This is Day Eleven in the 30 Days of Reinvention Video Series [#30DaysReinvention].
Build a meditation practice and align your body and mind.
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Hey it’s Rand,
Our monkey minds constantly barrage us with negative chatter:
“I’m not good enough”
“She will let me down”
“Who is this guy?”
But by asking yourself, “What do I need to prove?”
And by realising that there is nothing to prove to your inner self, to your observer, you significantly reduce that internal dialogue, that monkey mind chatter and you will begin to convert the negativity into positive, connective, universal thoughts that transcend the need to prove yourself to others and to society at large.
So much of our time is taken up with distracting thoughts that leave us in a fractured state of mind. Off-task thinking and mind wandering both increase that mindless chatter.
So what can we do to keep ourselves on task and aligned?
The answer is Meditation. It is fantastic for bringing your mind back into focus.
Think of meditation as the practice of aligning mind and body. It is less about switching off all your thinking and more about relaxing with your thoughts: acknowledging them without judgement and letting them pass through you without trying to hold onto them.
Your to-do list will still be there when you finish meditating, but during your meditation practice you need to be fiercely gentle with yourself, noticing thoughts and feelings but not acting on them.
In meditation you will acknowledge a thought and then let it pass through your mind, comfortable that it is something you can take care of after you finish your session.
Shifting from your everyday dream-like wandering to a more focused state, you substitute the chatter of your discursive mind with another, more calming object of attention. This could be your breath, or it could be a chanted mantra.
A meditation practice allows you to see the gap that exists between your everyday narrative, your story, and what manifests once you quiet down all the chatter and achieve relative stillness.