* If you’ve ever put on your favorite music in the car and just chilled out for a few moments, you might just be a “meditator.”

* If you’ve ever purposefully taken a moment to daydream, you might just be guilty of meditating.

* If you’ve ever escaped from your workday for just five minutes to have some time to relax your mind, you’re guilty of meditating.

* If you’ve ever found yourself in a state of peaceful, still, reflection in a fond memory – you’re guilty of meditating.

* And if you’ve ever sat with your eyes closed and levitated your pet goldfish out of his fish bowl – chances are, you were probably mind-deep in mediation.

You may not levitate gold fish, but you meditate when you don’t even realize you are doing it. Meditation isn’t always sitting with your legs crossed, chanting “ummmm,” and trying to astral project yourself to another dimension. Rather, meditation is a simple and easy tool for taking a moment to realize who you are. It’s nothing more and nothing less.

We don’t necessarily like to define ourselves by the chaos in our lives. So mediation is a way to relax and remind ourselves of the peace we want to bring in our lives. It’s a way to remind ourselves who we are beneath anything we don’t like about our lives. Meditation is a way to escape from everything we don’t like in order to remind ourselves how we do want to define ourselves.

When you take even a few short moments to realize that you can find a better, more calm, relaxed, and put-together version of yourself – beneath all the tension and chaos in our lives – then you can see things aren’t so bad after all. And if we can’t remind ourselves there is some sense of hope and peace to guide us in our lives, who can we expect to always do it for us?

This is why meditation is so important, even in its simplest form. The more we let the chaos in our lives get to us, the more it becomes us. Conversely, the more we interject our lives with meditation, the more we can remind ourselves who we are, and who we choose to be amid the chaos. And by doing so, we can bring this clear thinking into our daily doings, thus bringing fruition or the best damn version of ourselves we can muster.

And like anything, practice makes perfect. The more you practice getting to that more put-together version of yourself, the more you live it. So you see, meditation isn’t just for the Buddhist monks, or for Bruce Lee before he gets in a sparring match (God rest his karate chopping soul). Mediation is for anyone, anytime, anywhere. And it’s simpler than many people realize.

Most importantly, meditation is up to you. Would you rather practice getting flustered from everything in your day, day after day? Or would you rather practice finding a sense of tranquility and higher expression of the best version of your self? Meditation carries the latter. And meditation is the ladder each of us carries to climb to our best.

About the Author:

Jim Camut, editor of ManifestWell.com, strives to bring forward ideas that can help us live healthier, enlightened, happier, and more wholesome lives. His passion of total well-being comes with his pursuit as a professional athlete.

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