Just dance in mediation and life, I tell my students. Each week at least one of my students or clients makes a remark about wanting to do meditation “right.” The untrained mind continually attempts to place our efforts into dichotomous categories of pleasant/unpleasant, good/bad and right/wrong. In the beginning, they look at me with disbelief when I respond that there is no right or wrong with meditation.
Don’t look at your feet to see if you’re doing it right. Just dance. –Anne Lamott
What if, just for today, we all attempt to be aware of the mind’s habitual pattern of judging and categorizing our experience, and when we notice this pattern, we attempt to approach whatever is here in this moment with nonjudgmental awareness and kindness.
What would it be like to just dance in meditation and life? To just allow our present moment experience to unfold, one moment at a time, meeting it with acceptance and kindness?
When we learn to allow things to be as they are rather than trying to force things to be otherwise, we are able to live with greater peace, happiness, and resilience. We feel more at ease and enjoy a greater sense of freedom.
Warmly,
Jen
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One reply on “Just Dance in Meditation and Life”
I have trouble trying to “do it right” every morning. Thanks for the reminder.
Bill