A Meditation on Sitting
with Tracey

When you sit, whether the intention is simply to sit, or to engage with what you might label, meditation, thoughts are the first thing on your mind. Or perhaps getting comfortable in your body is the first tug on your consciousness, so getting comfortable in your body in order to sit is a good thing. Then, you notice the thoughts on your mind. How absolutely normal!

Sitting can be a practice with its own energetic rewards. It's a beautiful, intentional way to collect yourself. It is a way to perceive how you are doing, or not doing, in your body. Sitting can give you a lot of feedback. Learning to sit comfortably can be a cultivated act. Sitting, as a practice, can bring about an atmosphere that taps into our senses and tunes us into the nature of silence. A silence that contains multitudes. Perhaps don't make silence your goal, and let your sitting be an opportunity to place your awareness on what's going on when you just stop moving and become more still.

And those thoughts? You can follow them where they go or simply watch the river of thought flow. Sitting can bring a radical shift of perception, self-reflection, even direction. But I suppose, I'll keep those thoughts to myself.