THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO
BECOMING LOVE

Meditation is practice.

 

What are you practicing?

 

Taming your mind.

 

Meditation is the practice of taming your mind.

 

Meditation was developed in India by a line of spiritual practitioners from the Hindu faith called yogis. Through meditation, yogis claim to be able to levitate, to pause the heart, and even to appear in two places at once. Is this true? Honestly, it doesn't matter. Not wanting to sit-down meditate because yogis claim to do fantastical stuff would be like saying: “I won’t use spoons because somebody out there is bending spoons with their mind.” That’s great for them, but soup is hard to eat with a fork. Unless you're a yogi, levitating, pausing the heart, or exploring the deepest depths of your consciousness are not the goals you're after when you meditate. Let’s call this The Spiritual End of the meditation spectrum.

 

Then there’s The Western Wellness End of the meditation spectrum. This side of the spectrum has yoga pants, meditation cushions, guided meditation apps and magazine covers with a serene woman on a beach in the lotus position. This end of the spectrum went too far the other way. They took a legitimate practice and watered it down into a lifestyle brand.

 

A lot of the time these Wellnessers aren’t even meditating. They’re relaxing.

 

You might be objecting: “How come it’s only meditation when you say it’s meditation? Wouldn’t the yogis say you’re not meditating?” And that’s a great point. So the only fair stance to take is, you can say meditation is whatever you want it to be. You can say it to mean that thing you do to levitate, and you can say it to mean that thing you do to relax after a stressful day. Go ahead, call anything a meditation.

 

But, if you want to use meditation to stop suffering, feel joyful, and help humanity live in peace, then you don't want to meditate in the extremes of the meditation spectrum; you want to meditate in The Become Love Middle. We want to use this ancient technique like an athlete views practice.

 

What are you practicing?

 

Taming your mind.

 

Meditation is the practice of taming your mind.

 

What is taming your mind?

 

Learning to be in control of your thoughts and actions.