Well ladies we are in the home stretch, the last week of the thirty day challenge.  I hope you have been able to find a way to make meditation a part of your daily life and I know that if you have you are already experiencing the miracles that are flowing your way. 

Meditation requires discipline.  I’ll tell you the truth.  I have practiced for almost twenty years and it still doesn’t always come easy.  Sometimes I am that cross legged, humming vision of peace.  Sometimes I find it hard to squeeze out fifteen minutes for a walking meditation.   However, I can always tell the difference in my life when I don’t make my practice a priority.  I can feel the edges getting a little rough and things start grinding down for me.  Most of my friends who are long time meditators report the same phenomenon when they slide off their practice.

With the recent boom on the market of the movie/book The Secret, meditation has taken on a whole new meaning – one of being a tool for manifesting goodies into your life.  For those of us who have been at practice for awhile, this was no secret.  When I said in the first week of this series that miracles follow meditation, I wasn’t playing with words or trying to sell you something.  It’s an undisputable fact. 

For those of you who read my columns you already know that earlier this year my life went through some pretty significant transition.  Transition always feels a bit like chaos. No matter how flexible you are, in the chaos it gets difficult to do even the most important things you should to take care of yourself.   I must admit, I fell off the wagon and quit my meditation practice all together, not for long, but long enough.   Long enough that I felt as if things in my life just weren’t working and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t seem to get things back on course.

After a few weeks in a fit of desperation I sat alone in my room and crossed my legs and sought the solace of the void of meditation.  At least there, I knew I could find quiet, if nothing else.  What I found was much more then quiet.  I found compassion for myself, and peace, and ease, and grace, and before long the miracles began to follow.  The thing about the void of meditation is there is no resistance there.  When our lives are cluttered with resistance meditation clears the path for our natural good to follow.  When I look at my life today, it is so vastly different from my life in the winter that I hardly could have imagined how much better things could be.  Much like Reena, from earlier in the month, when I look at myself in the mirror, I’m glad to see the me I am happy with smiling back at me.

I always tell my student’s meditation is a practice you have to stick with.  You have to be willing to meditate for no good reason with no expectation and that results may be slow coming.  However, the reality is meditation pays off more quickly then you might think.  In my case, in my own 30 day challenge starting in March, what a difference a month made!  My business is booming, my relationship with my sixteen year old is incredible, I have started a wonderful relationship with an amazing man, and I’m feeling on top of the world.  Coincidence?  Maybe, but I don’t think so. 

Please email me with your meditation makeover stories.  I’d love to hear what’s bloomed in your life after 30 days with your shiny new meditation practice.

Lisa Hayes

This entry was posted by Lisa Hayes on May 28th, 2007 under Spirit and Inspiration with keywords .

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