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IN-THE-MOMENT MEDITATION Jon Kabat-Zinn of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the

Univ. of Mass. Med. Ctr. believes that the most pervasive misuse of meditation

occurs when people strive or grasp for results.

 

" One of the cardinal principles of meditation is that you're not actually trying

to change anything, including your state of mind. You're not trying to get from

a bad place to a good place, or from a tense, stressful place to a relaxed,

pleasurable place. "

 

He says, " Allow yourself to be completely in the present moment with whatever

comes up. . .If you step back and simply watch with a witnessing-type

consciousness, then all the tensions and anxieties tend to dissolve. " -- from

The Townsend Letter.

 

This is the practice Bev and I follow. You don't try to 'fix' anything -- just

letting everything be as it is -- as you observe what is processing - moment to

moment. You might call it., " Accessing the Meditator. " Getting to your real

self.

 

One concentrates on the 'now,' focuses on the moment possibly to the elimination

of anything else - the guilts of the past, the fears of the future. We look at,

and let go of, thoughts as they arise, and we get to the openness, the love that

is the core of us all.

 

To say that the result is a feeling of homeostasis is almost too clinical, but

it's true. That's what we feel when 'all the tensions and anxieties tend to

dissolve.'

 

Jerry M.

 

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