I will talk a little about the difference between conscious awareness and meditation, the names of which we often hear together today.
Meditation is the direct experience of the present moment.
Conscious awareness, instead of being in a scattered mind or thoughts. It means being present in the present moment. It is to experience life as it develops.
Meditation provides a facilitating environment for experiencing conscious awareness. Most of the time, as our practice develops, we begin to apply this approach to our daily lives as the teachings are internalized.
In fact, the main element that defines all our experiences is our mind. Conscious awareness does not require you to change anything about yourself; Only you can decide that you want to make some changes in your life by becoming more and more aware of your own mind.
I often use the example of the 'busy road' when explaining the mindfulness approach to my clients. If we assume that the road is your mind, we can imagine you sitting on the side of this road, blindfolded or unbound. Meditation shines a bright light into your mind, illuminating the path so you can see it better. This bright light is awareness.
Trying to stop feelings and thoughts, ignoring them, encouraging them, engaging with them are all tactics used to escape or interfere with the reality of what is happening. It's like trying to control traffic by running between cars.
So, how do you feel about taking your place on the side of the road instead and just watching the traffic flow by staying there?
Getting lost in your thoughts and emotions, becoming one with them. Instead, when you take a few steps back, you realize that you can see them better thanks to the gap created by the increasing distance between you. This is the first step to becoming an observer.
Maybe one day a very interesting thought will come to you again, you will be attracted to it and follow it. Maybe one day, a rusty old car, an unpleasant feeling, and you get so caught up in resisting this feeling that the next thing you know, you're in traffic again.
The traffic flows. resisting the beam, trying to change it, intervening... or staying in our observer seat and observing this flow from a certain distance, letting the traffic flow without trying to change it or without dwelling on it. The choice is always ours.
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