Anna, thank you for thoughtfully articulating the power of meditation. I love to read your writing. Meditation has become an indispensable revitalizing exercise for me so this post was inspiring.
I reflected on my own eclectic practice and the sundry of methods I employ to garner the “focused attention, open awareness, or self-transcending”.
I like thinking of those as three interactive theaters that share a curtain to one stage. That one stage is your mind or your energetic field.
I find a routine meditating practice with varied techniques helps me to continually progress and create new tools in each of those theaters to “open the curtain” and clear my energy field of unnecessary debris. Keeping the techniques fluid is key for me. Since the debris is varied, it requires various clearing techniques.
Hold on…Still more thoughts...
This particular thought resonated with me.. “None of this absolves the eddies of being human. What it changes is the quality of your passage through them”.
Humans innately accumulate debris in their energy field. Meditation helps me to clear the field by removing negativity, halting ruminations, making more space for love and compassion for both ourselves and others, and ultimately returning me to my authentic self. I must have been a veritable somnambulist before understanding the power of meditation.
The three theaters sharing a curtain— what a generous image. It captures something I was circling but didn't quite land: that the techniques aren't separate practices so much as different angles to enter the same room.
And yes— the debris. Gracious, do we accumulate. The post touches on what the mind generates when left untended, but the energy field carries its own sediment. Another reminder of the benefits of variety: different knots require different hands. It's the same logic as movement— where using a range of approaches yields more lasting openings, more comprehensive resilience, than any single method can. The debris doesn't come in one form, and neither can the clearing.
Somnambulist is a new word for me, and I am delighted over this discovery.
Anna, thank you for thoughtfully articulating the power of meditation. I love to read your writing. Meditation has become an indispensable revitalizing exercise for me so this post was inspiring.
I reflected on my own eclectic practice and the sundry of methods I employ to garner the “focused attention, open awareness, or self-transcending”.
I like thinking of those as three interactive theaters that share a curtain to one stage. That one stage is your mind or your energetic field.
I find a routine meditating practice with varied techniques helps me to continually progress and create new tools in each of those theaters to “open the curtain” and clear my energy field of unnecessary debris. Keeping the techniques fluid is key for me. Since the debris is varied, it requires various clearing techniques.
Hold on…Still more thoughts...
This particular thought resonated with me.. “None of this absolves the eddies of being human. What it changes is the quality of your passage through them”.
Humans innately accumulate debris in their energy field. Meditation helps me to clear the field by removing negativity, halting ruminations, making more space for love and compassion for both ourselves and others, and ultimately returning me to my authentic self. I must have been a veritable somnambulist before understanding the power of meditation.
The three theaters sharing a curtain— what a generous image. It captures something I was circling but didn't quite land: that the techniques aren't separate practices so much as different angles to enter the same room.
And yes— the debris. Gracious, do we accumulate. The post touches on what the mind generates when left untended, but the energy field carries its own sediment. Another reminder of the benefits of variety: different knots require different hands. It's the same logic as movement— where using a range of approaches yields more lasting openings, more comprehensive resilience, than any single method can. The debris doesn't come in one form, and neither can the clearing.
Somnambulist is a new word for me, and I am delighted over this discovery.