In this video, Olivia Rosewood teaches how to meditate to be your best self. She instructs us on how to use mindfulness meditation to watch our thoughts.
She teaches us to watch our thoughts, observe them, and let them go – like clouds drifting across the sky. We are not to get involved with our thoughts during meditation.
Olivia is an author, yoga and meditation teacher, and a mom. She writes for the Huffington Post and has traveled extensively with Eckhart Tolle.
In an article in the Huffington Post titled, “Please Meditate: It’s Good for You,” she wrote
The practice of meditation is very simple: one must only quiet the mind without falling asleep. What’s so hard about that? It doesn’t seem complicated. In theory, it is easy, but in application, most people have difficulty quieting the mind. The well-known teacher Eckhart Tolle describes modern civilization as being made up of “compulsive thinkers.” We can’t seem to stop thinking even when we want to. Many resort to sleeping pills to stop the thinking because they’re exhausted and need sleep but can’t quiet the incessant chatter that haunts their tired brains. Could quieting the mind be so easy that it’s difficult?
“Why would I want to quiet my mind?” You might wonder. “Thought is everything to me. The more I think, the smarter I become, and intelligence leads to happiness and fulfillment.” This is true if you are using your mind. But what if your mind is using you? Quieting it in a meditation practice won’t make you less intelligent. On the contrary, it will help you to access, use and enjoy your intelligence. [Read More…]
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