What If Meditation Became One of Your Go-To Tools?

Your Meditations Can Bring Alot More Than Peace

If the life you are creating is going to truly feel like yours, it helps to have ways of getting back to you.

That is one of the reasons I value meditation so much.

We often think about meditation as a way to relax, reduce stress, or quiet our minds. And certainly it can help us do all of those things. But meditation can also become something much more exciting: a place where new ideas begin to surface.

You may be sitting quietly and suddenly see an image of something you would love to experience. An idea may come for your business, your home, a trip, a project, or a completely different way of approaching something you have been thinking about. You may suddenly remember something you wanted years ago and somehow it fell through the proverbial cracks.

Sometimes these ideas seem to come out of nowhere. But I don't think they always do.

Some may be your own thoughts, desires, images, and possibilities that have been sitting beneath the everyday noise. Things you resisted, dismissed, postponed, forgot about, or simply did not have enough quiet to hear.

Meditation gives some of those ideas room to come back into view.

And that can be beautiful, because something that was once only a vague feeling can suddenly become a picture. That picture can become an intention. The intention can become a goal. And the goal can become something you begin consciously creating. This is when meditation becomes more than something you occasionally do because you know it is “good for you.”

It becomes one of your go-to tools for creating your life.

When you consistently make time to get quiet and listen with attention, you begin developing a relationship with your own inner world. You start noticing what keeps returning, what excites you, what gives you energy, what makes you smile, and what makes you think, I would love that. Those moments are worth paying attention to.

One study of experienced meditators even found that a form of open-monitoring meditation encouraged divergent thinking—the ability to generate multiple new ideas. Research on meditation and creativity is still developing, so I would not suggest that meditation automatically makes us more creative. But it does give us an interesting reason to pay attention to what becomes available when the usual mental noise quiets down. PubMed Central (PMC)

And consistency matters.

One meditation may give you a beautiful moment of peace. But when meditation becomes part of the way you regularly listen to yourself, you give your deeper thoughts and ideas somewhere to land.

You begin recognizing them instead of immediately dismissing them. You begin remembering them instead of losing them. And sometimes you begin believing in them enough to do something with them. Why? Because they start to come with emotions attached. Beautiful, fun, comforting or pleasing emotions.

So the next time you meditate, don't only become quiet.

Become curious.

Notice the images that arise. Notice the ideas. Notice what feels exciting, interesting, comforting, or expansive. You do not have to act on every thought that comes through. But you might want to listen.

Because somewhere in that quiet may be a picture of your life that has been waiting for you to notice it.

Meditation gives you more than quiet. It can give your own ideas enough space to find you again.

This Week’s Mantra

I make room to listen within.
I welcome the ideas, images, and possibilities that are mine, and I trust myself to recognize what is meaningful for me to create.

Many Blessings with Deep Love and Gratitude,
Deb
Deb Foggio
Intuitive Leadership Coach | Systemic Constellations Facilitator
LightWorks Enterprises | The Center for Integrative Well-Being

“I let my soul lead; my system follows.”