The 21-Day-Meditation-Challenge ended a week ago. Have I been meditating since? Yes. Have I gotten any better at it? No. Do I have the best intentions? I do. So what exactly did I win by doing this challenge and completing it too?
First of all, let me repeat what I hoped the challenge would bring me. I was hoping for peace. Inner peace and a quiet mind. Better yet, to not have any thoughts at all. Well, soon enough I found out that there is no such thing as not having thoughts. Not having thoughts would mean being dead. Now that could potentially be Nirvana too, but not the kind I was looking for. So I accepted that it is okay to have thoughts while I meditate. I meditate and I have thoughts. That is just the way it is. At least for now.
Furthermore, the challenge has brought me something unexpected. The answer to the question: what do I want? (And it is not: being pissed off!) I want to inspire people. I want to inspire the whole world. I want everyone to be inspired to be the most enlightened version of themselves. To act from love, rather than reacting from fear. To know that a couple of deep breaths will make a difference between a fight and letting go. That being happy is more important than being right.
How am I going to do that? How am I going to inspire the world? I don't know. During those 21 days I have found though, that something inside me has changed. My connection with the Universe has become more palpable (if that is possible). That I am more "in the flow" and that meditating helps me being a better person. I think of Ghandi when I say that in order to change the world, I have to start with myself. I am started. Thoughts or not. How is that for a winner? I'd call it a win-win.
Stay tuned.
Marije
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