Meditation Tip: Non-Attachment

Practicing meditation can be like prayer.  It is a devotional practice and requires of us that we be selflessly unattached to outcomes.  This can be a bit tricky because we see the effect meditation has on our lives and we begin to desire similar or greater results.

We know that the quality of our lives improves with a consistent practice of meditation.  We know that each time we sit down, we are healing our bodies, cleansing our minds, and enlivening our DNA. We know that we begin to see life differently and that we begin to behave differently as well.  Effortlessly.  Yet, it is easy to recognize these changes and become attached to a desired outcome!

Since results happen effortlessly, however, we need not interfere with the way the Creator deems our unfolding to manifest.  We, as the budding god-lets that we are, are not to take control of what will be healed next or what behavior will change next.  We are asked to surrender all of these hopes, cravings and even true desires to that timeless, infinite, still place that we become aware of during our turning within.  The opposite action will actually slow down the positive effects of our practice since doing so is like going against the current.

As we surrender, the Creator has more to work with for we are more humble, maleable, and innocent.  We take on the discipline of surrendering our will over to God's will and miracles arise(ie. positive change in our lives!)  Maybe not how we would have manifested them, but maybe in far greater ways than we could have worked up ourselves.  Practicing non-attachment to the outcome, we become free and leave the details to something GREATER than ourselves.