What is it? Has it become time in front of the TV? I'm not sure how to do it in my day to day life. Somebody once told me that many of the top executives take 10 minutes everyday and clear their heads, and think about nothing. How do you think about nothing? I've tried in earnest, but when I close my eyes and try to remove all thoughts, it seems like a tidal wave of thoughts come flowing in. How can I turn them off.
There's a level of focus I can't seem to attain. I'd love to try to master meditating. I think it would help in my spiritual life. When I try to pray, a lot of times, I find my mind starts wandering. My prayers seem like they don't go any higher than the ceiling, and I get discouraged, wondering what's the point because I'm sure my feeble attempts aren't worthy of being heard. Even at church, as I try to follow the preacher, I've lost the focus to understand things like grace, and faith, and what it means for me.
Is prayer a Christian version of meditation? Anybody have any tips on how to find my center and clear my head of all the noise?
Every year, I make the same resolution: live more consciously and be more aware. The problem is that I've never formulated the "how" part, so I decided recently to incorporate meditation into every day.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right. It is hard! Just when I get quiet (usually when the baby is asleep), my mental to-do list pops up. As soon as I shut that down, I start worrying about things I can't control.
So far, I've made it a sum total of two minutes without another thought encroaching on my quiet time. Two whole minutes.
Two minutes is actually pretty impressive.
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