Meditation: Let Meditation Help You Mange Your Self by Amr Amna

Author:Amr Amna [Amna, Amr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-21T18:30:00+00:00

Action step

This section has illustrated everything you need to know about meditating for improved self-awareness and self-mastery. Be deliberate about practice of the mindful attention practice outlined here and you will undoubtedly develop a profound level of self-awareness that will help you become more deliberate in all areas of your life.

In closing this section, as a matter of importance, you should note that mindful self-awareness and attention are not a default or natural state of mind or being. Our minds have a natural tendency to jump from one branch of thought to the next—in meditation discussions, we call this the “monkey mind.”

To use meditation as a self-awareness and self-regulation tool, the most important thing you need to do is practice conscious awareness and meditation consistently until both become habitual. Because attentive awareness is not a natural state of being, in the initial stages of the practice, expect the mind to wander off severally. Let it; this is natural.

During all forms of meditation, your one and only task—and this is for lack of a better word—is to remain consciously aware of what you have chosen to become aware or attentive of in the present moment, and when the mind wanders off from this, to [gently and nonjudgmentally] refocus it. At first, the difference in time between the mind wandering off and the moment you notice that it has wandered off will be significant. As you stick with the practice, however, the period shall shorten, and you shall start developing the ability to practice nonjudgmental awareness for prolonged periods and in various areas of your life. At this point, deliberate mindfulness or self-direction in important areas of your life shall become almost natural.

In the next section, we shall take everything we have discussed here and turn it into an actionable meditative practice you can use to develop deeper self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-regulation, and to attain self-actualization.

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