Decisions, decisions….

It’s been a while since I was last in here, I need to get my act together. I really wanted to submit weekly…

Anyway, I am working on a lecture theme centered around “Decisions”. Decisions in meditation, decisions in life, society. One interesting point about meditation is those decisions in meditation that may seem mundane have interesting implications for the life of the individual concerned. For instance, how the meditation sound is repeated – easy, effortlessly or controlled, intense, or distant and removed – may also reflect our attitude to life. The control freak will probably also try to control the sound too much, thereby loosing free mental attitude needed to trigger the relaxation response. Working with letting go of the control may enable that individual to bring some more freedom from control into his or her own life.

Similarly, for the person with to little control in life this may manifest itself with a removed, distant way of repeating the sound that can trigger the need to look at how one is meditating. By slowly and gradually bringing the sound more into focus of attention this can also change patterns in life.