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Commit2Sit: meditation challenge

February 9, 2020 //  by Kristine Bruneau//  Leave a Comment

Last year, I bought the book Real Happiness by meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg to understand more about the power of meditation and to sit longer and more often. After reading this book once, I have gone back to it over and over, re-reading and highlighting passages that I want to remember and share with others.

Recently, I signed up for The Real Happiness Challenge, a 28-day exploration of the tools of meditation led by Salzberg, with a goal to deepen my practice, sit with a like-minded virtual community, and share my experience.

When the mind is at ease, according to Salzberg, our hearts are open and calm and we can more naturally concentrate. Often I commit to sit and then I am bombarded with sounds, images and questions, threatening to overthrow my practice:

  • The dog is whining: What does she want?
  • What will happen to Midge in the next episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? (don’t tell me, I’m working on season 3)
  • I really don’t want to make dinner tonight
  • I forgot to call my parents
  • That speech isn’t going to write itself

The answer is to begin again. 

Everybody’s mind is out of control. If that were not the case, we wouldn’t need meditation. The key to meditation is to start over again and again. The next time I sit, I will accept distractions as impermanent buzzing creatures that don’t need my attention right now and simply begin again.

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Category: Lessons, meditationTag: meditation, sharon salzberg

About Kristine Bruneau

For more than two decades, Kristine Bruneau has made a career from writing and marketing communications. Her commentaries, stories, and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Daka Magazine, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Magazine and Rochester Woman Magazine. She posts regularly to her Mommy Musings blog at kristinebruneau.com where she explores lessons on motherhood, love, and life. Bruneau is an alum of the 2015 Listen to Your Mother Rochester event (#LTYM #ROC). You can watch her read her motherhood story "Tangled in Leather" at the LTYM Show channel on YouTube. Search: Kristine Bruneau.

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