Meditation for sweet nothing
Adelaide yoga and meditation teacher Sandra Sebelis explains, “If you go back, we used to spend a lot of time sitting around the campfire watching the flames and sharing stories, or on the bank of a river to fish and nurture ourselves.”
“We don’t do those things anymore. We are considered lazy if we do nothing. But the concept behind meditation is that it is OK to simply be.”
I completed a four-week meditation course but not with ease. I find it difficult to put aside time to essentially sit and do nothing. But deliberately going somewhere outside of the home in order to sit and do nothing not only makes it easier, it feels as though it is permissible. If I’m not at home, I can’t attend the endless chores and tasks and to-do lists. In a meditation room, doing nothing becomes the goal and the success.
“You’re not focusing on nothing, you’re focusing on yourself,” Sandra says. “You’re connecting to your inner energy. Whether you’re focusing on a candle, your breath, listening to music, drumming or staring at a glass of wine – it’s about working on peace.”
Partners Jenny and Colin were inspired to try meditation after a chance meeting with a glowing 80-year-old who approached them out of the blue.
“We were drinking coffee at a cafe when a lady came in with her bike and asked if she could join us,” Jenny says. “She started telling us she’d already been for a swim in the ocean, she had cycled a long way and encouraged us to try meditation as the best thing she’d ever done.”
Already thinking it was time to try something new, Jenny and Colin first signed up for an eight-week course of Kirtan meditation which included singing and chanting.
In a meditation room, doing nothing becomes the goal and the success.
“We were looking for something we could do together, not high impact, and liked the idea of combining it with yoga,” Colin says. He says attending three times a week created benefits ranging from better sleep to simply giving the opportunity to not think about anything.
Allowing yourself a sweet nothing meditation is far from being a hippie or new-age belief.
It is an ancient human idling that allows you to experience serenity; slow down the body; improve focus and memory; and obtain a way inside the ever-fascinating subconscious to increase awareness and understanding.
In what ways can you make time to enjoy more of sweet nothing?
Warmest, Renee
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