Why Meditate

Meditation can be the breath of life you are looking for. If you’re worried, frustrated, in a hurry, depressed, angry or sad, this means you need to meditate more.

I spent many years in my forties feeling like my life had more meaning and purpose. As much as I helped people, put on spiritual events, researched and learnt new skills. I still felt there was something more to my life. My cry to the universe was; “What happened to my exciting life? I am bored beyond belief!”

I lived in the most beautiful place on earth an hour out of the city and I loved my surroundings and the beauty of nature. But I felt like I was treading water for many years, waiting for some shift to happen so I could do my work in the world in more powerful ways.

Life brought me back into the city at the end of my forties, where I was to discover so much had changed while I was living in paradise. There were so many movements happening in the new age arena with incredible events and conscious parties, music, people and gatherings. I dove straight in! It was delicious and I found so many wonderful people speaking my language in a more comprehensive way than ever before.

Now my life is a frantic adventure, filled with people to meet and to talk with. Events to organise, new movies to see, music to discover, and people stories and healing techniques to share. Not to mention the books, blogs and articles I write and put out, seminars & webinars we do, teachers to meet and interview, and new ways of learning how to handle this technical age.

The younger generation have really stepped it up since I was in this scene in my thirties. I think I was waiting for them to grow up and find their passion and their niche so I could benefit from their brilliance, creativity, new perspective and help them touch more people.

WOW can this all get completely overwhelming. My cry to the universe today is now; “HELP ! I need help with all that I have put on my plate.” NOT bored anymore. I am right in the thick of my purpose and my dharma and doing what I came to do on earth.

Sometimes I feel it would be so much easier to go home to source for an extended stay. To reemerge back to the bliss I came from. Not as a morbid thing like, ‘get me the hell out of here I want to die!’ No, I just feel so overwhelmed, I feel like I really need a deep REST. I want to recuperate, refresh, reignite and to re-invigorate… And as much as I sleep, I don’t find this feeling of deep deep rest and rejuvenation.

This is when I remember I don’t have to leave permanently to find my bliss, I just have to get back to my meditation practice.

Meditation is like going home while still on holiday here on earth. It is a way to rejuvenate and re-emerge back to our true nature of bliss. To jump into the sea of infinite energy and swim amongst the stars. It’s our way home, while vacationing in this crazy, contrasting physical environment.

The holiday is fun and there are wonderful people to meet, things to discover and places to go, but sometimes it gets a little exhausting. I do not have a stressful job or am I tied to a desk. I live my life doing what I love, full blast with passion, humour and enthusiasm, but we all need some time out.

We all need to nourish our souls and our bodies in a way that really counts.

When I forget to meditate, I reach for food as a way to find the energy I am looking for. But as healthy as the food may be, it still does not reach that place inside me which is asking for more. The empty place that says; ‘I want to be filled with ecstasy and eternity, I want my cup to overflow.’

Meditation for me today, is a way of filling this empty space with the love we have come to give and remember. Our meditation practise is a way of nurturing ourselves, while we nurture others. It is a way of being at home with the divine mother and to be embraced by the father and feel the essence of the god within, regardless of the movies we are running on earth.

It is a way to expand our empathic and intuitive abilities and allow the essence of our source to bubble to the surface of our being, so we can remember who we are and why we came. We can find our home, our centre and our bliss, all from a simple act of going within and tuning our being to the sound of source, as we drink the nectar of transcendence…

Meditation is a way to stay Intimate with the Infinite.

I write this as a way of reminding myself to meditate more. I hope it reminds you too.