Thank you so much for this inspiring newsletter. We’re all in a process somehow….what I really love about your approach is your down-to-the ground attitude. No promises, no expectations, no life-ever-changing experience….just a try. Like an experiment. I’ve known all of these practises and still don’t practise them regularly. What if I tried. Just tried. So, this is my first day. My goal is 40 days….or at least a week or so. Let’s see. Everything I’ve ever read or heard from you resonates so much with me. Thank you so much.
awww yayyy!! this makes me so happy and excited for you!! i love experimenting, always have, because i always thing „how will i ever know if i don‘t try and if i don‘t like i can always change it!“. and especially with a meditation, just staying curious and open and in the end isn‘t that what makes us feel alive?! so please keep me posted how it‘ll go for you
Thank you for the reminder of this practice, dear Michi. I first learned it through you... was it 2 years ago? (Laura here – those two years certainly feel like a lifetime, but maybe you remember)... and at some point forgot about its existence. Glad you delivered it back to me. Just clicked play and started for as long as intuitively felt right, which turned out to be 5min. And through all of those five minutes I had a constant energetic shiver flowing through my body. I'll try to stick with it and see where it leads me to.
Hellloooo…keepin’up with my daily practice. 5 minutes breathing, 5 minutes HAR and a few minutes of stillness. To be honest: today my thoughts were “ what the heck am I doing here? ( especially while repeating HAR…)” . I also noticed some kind of expectation like “what can this daily practice do for me?” I notice that I’m expecting changes, benefits. Which I actually haven’t yet. And maybe there won’t even be changes. There isn’t maybe nothing to achieve except from appreciating my daily determination to keep on going. 🧡
It's a tricky business with these expectations (in general but especially with meditation). I think we all know the feeling that with most of what we do we want some kind of outcome, something to be reached and of course that happens with our meditation practice as well, we want to feel calmer, more at ease or whatever it is.
Yet, meditation is not about achieving something, it really is about being with what is.
Think about it this way maybe, the more we expect from our meditation, the less it can give you. The less we expect, the more is can transform you.
It's the element of surprise, the unexpected, because really it is the mind that wants to know "what will this do for me?" but then the mind has limited imagination, it can only refer to what it already knows. So if we can somehow drop the expectation and can allow ourselves to "just be with what is" there is openess for things to occur that we couldn't even think of. But yes, it is one of the hardest parts. Also, personally I don't think it is the "job of the meditation" to change something ;) it is my job to change. Meditation creates awareness but then I have to act on it...
Thank you so much for this inspiring newsletter. We’re all in a process somehow….what I really love about your approach is your down-to-the ground attitude. No promises, no expectations, no life-ever-changing experience….just a try. Like an experiment. I’ve known all of these practises and still don’t practise them regularly. What if I tried. Just tried. So, this is my first day. My goal is 40 days….or at least a week or so. Let’s see. Everything I’ve ever read or heard from you resonates so much with me. Thank you so much.
awww yayyy!! this makes me so happy and excited for you!! i love experimenting, always have, because i always thing „how will i ever know if i don‘t try and if i don‘t like i can always change it!“. and especially with a meditation, just staying curious and open and in the end isn‘t that what makes us feel alive?! so please keep me posted how it‘ll go for you
Thank you for the reminder of this practice, dear Michi. I first learned it through you... was it 2 years ago? (Laura here – those two years certainly feel like a lifetime, but maybe you remember)... and at some point forgot about its existence. Glad you delivered it back to me. Just clicked play and started for as long as intuitively felt right, which turned out to be 5min. And through all of those five minutes I had a constant energetic shiver flowing through my body. I'll try to stick with it and see where it leads me to.
It feels like an evergreen ;) always a good idea to come back to it. But I am also already excited for the April meditation ;)
Hellloooo…keepin’up with my daily practice. 5 minutes breathing, 5 minutes HAR and a few minutes of stillness. To be honest: today my thoughts were “ what the heck am I doing here? ( especially while repeating HAR…)” . I also noticed some kind of expectation like “what can this daily practice do for me?” I notice that I’m expecting changes, benefits. Which I actually haven’t yet. And maybe there won’t even be changes. There isn’t maybe nothing to achieve except from appreciating my daily determination to keep on going. 🧡
It's a tricky business with these expectations (in general but especially with meditation). I think we all know the feeling that with most of what we do we want some kind of outcome, something to be reached and of course that happens with our meditation practice as well, we want to feel calmer, more at ease or whatever it is.
Yet, meditation is not about achieving something, it really is about being with what is.
Think about it this way maybe, the more we expect from our meditation, the less it can give you. The less we expect, the more is can transform you.
It's the element of surprise, the unexpected, because really it is the mind that wants to know "what will this do for me?" but then the mind has limited imagination, it can only refer to what it already knows. So if we can somehow drop the expectation and can allow ourselves to "just be with what is" there is openess for things to occur that we couldn't even think of. But yes, it is one of the hardest parts. Also, personally I don't think it is the "job of the meditation" to change something ;) it is my job to change. Meditation creates awareness but then I have to act on it...
Just some thoughts ;)