In meditation, one of the skills is learning to not edit. Welcome and transmute instead of suppressing. For example, if you were angry at someone during the day but had to holdback and not say anything, that anger will come up and fill your body when you meditate. There is a set of skills you can learn to turn that anger into good clean fire energy you can use for your own life. This can become almost instantaneous, with practice.
In meditation it is okay for any thought to come because you aren’t going to act on it. That is basically all you need to decide and it is kind of a vow: “I am not going to act onany thought that comes during meditation.” The second part of this is, “After meditation,in my regular waking state, I will decide how to act, in accord with my highest integrity.”
When you decide this, you are giving freedom to your heart and mind to get busy sorting and processing all those impulses and emotions. Thoughts don’t come from outside you. When you notice a thought it is just some aspect of the world your brain is tracking and wanting to make sense of.
If you want to learn how meditation can be nourishing, effortless, and fun, join us for a 5-week online meditation retreat called Wild Serenity, which begins tomorrow, August 16th.
