The easiest — and most difficult — and most powerful meditation
by Ken Winston Caine
The most powerful form of meditation that you can practice is both the easiest and the most difficult.
What I mean by that paradox is that this meditation is easy to do and difficult to sustain.
This form of meditation is easy to practice in part because you can do it anywhere at any time in any situation. It doesn’t require quiet, aloneness, fixation on a sound or mantra or image or any particular breathwork, or blanking of the mind.
It is a powerful meditation in that its results are felt and evidenced immediately, and not only by you, but by others with whom you interact.
This powerful meditation is the practice of presence. The practice of being and acting fully present in the current moment. Holding your presence fully in the now.
Mastering this meditation is a 5-step process. To engage in this meditation practice, simply:
1. Catch your attention from having drifted away from the present, from the moment, from who and what is in front of you and around you now…and draw it back gently, and allow it to fix there firmly, fully.
2. While holding your presence and attention in the immediate moment, allow yourself to feel love, respect and non-judgment for those (and that) with whom you are sharing this moment.
3. Again, catch your attention from having drifted away from the present, from the moment, from who and what is in front of you and around you now…and draw it back gently, and allow it to fix there firmly, fully.
4. While holding your presence and attention in the immediate moment, allow yourself to feel love, respect and non-judgment for those (and that) with whom you are sharing this moment.
5. And so on….
