Rewards of Meditation

I am starting to publish these articles because I promised myself I would stay creative and start offering some value to those around me.?LinkedIn is a professional network, my profession is HR. These articles are going to be around the idea that the right mindset and heart space help us interact with people (work, home) doesn’t matter the place. This article may have zero value to you, but maybe somebody you know can get some value out of it.?feel free to connect, ask questions, comment, or share.?The theme with these articles will be a daily reflection or maybe better stated, a daily intention.

Rewards of Meditation:

Who cares?

Hear me out, there is some value here.

You can't say it happened because I was a crusader on a mission to find Nirvana. In my early 20’s I started to seek something greater than myself when I sobered up in July of 2005 (17 years ago).?Mostly because I didn't have the answers, life is hard, and maybe God has the answers.

What I found when I started to seek answers was the practice of meditation. I was taught that prayer is asking, and meditation is listening.

Meditation does two main things for me.?So if you haven't tried it because it seems like hocus pocus, I understand your point of view. ?However, I will present a simple case, that may serve as a reason for you to give it a shot.

I live in my head, my thoughts are constantly running on autopilot. Without the ability to sit and stop and contemplate what is going on in that hamster wheel, those thoughts will run me all day. When that's the case, I'm at the complete whim of whatever crappy song is stuck in my head, weird thought I had from the previous day, or some strange mood that I have no idea where it came from. Meditation puts me in the Birds Eye view. It allows me to watch this craziness going on. That gives me a much better shot at managing the utter chaos.

Benefit #2, I get a little filter in between me and the world. Without slowing down in the morning and taking the time to meditate, I have no buffer between me and whatever conversation or situation presents itself during the day. For some reason when I take the time to meditate in the morning I have an extra split second, almost like a little filter to be able to process what's going on before I react. That split second has saved me Jobs, relationships, investments and turned some pretty dicey situations into opportunities.?Simply because I had the patience to pause before I reacted.

My meditation is very simple, sit in a chair, fold my hands on my lap, sit up straight, breathe easy, and begin to watch what's going on in my head.?Keep it simple.?

Thanks for taking the time to read, hope there was one thing you could take away and use.