Vlog 93 | Thoughts On Not Thinking | Meditation 101

In this video I talk about my approach to mediation. I am not any sort of spiritual guru and don't meditate nearly as much as I should. That said I had a huge transformation in myself and in my mediation when I started approaching it in a different way. I started meditating at a young age maybe 14 or 15 years old. But when i first started I had all the wrong goals, I was trying not to think and not thinking isn't anything you can try to do. When I shifted my goals of mediation I was able to get a lot more out of it. What you get out of meditation has a huge amount to do with what you put into it and also how you approach it. Your mindset and goals for your meditation will totally determine what you are able to achieve through meditation.

By setting realistic goals, for instance to relax and improve your mental health it is much easier to be successful at meditation and achieve your goals. This success builds on it until eventually you may have some moments of satori, a state where the linguistic centers of the brain shut down and you begin to perceive the would without the lens of language. However if you set this as your goal you will never achieve it... It's a bit paradoxical, kind of like the practice of not giving an F about the dtube upvote.

I hope you find this video helpful. I am hoping to get a good hour of meditation in this weekend. It has been a long time since I've had enough time to sit and do nothing for an hour. And that is really how I've improved my mediation practice is just thinking of it as sitting and doing nothing, it helps to take the pressure off of trying to have a "successful" mediation.

thanks everyone for your support and for watching, you are awesome!!!

let me know how you meditate and what you have found that helps improve your practice, please drop a comment below!!!

~Noah