Advice to a Friend

Meditation is about centering, turning your focus inward, relaxing, calming, quieting the voices, just being… it is about allowing the silence to surround you, comfort you, and finally, in the most still, calm, quiet moment you can imagine, sometimes you can hear the voice of the infinite residing inside of you. It’s an amazing, powerful, transforming thing – this turning inward.

So, you mention many times that you were “all over the place” – and it occurs to me that you might find some training in a simple form of meditation useful. Don’t go into it looking for this silence that speaks – it’s another one of those gifts that happens when it happens, not when you prepare for it. But just the act of turning your focus inward would help you from being or feeling "all over the place."

One thing at a time.

One practice.

One breath.

One-ness.


We tend to become what we focus on. Thoughts of fear, anxiety, sanity won’t help you. It doesn’t serve you at all. It’s like when you’re getting a shot from the doctor and your staring at the needle. Or you get a cut and you’re watching the blood ooze out… that focus hurts you. So again, all this to suggest a different focus. One that is calming, inward, looking at your journey.

Learn to observe yourself

Learn to see your heart

Learn to see your soul

Learn to marvel at your complexity

Learn to enjoy your simplicity

Learn to see

Learn to feel

Learn to breathe

Learn to be

Just be

Be silent

Find your center

Find your core

Let that inner wisdom speak to you

It is there

I promise

It is your rhythm

Find your beat

Find your drum

Let the music move you

Let it soothe your savage beast (the one that is all over the place)

Dance

Sing

Rejoice

Let go

Breathe

Love

Live

Laugh

Shine