As our lives get busier and busier and more totally ridik every week, I’m trying to find new ways to balance out my mind, body and soul. We spend so much of our week working, catching up with friends, trying to exercise, rushing from here to there and by the weeks’ end we feel exhausted, tired and overwhelmed.
So I decided to attend a mediation class run by a Buddhism group close to my work. My friend invited me late last year to join her in a mediation session that is held in what looks like a townhouse in the back streets of Newtown.
I am still very beginner at this and learning every week new skills to calm me down and focus on what is in my mind. Usually people attend mediation classes under the impression that the act of mediation will calm your mind and leave it empty and still. After attending my first class, I came to the realisation that one of the ideals of mediation is that your mind will not become empty and still, but you actually focus on becoming ok with all the thought processes, feelings, emotions, deliberations and reflections that come into your mind at one time.
Its hard to explain….let me give you an example……5pm,….I am sitting at my desk thinking….. note to self-what will I cook for dinner, note to self- do I have food in the fridge, note to self- do I need to go to the shops, note to self- should I catch up with my sister for dinner, note to self- should I cook or get takeaway, note to self- I shouldn’t get takeaway because I ate out at lunch, note to self- I need to call mum, note to self- I need to get petrol….. and before I know it, I have no control of what I am letting into my mind…..
We don’t often realise how many different thoughts are going through our minds at one time and forget that we can actually cause anxiety attacks or similar from the way we can work ourselves up with what we have going on in our lives……
From my understating so far, mediation helps you acknowledge the thoughts that come into your mind and leave your mind without getting flustered or anxious about it…..
So if you’re feeling anxious, nervous, overwhelmed….come join in on a mediation class soon…..and you can too reap the benefits of having more control of your mind….
Classes are on every Monday & Thursday night at 8.30pm at Sydney Diamond Way Buddhist centre, 2 Linthorpe St.
Newtown. The centre is run and maintained through the idealism of friends who meditate together….
