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Meditation:
Tapping into your source of Love
By Sukala Boyd
Isn’t it true that when women reach 45 or 50, we want to know the deeper purpose of our life? In my former career as a medical counselor, I saw many people die not knowing their life’s purpose.
What stops us from knowing our highest life purpose? It has a lot to do with how we treat ourselves. For instance, have you ever said something you later regretted? Who hasn’t, right? When you think about it more deeply, the challenge isn’t what was said. It’s our inner critic that causes the trouble. You know - that little inner voice that exists to drive a sane, wonderful, contributing woman crazy.
Interestingly, it’s a loving heart that feels misgiving. That makes sense, doesn’t it? An insensitive heart doesn’t notice when it has caused someone embarrassment, offense or pain. When we become aware we’ve created an atmospheric disturbance, we really ought to congratulate ourselves, give ourselves an affectionate pat on the back, and thank ourselves for noticing!
In reality, our typical response is quite different. Don’t we spend too much time feeling guilty? Honestly, when has guilt ever helped? Guilt slows the process of self-growth and change. It’s far more enlightened to say, “Where did that come from?” And, “What could I have done differently?”
My friends and I who meditate discuss this topic a lot. It ties in closely with meditation. It’s these learned patterns we all carry inside that cause these little life situations to creep up when we’re not looking. It’s therapeutic to laugh about what we’ve done.
So what can we do? Like putting on a luxurious body lotion, we can apply the light of understanding. That light is fueled by meditation.
You
can think of meditation as tapping into your source of light and love. The
light illumines the pathway to growth and change. Meditation sensitizes
us to what is kind and loving and what is unnecessary and can be dropped.
The “dropping” doesn’t occur overnight. Much as we’d like it to be instantaneous,
change takes time. The exciting news is this process develops our virtues
– patience, humility, compassion and appreciation for all types of people
in the world.Ultimately, meditation wears away the “inner enemies” of judgment, criticism and blame, and along with that, the guilt our well-meaning parents taught us. Through the process of laughing at ourselves, forgiving ourselves and fully owning our humanity, we get to know, accept and love ourselves deeply.
We search for happiness in countless ways. Having a variety of solutions, including short meditations, makes our pathway more joyful and easeful. When you get to know yourself intimately, you come to realize enlightenment is the state of living in love and unity while performing daily tasks, and it is do-able.
Sukala Boyd, Director of Meditation Escape, provides guided meditation and relaxation techniques for women. She is offering a complimentary meditation evening September 18, 2006. For more information visit her website
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