In the practice of meditation, we use our non-judgmental awareness to get in touch with our feelings emotions and what’s going on in our bodies without adding our narratives or dramas to it. We just see what comes up.
When the great root of faith and the great ball of doubt are present, a great determination will arise. Great determination is a strong resolve that wells up from the bottom of our gut and spurs us on. If there already is an innate belief that we ourselves are intrinsically awake; we only need to set on the path of discovering what is within us .
To be alive is to be present here and now with what is. Meditation helps us in staying grounded in the present moment. With time and practice, meditation will open a path towards what is to be alive - to be present and full aware in play with mystery and beauty and love of life. With time it might make you realise that we live on a very strange little speck of rock in a very remote corner of the universe and it is this rock that allows us to be alive. Cherish it.