Begin again
Something that was very vital on my meditation journey, was when a teacher told me that the process/practice of meditation is about learning to be OK with beginning again.
In meditation, again and again and again and again and again we have to come back to our breath. That’s the whole practice is learning how to gently redirect your mind back into your body using your breath. Sometimes we use visualizations for this other times it’s simply just focused breath meditation.
This principle can be applied to so many different aspects of life. When we stumble a little bit, because it will happen, we have to pick ourselves up again. When we make a mistake, because it will happen, we try again. We meet ourselves where we are at again and again through our self work and through our practice of sitting still. Again and again.
Our practice trains us that the most natural thing for humans to do, is to pick ourselves up and to try again.
So if you have fallen down a little bit, my friend, meet yourself where you are at, and pick yourself up again.
