Everyone talks about meditation and the benefits of mindfulness.  What exactly is this and is it really that complex?  For me it’s been a time to reflect on yourself and be alone in the now.  What does that mean? Complete solitude.  What’s it like to be alone? Have you ever been alone? Can you be alone?

I first experience loneliness when I first moved out to London.  You would think that being amongst millions of people that it’s hard to be alone.  However, it’s not about being at work or being at a cafe or spending time in the museum.  It’s when you go home and it’s just you.

Are you comfortable? Are you at peace?

Some fill the void with music.  Some have the tv in the background.  Some talk on the phone with friends until they go to bed.  But it’s until you are truly alone and at peace that I believe you have reached a mindful state.  

Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were to not physically be here tomorrow? Almost to a point that it freaks you out?! Well there’s no point to be scared of death. We all go at some point.  It just a matter of when where and how.  But why worry? Be in the now. 

I’m a Catholic and always believed that as a Christian we need hope.  And God, Jesus gives us that hope! But I do question the faith.  Not that I’m not a believer.  But it’s one way of reaching this state of mindfulness.  Praying is meditation. It’s just not framed as the meditation we know well today.  Praying the Rosary is meditation.

We are all doing it.  It’s just a matter of how we frame it.  

So my challenge to you is to meditate and really go for it!

Namaste!