Aug
30
A Favorite Meditation
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I stumbled on a blog post about Steve Pavlina’s favorite meditation. Meditation, or guided relaxation is a good habit for relieving stress sure, but it can also be used to prepare for successful outcomes. The thing I like about Steve’s meditation is you are picturing yourself 5 and 10 years out and how you will be then. It seems a perfect opportunity to visualize some great outcomes for the coming years.
Link: My Favorite Meditation.
Here’s a simple but powerful meditation exercise you may enjoy. Teaching you the basics of meditation is beyond the scope of this blog entry (maybe someone can post a comment with a link to a meditation primer for those who’ve never done it), but if you’re already familiar with it, I think you’ll find this one interesting and valuable.
I didn’t learn this particular meditation from anyone else — it’s just something I made up at one point and have been doing for around 10 years now.
First I get myself totally relaxed and into a peaceful state. Then I imagine a special room in my mind which has two chairs facing each other. I sit in one chair, and in the chair opposite me, I visualize my future self five years from now. He appears as the ideal “me” I’m striving to become. He’s physically fit, strong, brave, confident, driven, passionate, enthusiastic, etc. We have a conversation for 5-10 minutes where I ask him questions, and he willingly answers them. He usually looks at me almost with a sense of nostalgia and compassion, since he knows where I am right now as well as the challenges I’m dealing with, challenges he’s long since overcome.
Eventually my future self leaves. Then I get up and take his seat, and my past self from five years ago enters the room and takes the first seat. So now I’m the future self (Steve 2005) looking back on my past self (Steve 2000). I take a moment to remember what my life was like exactly five years ago, so I can recall what that past Steve is experiencing. ÈƓԈ쳄æŸ
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