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In a speedy, stressed out world, meditation helps you access a sense of calm and focus. You may have noticed that most of the time we’re operating on autopilot, caught up in thoughts about the past and the future. Meditation helps us to be more present.
Meditation isn’t a way to escape. It can be very enjoyable, but it involves sitting with our experience with awareness, and sometimes that’s challenging. It’s a way to be more whole, whatever’s happening.
Our minds are more flexible than we think. Long before science told us about the brain’s ‘neuroplasticity’, the Buddha taught that we can change our minds by directing our attention in a more helpful way.
The effects of meditation extend to the whole of our lives. Bringing awareness into our experience in this way is what we call mindfulness.
Meditation and mindfulness speak to something deep inside us, calling us towards dignity, kindness, wisdom and strength. We all possess untold potential, and practising meditation means opening to that.
When we step out of our habits and reactions, as can happen when we meditate, it’s natural to become more aware of the needs of others and want to respond to them. That’s why kindness and compassion are important parts of Buddhist meditation.
The world needs us to be more aware. It needs us to meditate.