ENGBefore stress eating try STILL WATER meditation.
However sometimes we can use some guidance. Especially in those moments when our minds are like CHOPPY waters of a lake.
Choppy waters prevent us from seeing clearly, the same way our “choppy” minds push us REACT – EAT ON AUTOPILOT for whatever reason.
How to calm our minds instantly and effectively?
I love this simple STILL WATER meditation given us by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh.
We are invited to use objects in nature (not only water, but also flower, mountain, space) to:
- develop our mindfulness,
- get in touch with and strengthen positive qualities of calmness, solidity, freshness, and freedom that are already inside ourselves,
- help us appreciate the happiness that is in us and around us,
- provide stable base to take care of our difficult feelings and strong emotions,
- calm and relax or body and mind.
STILL WATER MEDITATION
You are invited to reflect on qualities water embody and represent.
Calm, still water reflects nature as it really is. You may have noticed that it reflects the mountains, clouds, and trees around it perfectly.
When we learn how to mindfully breathe in and breathe out, we are like the still water. We make ourselves still and calm.
Then we can see things as they really are and not get caught in negative mind states. We have the capacity for great clarity. That is the still water within us.
PRACTICE
Water. Reflecting.
INVITATION
Let yourself become like a still water.