Letting Go – Oprah & Deepak Meditation Challenge Day 16
There are people, and situations, that test our patience and leave us wrapped in negativity. Day 16 of the Oprah & Deepak Meditation Challenge enlightened us on how to release and let go of such emotions by choosing to become the observer.
Reframing our Perspective
The peace of our mind is at stake every time someone hurts or angers us. It affects our health, happiness and progress. A better way to deal with such situations in life was revealed in today’s meditation. When we meditate on a regular basis, we develop what is known as “witnessing awareness”—the ability to calmly and objectively observe a situation, acknowledge when we are being triggered, and consciously choose how we want to respond.
Retaining Positivity
When we are tempted to react to a situation, we need to ask ourselves whether we want to:
1. Live in the shadows of past or
2. Be a pioneer of the future
Harboring negative feelings can be destructive for our health, well-being and push us away from the life of love-filled relationships that we crave for. There will always be people and circumstances who push our buttons. Instead of feeling stuck in knee-jerk reactions and conditioned patterns of behavior, we can train ourselves to make choices that will help take us closer to our inner power of insight. And that brings us to the centering thought for the day:
I release and my heart is at peace.
Next time we are in such a situation, we should pause, step back and go to the position of the observer, and calmly and mindfully take the decision of what step we should take next. In time, we we will learn to let go. Maybe not all at once, but we will surely get there.
Meditation
We meditated today on ‘Om Anandam Namah’ which means ‘My actions are blissfully free from attachment to outcome’. The word ‘Anand’ translates to ‘bliss’ and it gives me joy and peace every time I repeat it. How lovely would it be to simply repeat some words that mean/bring joy to us. Of all the words we choose to speak in a day, there are hardly any that we repeat to ourselves just for the sake of pondering over them because they make us happy. My 2 year old loves to repeat new words he gets a kick out of saying. And he does look happy saying them aloud whenever he does it. Maybe we should go back in time and learn what it meant to ‘chant’ things that made us happy and not just say things ‘we must’. Back to the mantra and the meditation, it was a blissfully divine experience meditating on this mantra!
Namaste.
