Meditation for September 19th, 2016
Sometimes I’m Too Sad To Meditate
I could try to stare out the window and count my breaths. I could close my eyes and imagine myself walking down a white sand beach and listen to the water lap at the shore with birds crying in the distance. I could put on some sitar music and try to imagine myself go up and down the rajas, but I can’t.
I’m too sad.
Sometimes we are too sad and a thing of “clearing” your mind is just impossible.
Sadness can be grief, hurt or just that melancholy bitterness of being alive during a moment when being alive isn’t all that much fun.
It seems that meditation is one of those tools where it should be used in time of sadness, but when I sit down to quiet the soul all I can see the point of my sadness. It makes my breath shallow, the bottom of my stomach give out, and watching all the negative outcomes in my mind.
So when I am sad I need to not Meditate. I need to distract myself for awhile until I have the strength to walk through the pain that sadness gives us.
I lose something everyday.
Truth xo. Sadness can be like a tsunami, drowning the tangibles and known footholds. Just sitting and waiting for the flood to wash the sorrow away can be exhausting. You can’t find inspiration when drowning. But there you remain once it passes, washed clean! A new void just waiting for a bolt of inspiring bright light. Thank you, as usual, for feeding truth and sharing reality as you feel it to be. It really helps, and I am appreciative.