Where do you Dwell?

Where do you dwell?

A lot of the day we spend our time dwelling in internal places that hold a low resonance or vibration. We worry, we stress out, we obsess, we freak out, we get super excited only to plummet back to the depths when so-called reality comes knocking. It is a rollercoaster of freak outs and worry-wart sessions, and because we are all doing it, it becomes the norm, a universal consciousness, and in many ways the people who are calm and chilled out, taking things one step at time and pacing themselves seem somehow abnormal – who do these weirdos think they are?

So where are you dwelling? Are you dwelling on the emotional rollercoaster, in the stress strait-jacket or maybe you are just zoning out, disconnecting from the frenetic energy that is all around, hovering somewhere just out of your body looking down on the madness.

There are alternative places to dwell. Where would we like to be dwelling?

Dwelling in Mindfulness

Is this talk about mindfulness all just pie in the sky talk from a bunch of Buddhists chanting in caves? Dwelling in caves would seem to naturally breed mindfulness but how do us Westerners realistically find mindfulness and maintain it?

Many misinterpret mindfulness as some pristine, perfect art, thinking that to be mindful is synonymous with being enlightened, and that is far from the truth. Mindfulness is a process that lasts your whole life, unless you are a chosen one and become enlightened.

The meaning of mindfulness is dwelling in the present moment in the heart. It is being witness to the present moment, to the sensations of the body, to your thoughts, to your feelings, to all the sensory information that is coming into your system.

Mindfulness acknowledges reality and embraces it; it doesn’t resist it, instead it watches and observes the nuances of the feeling or the thought. It notices the ripples of rage as much as it notices the surge of joy and excitement. The beauty of mindfulness is in the watching.

In the watching we connect with the moment, a fleeting, quivering sensation, and what I love about the experience of mindfulness is the way judgment slips away, classification slips away, and clarity comes into soft focus. When in the zone of mindfulness clarity rises to the surface rather than you trying to attain clarity. There is no striving, no egotistical grasping, no pumped-up prideful proclamations, in fact, it is pretty peaceful in a place of mindfulness.

Mindfulness connects us to ourselves, to a deeper wisdom and a deeper knowing.