Altiefe

I have been recently delving into the discipline of meditation. I aim to practice only ten minutes a day, everyday. I would like to share with you perhaps my biggest breakthrough regarding meditation - the importance of the present. As a young creative, I am constantly looking either forwards  into the future visualing my goals or backwards  into the past - learning from my mistakes.  I found that through practice, particularly in guided meditation that I was ignoring arguably the most important time frame - the now . It suddenly dawned on me. In order to bring my future aspirations into fruition I have to examine my actions in the present moment to ensure that they fit with what I aim to achieve in the future . The same applies for my past - in order to ensure that I am learning from any mistake or painful experience, I have to be cognisant of what I am doing in the now to ensure that I am truly implementing changes from what I have learned from the past into my present day ac

We are very much consumed in speed. We want to lose thirty pounds in four weeks, we want to achieve a revenue of one million pounds in one year, we want to work three hours a week and earn triple of what we earn right now. Whilst this is definitely achievable and desirable, the emphasis on speed and small investment, whether that is time, money or both misses out a major component of any success - the process. In our desire for quickness we miss out the invaluable lessons taught by the process of getting to exactly where we want to be. We often miss the lessons that teach us infinitely more than achieving an actual goal does - because achieving a goal is what we want , not necessarily what we need . Often, working towards a goal gifts us with many set backs. These set backs are lessons to apply to our current as well as any future goals that we have planned - they are a learning material, not an indicator that you should start a new goal. There is a complex with failure - we