![]() ![]() Then I would lock the car, very deliberately, just once. ![]() Rather than leaving the car in reverse, I’d put it in first gear, ready for the next departure. I’d arrive home, and instead of just ripping on the handbrake, grabbing my bag and leaping out of the car, I’d do all this consciously. So I started stringing these moments together. A little bit of sanity and self-awareness. So I made it my mission to ‘colonise’ that space, that time, that moment.Īnd somehow, there was something very satisfying in knowing that I’d locked the car. So I locked it again, just to be certain. Sometimes I’d do that on autopilot, so I’d have to lock it a third time, from across the street or half way down the block!Īnd then I thought to myself: “Now, who’s the neurotic one?” I probably had, but I didn’t know for sure, because it had all happened on autopilot. Half way across the street I’d suddenly remember that I hadn’t remembered whether I’d locked the car or not. ![]() I’d pull up somewhere, jump out and walk off. But then one day I noticed that I would nearly always lock my car two, or sometimes even three times. In all honesty, for a long time I thought the final chapters in Eric’s book were a bit nerdy and neurotic. My inspiration for these micro-meditations were the last few chapters of Eric Harrison’s book, The 5-Minute Meditator. I find them just as useful as a formal sitting practice. ![]() I’ve recently been experimenting with these moments of awareness and I’ve been surprised by just how profound they can be. Who says you have to do them back-to-back? And a twenty-minute meditation is nothing more than a bunch of moments in a row. What, for example, would it be like to think of meditation simply as a moment of awareness?Įveryone has a moment. And that, I believe, is why so many people struggle to put it into practice. And for nearly everyone, it means setting time aside to practice one or more of these things. For others it means sitting still, focusing exclusively on the breath or body, or chanting a mantra. Whether you fit into one of the categories above or not, I think the word meditation itself may be part of the problem.įor some people meditation means emptying your mind.
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