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Taming Monkey Mind

By October 1, 2018 February 26th, 2019 No Comments

Last month I wrote about the health benefits of meditation.  During the week, I was in the company of a lovely lady whom I have worked with for years and have had the pleasure of travelling with her on three occasions as part of a service tour to Cambodia.  Clare is one of the calmest, happiest people I know. She asked me to listen to the talk that she was presenting to the senior school at an assembly.  Her talk tied in so beautifully with what I wrote about last month, and she was happy to share it with me. Here it is, enjoy!

As this assembly closes, I thought we would finish with a little exercise to have a mind shift before we go to period 5. It is still connected to what we have heard today, but instead of focusing on anxiety, depression and mental health, I thought we could talk about dealing with stress in general.

We all get stressed. This is partly because of our fast-paced lives. A little bit of stress is okay – but what happens when it gets out of hand; when we feel that our minds won’t be quiet?

There is something we can do – and that is meditate – and we can do it anywhere, anytime! Even if It’s just for a couple of seconds while sitting in class, walking to a lesson, queuing in the cafe, being in the chapel.

You know many people have a misunderstanding about meditation – they think it is something like ‘think of nothing – concentrate on emptying the mind’!!!! Well to do that you probably need a few years sitting crossed legged in a monastery chanting OM…….

We can’t block thoughts and emotions – in fact we need our thoughts and emotions for all sorts of things.

But we can quieten our thoughts, and we can be aware of our emotions so that we can choose how we are going to respond to them.

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