Meditation is Unblending

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve been meditating for decades. Something intuitively drew me to this place of inner connection, awareness and observation at an early age. Much later I went through a year-long training in meditation so I could become a guide and pass it on.

The thing with following a (spiritual) practice that works for yourself is that often times you assume it’s the only workable practice, the ultimate one, often after years of searching. I distinctly remembered the moment though in which I realized I hit a point inside of me that I couldn’t possibly move beyond through meditation.

Admittedly, this point pretty deep inside was reached via meditation. And this is what is significant for me as a meditation guide & practitioner:

Meditation is an amazing, effective, and efficient tool to unblend yourself from others as much as from your own thoughts and emotions. The ones you’re so entangled with that you believe it’s you. It’s a workable and -technically- simple method to discern your Self from all the layers of experience, relationships, and demands that cover it up and that make it very difficult most times to connect with your Self.

Meditation is a beautiful tool to practice and strengthen the connection with your Self - since you’ve finally found it, you probably won’t want to lose it again.

And then, meditation is by default THE practice to see the traumas and survival strategies (otherwise known as stress or habitual patterns, behaviorisms) that keep you stuck in places and relationships in which you cannot live your full potential.

When I came to these realizations (I should say: whenever I come), I knew that I needed to find another method that could help me unravel, release and/or integrate those parts of myself that would make me engage with and do things that didn’t help me thrive.

To me that’s when Identity-oriented psychotraumatheory came in - to you it might be a different therapeutic method based on psychological theories and practices. It’s also part of my experience in searching that everyone finds their own mix, probably ever-changing, but yet essentially your instruments with which you regain your Self, your love, your care and clarity.

This is a shout-out for the beauty and essence of one such ancient and inherently humane method, meditation, in both its vast potential as much as its undeniable “limitations”.