I love meditation. I would find myself experiencing presence. I would connect, feel, and lose all sense of time in simply being.

After starting at the age of fourteen, I realized how powerful this practice was. Diving into that space, I felt was crucial because I got to leave behind my identity. Rather than running with my thoughts, I was able to observe and find peace.

I would experience a sense of joy, peace, and love.

Years later, I found myself asking: “Why can’t I bring that same joy, peace, and love into each moment of my life?”

So, instead of just simply making meditation a practice, or in other words a tool, I observed who I was being the moments after I rose from my cushion.

One of the biggest breakthroughs in my life came to me through doing this.

I was then able to observe all the things I was doing in my life that took me out of the presence.

Doing things I actually didn’t feel to do. Living a life out of need and fear. How did this look?

Anywhere in my life where I wasn’t doing what was true for me, I would struggle with myself in my mind and judge my experience. My ego was in control. My power was outside me. I had given power to external things because I thought they would bring me that same peace and space I felt in my meditation. I was therefore controlled by these things.

The externals included: my job, relationships, food, financial security, and health etc

So, without going off on a tangent here and going into great depth, I basically decided to do only what felt true in my life.

I then found myself experiencing presence in my life. Why? Because I was being true to myself. Ironically, I didn’t need to meditate.

Meditation, then, no longer became a tool to find presence. I was able to live in presence. I found myself meditating only when I needed to reclaim power from my story.

So, next time you finish your meditation, why don’t you observe the things that then take you out of that beautiful space you feel when you open your eyes? Let me know what you observe by sharing in the space below.

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Tags: acceptance, being, ego, Empowerment, INSPIRATION, limitlessliving, meditation, presence, SPIRITUAL

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