Beginner's meditation

Recently, a good friend of mine (over forty) decided to ask her boss for a raise. She worked for several years as an artist-designer in her company and deserved a salary increase for a long time, but she was overcome by doubts. Every day, when she went to work, she was tormented by doubts and worries. Over and over again, she went through the upcoming conversation with her boss, remembering all her merits - successful projects, advertising design and brochures. Sometimes in her imagination, she managed...

Start this meditation session by concentrating on your thoughts. After a few minutes, notice the whispering voices inside you. (If you don't hear any voices, you probably have some feelings or images.) Analyze the voices - do they sound at the same time, interrupting each other, or does one dominant voice stand out among them? Do they criticize or approve of you? Shame or praise? Talk about you or more about other people? What emotion are these voices colored with? Do they sound like love and kindness...

Unclear mumbling of your consciousness When you look inside yourself, the first thing you meet is the constant mumbling of your consciousness. Buddhists compare the consciousness with the restless and noisy monkey, constantly jumps from branch to branch, not staying anywhere. It is possible that most of the time you will listen to the silent chatter of your mind, not even realizing it. Mumbling of consciousness can take the form of memories of the past, building pictures of the future or attempts to solve the problems of the present...

For more than a thousand years, the greatest minds of the East and West have been telling us that the source of all our problems is our consciousness. I will join their point of view. Of course, they are right: your consciousness itself "may be the heavens of hell and hell of heaven" (as the English poet John Milton put it). After all, consciousness cannot be removed with the help of a scalpel! To find the answer to this question, let's first get acquainted with the principles of our consciousness...

- Learn how to identify cause-effect relationships. Notice how your actions - and the feelings and thoughts that accompany them - affect others and your mood. Note: if you are angry or frightened, the echoes of these emotions for hours or even days affect other people's reactions, your own condition and your meditation activities. The same applies to kindness and compassion. As they say, you will reap. - Think about the fragility and fragility of life. Death is real, the Tibetan monks say; it can...