Meditation is a skill that can be learned and practiced. Initially, looking for a space of quiet stillness between your thoughts can confirm just how busy your mind really is. It may feel difficult, nearly impossible, to slow down your thoughts. However, with time and practice, you can learn to distinguish individual thoughts and clearly examine the quality of each thought. Meditation doesn’t require you to stop thinking.

Instead, meditation is an invitation to become intimately aware of each thought so that you can choose which thoughts are helpful in your healing journey and which thoughts set the stage for unease and frustration.

With this awareness, you gain the skill of choosing which thoughts to give time and energy to; you gain the ability to perceive your mental landscape with wisdom and clarity. This awareness allows you to respond with compassion toward yourself and to others.

Please enjoy these Guided Meditations from Lisa Ash Yoga.