Now About Meditation

Meditation is not only there to achieve altered states of consciousness or to send us into emotional highs, or raise our vibration.  Meditation is there to  produce awareness in us and it is much more than something you practice for yourself. It is something you do to benefit both yourself and others through by bringing awareness into your actions.  Because only through awareness of the consequences of our positive, neutral and negative actions and what gives rise to them can we end the cycle of violence in ourselves each other and the world as a whole. 

Now is the time to act with compassion, kindness and cooperation. For if we cooperate and act with an embodied compassionate-kindness towards each other, we will surely get through this and emerge stronger as a collective humanity. https://claytonmicallef.com/golden-rule-and-the-coronavirus-compassion-key/

When practising mindfulness , we cultivate and strengthen awareness enough to take a step back and not merely react. With  mindful awareness , we can insert a gap or a pause between us and what we experience so that we are no longer carried away by our reactive patterns. In that little gap, there exist the freedom to respond in a fresh and less predetermined way.