How do you meditate spiritually?
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To meditate spiritually, the first thing is to know that the most spiritual thing that we have is our breath. That's actually all that we are: inhale and exhale. It’s also something that shows up in all the ancient traditions—the God's breath, the source's breath, the breath and spirit being the same word in many languages. So first, keep in mind that as long as you breathe, you are meditating spiritually.
If you want to take that deeper, you can use meditation to actually find your breath. Rather than trying to silence your mind or sit completely still or sit completely upright or breathe deeply, just let yourself breathe and practice finding that very delicate attachment where you are breathing involuntarily, but you are also allowing yourself to become conscious and aware of exactly how your breathing is going and where it stops, when it feels like it needs to come out and when it feels like it needs to go back in. And then, try little by little to push it a little bit deeper than it wants to go so that you start having a co-creative process between you and your breath. You’re essentially acknowledging your breath and its role in bringing you to be here. That's one way to meditate.
Also, remember that meditating is not about silencing the mind, which is a big misconception in a lot of spiritual circles. You are not supposed to silence your mind. Your mind is not supposed to be silent. Your mind will be silent when you're dead. You are alive. The idea is to be able to sit with the mind and watch it have thoughts without having to get embroiled and caught up in every single thought and become attached to every single thought. You can try deepening the breath or alternatively, imagining or thinking of the mind as a spot in the forest, like you’re watching a stream go by but you're not jumping into the stream. The stream is just all of the thoughts that you're having and you're listening to but they're just going by. You do not jump in the river. You just watch it go by and breathe and that's it. That's all you need. Five minutes in the morning of this and that's more than enough.
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If you want to take that deeper, you can use meditation to actually find your breath. Rather than trying to silence your mind or sit completely still or sit completely upright or breathe deeply, just let yourself breathe and practice finding that very delicate attachment where you are breathing involuntarily, but you are also allowing yourself to become conscious and aware of exactly how your breathing is going and where it stops, when it feels like it needs to come out and when it feels like it needs to go back in. And then, try little by little to push it a little bit deeper than it wants to go so that you start having a co-creative process between you and your breath. You’re essentially acknowledging your breath and its role in bringing you to be here. That's one way to meditate.
Also, remember that meditating is not about silencing the mind, which is a big misconception in a lot of spiritual circles. You are not supposed to silence your mind. Your mind is not supposed to be silent. Your mind will be silent when you're dead. You are alive. The idea is to be able to sit with the mind and watch it have thoughts without having to get embroiled and caught up in every single thought and become attached to every single thought. You can try deepening the breath or alternatively, imagining or thinking of the mind as a spot in the forest, like you’re watching a stream go by but you're not jumping into the stream. The stream is just all of the thoughts that you're having and you're listening to but they're just going by. You do not jump in the river. You just watch it go by and breathe and that's it. That's all you need. Five minutes in the morning of this and that's more than enough.
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