How Meditation and Silence Changes Your Relationship with Everything

There is a need for silence and a need for sound…each within its own season. I will say for me, the practice of simply watching the breath and bringing attention back to it when my mind wanders has been a profound shift for me. I had done this type of meditation before on and off, but recently, inspired by my teacher, I have been engaging in this practice daily. I also recently did a 24 hour silence retreat in my house where I did not look at my phone, watch t.v., listen to music or go anywhere except for a short walk in my neighborhood. Since then, I have been slowly noticing shifts in my approach to my day. Along with a caffeine fast, I feel clearer, more grounded and more emotionally balanced. The other night, I had a strange pain in the left side of my body that woke me up and I do occasionally experience this every few months or so. I do not know why this non-descript non-localized type of pain comes, but it does and it is always on the left side. This time, I actually had the sensation of breathing into a certain body part that was in pain, and then the feeling of comfort would come over that body part, which previously I was not able to do. The breathing into it was actually changing my physical state. The moments I had spent sitting quietly and following my breath and feeling blissful is now translating in to my daily life.

Another thing I have noticed is that I feel closer to Divine Peace. I believe the gift of God is an underlying realm of peace and I feel it more and more now even when I am activated. It’s not to say that I do not feel anxiety or sadness, anger or loneliness. I do feel them, but I am slowly gaining an ability, it seems, to hold it and also hold another frequency at the same time. The frequency of this Divine Peace, the more I access it, grows stronger with my commitment to spend time it with it regularly. The last thing I will say is I experience less self-judgment and negative judgment of others. It feels more comfortable being around others when they don’t trigger you so much anymore because you just feel more love in general. I still have a hard time sometimes and get knocked off balance, but I am committed to practicing to help myself see clearly from this state of peace more and more often.

If you have never tried a regular, committed meditation practice, I encourage you to do so. Try a guided breath watching meditation practice on an app or Youtube for example. Walking meditations are great too. Try walking without listening to anything and taking mindful steps or even eating or washing dishes without any external input, just attention to your breathing. Enjoy the relaxation it brings and that will keep you motivated to practice. You may find you even enjoy music more after a significant amount of time spent in silence. Lots of love - Meera