10 Steps for Meditating without Meditating

The practice of meditation has been proven to be one of the best ways to reach emotional balance, spiritual clarity, and a peace of mind no matter what surrounds you at any given moment.

A human beings true power is the ability to respond to live, not to react. This is where the solutions to your biggest problems lie. Unfortunately, doubt and ego are the biggest culprits that keep us from the ongoing practice of sitting down in the moment to connect to oneness to find the answers in the stillness. Sometimes doubt and ego, though they try to do this with love, are the very reason that we neglect to even try.

Doubt might tell you it's hard so save yourself the trouble. Ego will say it's pointless so don't waste your time. These are self limiting belief systems in place to keep you "safe". What they do in reality is prevent you from moving upward. Without realizing, we hurt ourselves with fear and doubt by not trying or continuing.

Some folks come to the false conclusion that meditation takes long or that it is for the gurus or, further still, that it simply doesn't fit into their lives.

I am here to tell you that meditation can be SO MUCH SIMPLER than you ever thought possible. Yes, sometimes it's sitting down in quiet and stillness but sometimes it's more than that. Sometimes it's more alive. Sometimes it's more any moment. And someday, hopefully, it's every moment.

How to Meditate without Meditating (a real-life example)

So, how do you do just about meditatively? Simply become the observer of the moment. Observe details. Zone in on one of them and see if you can delve deeper.

For example, if you do an eating meditating (one of my favorites) and your focus lands on your tongue, think to yourself deeper . . . How does it move? Where does it go? Does it remind me of anything?

For me it was an incredible experience where my tongue had become detached in my imagination becoming itself its own creature moving and gliding, curling, and twisting around teeth and through saliva in search of food bits big enough to maneuver under the crushing boulders that are my teeth.

The direction and movement of my tongue were not something I consciously thought of so it became interesting to watch because there was seemingly no precognition to the movement of the tongue.

The crush of the apple as the juice explodes out of its confinement of skin and apple fibre. Tongue searching out food systematically by size. First, the biggest pieces then onto smaller turning everything into mush and I become involuntarily prompted to swallow the now crushed, moistened, and ready for digestion food.

Now, does that just sound like I bit into an apple? It feels like magic when you really take the time to be there. There is a brilliant concert of conscious and unconscious at work. There is body and mind beautifully dancing to in the simplicity of caring for self by way of feeding and consuming, digesting and expelling. I would say that's a whole ass experience in one bite. Just imagine how much of your life you can apply that to!

Meditate without Meditating Activities

1. Eating

2. Walking

3. Showering/bathing

4. Cooking

5. Looking

6. Waiting

7. Sitting

8. Breathing

9. Hearing

10. Feeling

Here are a few more:

1. Reaching/grabbing

2. Brushing teeth

3. Washing face

4. Creating organic art

5. Journaling

Final Thoughts on Meditating without Meditation

You can apply this to any part of your life. The true benefit of this is when you integrate it into your daily schedule often enough to make it automated. Once it becomes integrated in that way, you will no longer have to make time to be the observer . . . you will have become your own lives observer. And that, my friend, is true freedom!