Adam Lobon's blog

Reasurrance and Acceptance

A huge amount of time can be spent seeking reassurance...

Mental, physical and emotional reassurance.

We insure our worldly possessions just in case something happens to them and also like to have insurance for our path in life.

Going into the world with qualifications, surrounding our self with friends and like minded people. Not thinking too much about the unpleasant things that may come our way later - hoping just hoping for the best.

Trying to find and create a comfortable existence...seeking others opinion, agreement and acceptance...

"What do you think?"

"Do you agree"

"Do you like it"

Change takes place all the time on a subtle level - its sometimes difficult to notice the process if we are glued too strongly to circumstances.

Step back a little in meditation and you can see change taking place on a more subtle level - if you go with it - freedom can arise within. 

When we taste mental freedom then we can let go of the need for others reassurance and acceptance of us - we don't need it....

Learn to Meditate - The Half Lotus Posture

Here is a brief video revealing the half lotus posture:

Learn to Meditate - The Meditation Posture

Illustrating a variety of meditation postures - The Lotus Posture - Half Lotus Posture - Cross Legged Posture - Sitting in a chair - Sitting in an Arm Chair. Enjoy

Learn to Meditate - The Lotus Posture

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Here is short and essential guide revealing how to sit in the lotus posture , enjoy.  There is more to come on the meditation posture....

Have you made it yet - come on!

The whole 'made it concept' is crippling especially if bought into - now in the world immersed in materialistic wonder a lot of it hinges upon what you have outside of you.

Oh well they are getting there!  Getting where exactly?

Just to leave all behind when the time of death strikes....

What is "it"?!

How to relax in business - why spam never works

I have noticed sometimes in business and marketing there is an urgency that revolves around numbers and promotion - promoted products  are most often exaggerated and biased.

The majority of business and organizational websites are biased exaggerations...

If you aim to produce a quality product that you have put your heart and soul into then that is good enough.

The rest will follow naturally - you enjoy what you are doing and can relax at work.

That is why Spam and expensive advertising never really works....

Escaping the Straight Jacket

From the moment we emerge from our dear Mum's womb we have been categorized.

1) ITS A GIRL!!!

2) SO WHAT SHALL WE CALL HER

3) ISN'T SHE SWEET

4) SHE DOESN'T LIKE RUSKS!

5) SO WHAT NURSERY IS SHE GOING TO

6)ETC ETC

It goes on and on - first of all - all the grown ups who categorize themselves do it for us then we learn that this is what we need to do for our self.

Q) So what do you do?

A) Oh I'm a........

We do it to create an identity a personality so we can compare and contrast.

The other day this lady asked me what I did for a living I responded "Meditation"

Ah she said knowingly...

That was the end of the engagement.

What makes it worse is if you wear a uniform this actually bolsters one sense of truly being a soldier or a member of staff at MacDonalds.

Of course we all have roles and parts to play - but its taking the part so seriously that often undermines our ability to be happy.

Our emotional life can feel so real because our feelings seem so real - because we want to feel so alive.

Mountain out of a molehill syndrome - creating mini soap operas to make us feel alive.

We are alive anyway.

Judgment comes from this way of thinking - "oh there one of them!"

We can straight jacket our self and then just make do. 

Or we can change the way we look at our self and the world around us - liberate our mind from its limitations by identifying with our potential not our job, bank account, qualification or possessions....

Sometimes the best ideas you have to run with...

Yes we can design a project or house or life - have a set plan of how it should be - things never go according to plan and often if they do they turn stale.

Sometimes the best ideas you just have to run with and see how they take shape as they begin to evolve.

Thus making the process more spontaneous and creative.

Like an artist painting a picture or a writer creating a song.

Yes we have a rough template of the direction but then if we are open and flexible enough we can improve our idea and concept as time passes. This means what we do keeps developing, changing and improving.

It means we keep moving - everything is moving and changing anyway - moment by moment change takes place - often we can try to resist change and movement wanting things to stay still - they don't.

When we mentally stand still our creativity dwindles, disappears and our world becomes very real and....serious! 

Learn to Meditate - Creating a Meditation Space

A short, fun film that we have just uploaded at Mind Space showing how to practical create a meditation space in a formal and informal environment...enjoy!

Recovering from trauma through meditation - an account of a 9/11 survivor

Everything that we do comes through habit...

Humans are habitual beings - through familiarity activities become easier, simpler and more enjoyable.

Just as when we learn a musical instrument, learn to drive - initially it is complex and confusing - but then through practice and experience it starts to become familiar and then second nature.  We forget what it was like at the first attempt.

Habits of mind take us in particular directions.

If you want your life to evolve in a specific way then you need to create the appropriate pattern within your consciousness - meditation helps us create this pattern and make it deeper and deeper.

Yesterday I met a lady who's brother had been in the Twin Towers when they were attacked - he survived, his partner died, he went through a long period of mental breakdown and trauma - he was hospitalized.

Some years later he met a meditation teacher. He discovered that through training in meditation he could train, control and stabilize his mind - he practiced and it worked - he recovered. 

He created a habit of mind which gradually helped him to recover from his traumatic experience, come to terms with his loss and move on in his life and begin to experience peace and freedom.

Learn to meditate online here.