Hello! This is Carlos. I have decided to write my first post about “Our Life” in Lecce about meditation. I was initiated into the topic this summer by a good friend, Jorge. Many people had talked me about the power of meditation before, but he started explaining it in such a way that it felt like something that can be shaped in many different ways, something that each of us has to adapt to our needs. This way, he guided me and other friends. This first contact with meditation didn’t feel revealing or life-changing at all. However, I was getting through a very delicate moment, and I was trying to be wide-minded and commit to anything that made me feel better. Fortunately, I found new ways to feel better and to get to know myself a bit better. Meditation wasn’t the solution to my problems. But I kept on meditating alone every day, just because it was (and it is) so clear that is not something you can accomplish or from which you can benefit in just a week. It was in that moment when I realize the effects of meditation: it wasn’t the solution; it was the best way to highlight it. Meditation is not healing music; it’s a process that allows to create the suitable stage to play that music. This way, I can have the best stage and not be able to create, play or discover my healing music. But if I ever find that music, I don’t want it to go unnoticed or lay low, so better set the stage before… I found out that setting up the scene helps to find out the music that I want to be played there. Life went on and took me to Lecce, where I was willing to live new experiences. Sara invited me and the girls to join a group meditation called “Wake up”, within the teachings and practice of Thich Nhat Hanh. I didn’t have to think twice.
Recently, meditating in group has become a habit. Therefore, there are some times now that I feel lazy to go or I tend to thing “I don’t need to meditate this week”. That has turned meditation into something common, usual… rather than something sacred. This has been shown to be really positive: I don’t need to need to meditate, I don’t need to get in the mood to meditate, and I don’t need to accomplish anything after a meditation session… As said by Thich Nhat Hanh: “I have arrived, I am home”.
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