious huckster-ish back story of Kundalini.

I am convinced that walking meditation aka just taking a walk and paying attention to yourself and the surroundings has a lot to offer.