Surrender

“Meditation is like a weird video game: if you want to move forward, you can’t. You have to surrender to whatever’s happening right now, continuously letting it be what it is.”

– Dan Harris, via Being Well Podcast, #269

 I like Dan Harris and I really find much knowledge in the Being Well Podcasts by Rick Hanson, really good stuff.  This quote has been my experience, if I attach to an expectation of how I want to feel and/or want to experience during meditation, I am grasping at water.  I may feel it yet it’s elusive.  The practice of letting go and just being allows me to be with the water and/or be the water.  Quite a different behavioral pattern than I’ve grown up with which sounds like “You need to work really hard to get what you want”.  Makes me think of this song, “Heaven is Here when the Mind is Clear” by MC Yogi.  Clear = surrendering. 

 I find mindfulness meditation supports my intention to surrender….if only for a moment.

 Mindfulness Meditation

Mondays & Thursdays

12:15 – 12:45 pm

Room 407 @ Second Presbyterian Church

7700 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN  46260

or

Zoom! – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83998337582

Meeting ID: 839 9833 7582  Password:  672891

Join others in Mindfulness Meditation on Mondays and Thursdays at 12:15 pm.  Brief discussion, followed by silent practice and concluding with observations, comments or wonderings. Take refuge in the present moment.  Mindfulness Meditation is the opportunity to rest in Presence in a supportive environment with others. No experience, fee or registration is necessary.

P. Scott Sweet, LCSW, LCAC