Meditating Among Chaos
I have taken the last few months to really work on my meditation skills in the hopes that I would be able to clear my mind long enough to experience total silence. I took time off from social media and even stopped watching or reading the news for a while in order to clear out the head clutter. To say this has been a struggle is an understatement. I spent countless hours and days fighting off the thoughts that kept creeping up inside my head. Fighting off the outside noises like the kids running around, the dog barking and cars passing by until I finally threw in the towel. I kept thinking to myself, this is impossible and only people who live alone can achieve this total silence so many speak of. It wasn't until recently while going through my morning ritual of listening to Alan Watts that I realized I was going about it the wrong way. I had spent so much time trying to block out noises that I missed the whole point of meditating. I kept focusing on silence instead of focusing ...
