5am Meditation Day 40- Simply Being

The Pleasure of Simply Being

"Whenever you try to exert control over the natural ebb and flow of life, you end up either frustrated or disappointed- because it can't be controlled. Whenever you apply effort to trying to relax and slow down, you produce the opposite effect. Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit- the pleasure of simply being."

Paul Wilson The Quiet

Wherever You Go There You Are

How often each day would you have to say I don't want to be where I am? What does it feel like when you don't want to be where you are- the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, and the people you are with?

It has been said: wherever you go there you are. In other words you are always here. Why is it so hard to accept that?

Surrender is surrender to this moment not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

http://www.learning-modern-meditation.com/meditation-quotes.html

5am Meditation Day 2- Better Late than Never

5am??? Not so much. Try 9pm. As guilty as I felt at 5am when I turned my alarm off, I have forgiven myself already. Even though it wasn't at 5am as I had hoped it would be, at least I meditated today. Better late than never. My goal was to meditate at 5am everyday, and I think the most important part of that goal is the meditation part, not the 5am part.

We all have to learn how to forgive ourselves, and how to find a balance in life. While I had all intentions of waking at 5am for 90 days straight, sometimes we get sick, and sometimes we stay up late, and sometimes we stay up until 1am doing homework AND get a stomach bug, as was my case yesterday. We can't help these things, so we have to learn how to have balance and take care of ourselves. I set my alarm for 5am just in case, but I had a feeling it wouldn't happen. And I'm OK with it. I knew that my sleep was more important today and that I would fit my meditation in eventually.

I am learning two things- how to simplify and how to let go. There are some things in life that we just can't control, and we have to learn to be OK with that. I often find myself with a plan that has a hiccup, and I am trying to learn how to let go of my plan, accept that it is what it is, and be able to move on instead of holding on to what I thought it would be. Today was a step in the right direction. It was what it was, and I am OK with it. But I'm still planning on waking up at 5am for the next 88 days :)