A short time ago I added meditating to my daily routine. I did this with an eye on exercising all four elements of my being: soul, heart, mind, and body. I have come to the conclusion that exercising one without exercising all is not exercise at all.
I have spoken in the past with devotees of physical exercise, i.e. bodybuilders, who talk of a 'rush' as they work out that uplifts the spirit. How they get tense and irritable if they miss a workout. The pervasive benefits to them are deducible but wouldn't it be more beneficial if their routines targeted mental, emotional, and spiritual elements as well as muscles?
Meditation is exercise for the soul. By tracing ourselves back from body through mind and heart to the core of our lives, the soul, we can ensure that our activities are steered by what we deem spiritually important. Today's target for me was focus. Unraveling the confusions and the noise to allow me to connect with what is priority and what is secondary. From the soul up. What I believe to be most important in my life. How I feel about how the priority is attended to. What I can plan on accomplishing today and then actually doing it.
I have realized that meditation need not include Tantra, chanting, or incense. It doesn't have to be done as the sun rises. You don't have to visit a guru in a mountaintop cave. Nor do you need to fast for forty days while walking through the desert. Only include these elements if they are important to you. But do set aside some uninterrupted time to just filter out the everyday events and pull your attention back to what is the single, seminal, most important concept that applies to everything you do. Consider clearly how you identify it and how well you abide by it. Dedicate yourself to applying it to the single next action you take. Then build from there.
It is one thing to concentrate on our souls one day a week. But if you can connect with it on a ongoing basis, multiple times a day, then how can you ever live anything but a moral life. Unless you are at the core immoral yourself.
About Me
- Dromkeen
- I'm Rich Harwood,an author who writes in multiple genres. My first book 'A Community of Excellence', available online at Amazon, describes my upbringing in Flatbush Brooklyn where I learned about excellence. A clearer explanation of my belief in community is explained on this site with the series of "Excellence as Morality" posts in the archive. My first novel, "The Red Warrior" is currently available in most retail outlets via Open Door Publishing.
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