Yeah, Im still meditating. Since I started meditating about a year ago I have been meditating every day for at least an hour with a few exceptions generally when I travel. When I am agitated or have very important decisions to make I meditate up to two or three hours a day. I use ZenFriend to track the meditation time and Im at about 200 hours total since I started using it (so Im probably more like 300 total) and Im eager to reach 1,000 meditation hours. Meditation has become as important for my brain as taking a shower is important daily for my body. Its my daily cleanse. I try to wake up and go straight into one hour meditation in the morning without checking any email or anything distracting. It helps me understand what matters and what doesnt in the previous 24 hours. I observe my thoughts and see what comes to my mind naturally. I observe persistant thoughts that I have troubles to get rid of when I dont like them and also beautiful feelings that come very often. Im learning to control my mind, slowly, one day at a time. Persistant thoughts are the most difficult to manage as they invade your mind, you cant get rid of them. It can be something that really bothered you that just happened, something that makes you deeply sad, an important decision to take or that you already took. Im aware of that invasion and the fact that my mind starts focusing almost exclusively on that, sometimes all day, observe it and try to calm my mind down. Its starting to work. I have been amazed how much I have failed at controlling my own emotions since I started meditating, but Im getting better at it. It also helps me prepare my upcoming day, again what will matter and what wont. Who should I talk to. What I should spend my time on and what I should avoid. What I want accomplished. Today and long term. I also take a very broad point of view and try to see all those tasks and thoughts in the context of a lifetime, you see them in a totally different way if you do that. Things that matter today and invade your mind suddenly feel irrelevant. Meditation has become one of the most important activity and it changed me. I am slowly rewriting my minds operating system. cc Joichi Ito
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:37:59 +0000
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