Before I continue and let you know what other things I learned at the Meditation Festival I want to tell you why did I start to mediate after all. I think I started to meditate about 5-6 years ago when I didn’t know who I was. I was feeling very disconnected with myself and ungrounded. I didn’t know what I wanted and I didn’t love and accept myself at all.
Step by step I discovered on YouTube a lot of meditation music, articles about the subject and also Yoga, which is the body meditation. Meditation helped me so much in silencing the mind, focus and reveal my heart’s desires. It definitely helped me to listen to my intuition a lot better and to follow my happiness.
So back to the workshop. The speaker’s name was Pradhan Balter. I didn’t know who he is but I found out he is a student of Sri Chinmoy, who is a renowned spiritual teacher. I heard of Sri Chinmoy from Dr. Melissa West, whose yoga classes I am practicing.
I found Pradhan to be quite funny and he was explaining everything in a very simple manner. He was emphasizing a lot that peace and love are the most important and they make us feel alive and fulfilled. Oh, God, and that is so true.
There are three very important things that keep us alive: food, breath and the spiritual component. Without any of them, we wouldn’t be able to survive. Meditation focuses on the spiritual nourishment and in settling a base for a spiritual life. We started then to learn some simple meditation techniques.
On the fourth day of the workshop, it became very clear to me that the technique is not the meditation. If, for example, we want to go swimming in the sea, each person will have their unique way of getting in the water. The technique just gets me in the water. The point is to get wet and start swimming and having fun. The meditation is the experience of getting wet. I think this analogy is very simple an easy to understand.
It is very important to bring to meditation the enthusiasm of a child and that hunger of wanting to learn and discover myself. By the way, speaking about enthusiasm, even though that week I had less free time after work, I felt so good and happy because I was doing something that I liked and it improved my life. I also learned that when I really want to do something, I can do it and I can have a routine that helps me grow, evolve and have fun.
Ok, back to meditation. This can be of 3 types: in the mind, in the body-physical and in the heart. What I am getting better right now is the heart meditation. Oh, at the gym, it is definitely a body meditation and my mind just clears and is quiet for 1 hour and that feels amazing.
A question that really stayed with me after this workshop is what do I want and what do I think would make me really happy? How would my 2.0 version look?
