Mindfulness and Your Shudda, Wudda, Cuddas

Leave them on the floor

As Humans, we are very good at one thing, beating up on ourselves when things do not go the way we feel that they should have. And alas, we take this thinking into our meditative space. We feel that every time we sit down to meditate, it should be one rapturous session.

We should see the stars, even during the day. We should travel through the cosmos in swirls of purples and pinks. We should have no thoughts, our minds becoming a beautiful vacuous space. We should have mind orgasms because we heard that they were better than sex. We should see the light.

We should, we should. And when none of these shoulds happen we get out the big stick and we beat up on ourselves. We feel that it was a wasted session because we had the should nots.

We should not have had all these thoughts. We should not have had to wrestle with feelings and emotions. We should not have heard the mosquito buzzing near our ear. We should not have felt our butt aching and our back and shoulders tensing up. We should not have mercifully wanted it to end.

We should not, we should not. We need to forget the shoulds and the should nots when we sit to meditate. Just see each visit to that space as a good one. No, not just a good one, but as a beautiful experience between ourselves and the One.