Meditation as a tool to discover your life purpose

In Vipassana meditation, the purpose is to go further and further towards liberation. So as you go on with your life, all you’re doing is going deeper into the exploration of yourself, and deeper into unlocking your potential. Everything else just becomes the backdrop for that.

What you pick to do in the physical world stops being as important as the fact that you do it with practice. You do it with focus, you do it with poise, you do it with impeccability. You could be a street cleaner or a billionaire, it doesn’t make any difference. That stops being important to do with your purpose.

What becomes important is the fact that you’re living a meditative life and you’re continuously choosing truth over illusion. Choosing liberation over slavery. You’re going deeper into yourself and finding out how to access different pieces of yourself that you do your best to bring forth and engage with the world.

Meditation as a tool to navigate relationships

Meditation is not something complicated or abstract. With practice, you will notice how much benefit it will bring you and how much your life changes for the better. You will notice more peace, harmony, and happiness in yourself, in your relationships, and even in your business. Meditation has become a key element in our lives, as is the reason we founded Yogilab. Let us guide you through the most important insights we got along the way. Here are Yogilab tips for meditation, keys to meditation, as well as meditation tricks.

Metta meditation is helping us to understand unconditional love. It can frame the way that we approach other people. It teaches us to be able to find this source of love and stable loving awareness inside of us and to be able to shine this on anyone. So to be able to extend this love to everyone in our lives, we stop putting demands or restrictions on how other people are. Someone might not meet our requirements in certain areas and we might have certain things that we want from a relationship but this doesn’t mean that this should move us from our loving position. We can choose to end relationships, we can choose to reframe relationships, but we gain this ability to stay in a loving position regardless of what the other person is. This means that we stop being reactive to the qualities of others. We stop needing to have expectations, to set demands, and feel like they have to meet them to deserve our love.

And the other way around, when people start setting demands on us to be able to give us love, we realize that this isn’t this loving awareness that we want to focus on us either. This would be a transactional relationship. So we can meet the demands of others and feel comfortable not living up to them. Ultimately, it is us who should choose what we want to be, and it shouldn’t be dictated by what other people want from us.

Meditation as a tool to heal depression and anxiety

In Vipassana meditation, we get to the core of what depression and anxiety really are. Those things are reactions to an internal stimulus. When you’re feeling anxious, feel what does that physically actually means. What is the sensation you’re reacting to? When you’re feeling depressed, feel what that means. With Vipassana meditation, you learn to feel that and not react to it and those things stop having power over you.

It may not be gone overnight, but it becomes something you can deal with more easily. You go through stages in your recovery. The first one is to find the sensation in your body. The second is to feel it and not react to it. As you do that, you learn to be able to live with that feeling and it not be something that when it starts to happen and takes over that it pushes you into action. You can simply feel it, regardless of how sad you are.

Then, something funny will start to happen: even when you’re depressed, you’ll be happy. You no longer need to be happy. You can be going through these ups and downs and still feel that piece of you without reacting to it.

Eventually, as you feel it without reacting, this thing will start to dissipate and go away. It becomes a part of the landscape of what it means to be you instead of a taboo sensation, a sensation that pushes you into compulsion.

Meditation as a tool to get over the fear of death

Getting over the fear of death is not only an important thing for each of us to do, it’s something that makes every area of our lives richer. There are many traditions in the many spiritual traditions that talk about the strength to accustoming ourselves to death and accepting our mortality. In the shamanic culture, death is an advisor and an ally. It’s there to help you clear all the nonsense and focus on what’s really essential, and how we really want to live our life, the people that we want to spend time with.

Like the Samurais, meditate on your death to be able to face life fully. Leave things finished with people when you see them. Speak to them as if it was the last time you’ll ever gonna see them. If there’s anything under the table that you want to tell them, bring that up. Get down to the bottom of things. One of the great techniques to get over the fear of death is to sit in the morning and imagine yourself dying in a thousand ways. If you mentally get over it, you’re free from the fear associated with it because you faced and accepted it. Then, when you go on with your day, you’re no longer afraid of “little deaths” like admitting you’re wrong or letting go of an unhealthy relationship, or even taking the courage to lead your presentation at work.

If you’re freed of what you thought reality is, you can engage with direct experience and see reality as it is.

For more meditation tips, watch Meditation Mondays by @MeditationDave.