Meditation: How to Reinvent, Redesign, and Control Life Through Mental Mastery
In a world full of noise and distraction, it is challenging to hold oneself together and let the world adjust. One thing is definite:
Too often, you’ll battle with your mind — trying to tame it from wandering from one thought to another, thinking, worrying, and wondering about the past and the future.
Occasionally, you try to pull yourself together, but it appears insurmountable.
You start to realize that problem concentrating isn’t just a kid thing. It is in the adult world, too— preventing adults from directing focus to what they need to do and spare some time for fun.
But at the bottom of your heart, you desire the opposite.
You aspire to master your thoughts, release worn-out life patterns and commit to pursuing your dreams even when you feel scared and insecure.
You covet to be mentally present to see, hear, feel, and care about the world around you.
You aren’t the only one.
The struggle for mental mastery is universal. Nearly everyone in the world battle to domesticate their thoughts.
The biggest problem, though:
Life itself is a series of fluttering distractions. Daily life appears to be a fight against focus.
Granted, you can’t help wondering…
Is there a tool to intervene and open doors to reinvent and redesign one’s self ?
And more importantly, is there a way to allow yourself to move with the event of life, hold on to your memories but let go of the past, plan for the future but openly meet whatever arises?
Meditation can be one of the tools.
Meditation At Its Core
Most people call meditation peace, emotional freedom, serenity, self-awareness, liberation or non-attachment, and a self-mastery tool.
Others call it an instrument for self-awareness — that it makes them aware of what is going on in their mind, enabling them to direct their attention as desired.
Many others say it builds fearlessness, confidence, and inner strength, keeping them at ease when having hard conversations, receiving heavy blows from life, or dealing with difficult people.
Yet, others say it enables them to get control of their lives, experience less anxiety and reduced worry. They say it gives them the power to battle their inner demons.
And with all the talk in the meditation world, it is easy to get the key principle:
Meditation can help us control our thoughts — the most powerful tool that makes us human.
Meditation can allow us to tap into our deep-seated desire and belief, enabling us to balance our body, mind, and soul.
Meditation allows us to observe what’s happening to our minds rather than being reactionaries. That way, you can discern and regulate your thoughts.
In Simple Terms, Meditation is…
Using the mind to discern the mind.
It is a means of controlling all the levels of ourselves and finally experiencing the center of consciousness within.
This begs the question:
How Can Meditation Help You Reinvent, Redesign, and Take Control of Your Life?
When meditating, you tell the mind to focus on the present, which sets you into the cockpit of your thoughts.
In the mindfulness state, you can:
- Trace what you’re anxious about
- Identify and release stuck negative energy
- Train your imagination and visualization skills.
This gives room for tackling priorities, leaving out what’s least significant.
Instead of being at the mercy of your thoughts, you become intimate with them and can plan how to work on them.
How To Madetitate Easily Today
When talking about meditation, the immediate picture that paints your mind is a monk on a mountain — seated on both legs, eyes closed and spread on thighs.
Yes, that’s one way to meditate, but it isn’t the only one.
There are a gazillion ways to meditate, but we want to focus on the easiest three you can start with right now.
1. Explore Your World
Walk through a beautiful, calming environment — whether a real place or a fictional one.
When you’re there, allow your world to unfold slowly rather than jumping from one scenery to the next too quickly. This lets you:
- Improve focus and creativity
- Develop imagination skills
- Calm yourself down
Frequent such exploration soothes the mind and expands imagination in a subtly powerful way.
2. Picture Yourself Winning
Visualize anything you want in life. Imagine what it would be like to be:
- Free
- Unstoppable
- Confident in environments that would otherwise strip your confidence.
Science says that your thoughts influence your reality and shape your brain for better or worse.
You’re better off using your thought to shape the best world possible you can imagine.
Immerse yourself in an ideal world where you’re winning and feel what it would be like to touch and be part of these winning realities. Feel your body with exciting sensations and emotions.
The more you condition your mind to these images, they’ll start painting themselves into your day.
The more you do this and associate the feelings with these images, the clearer they’ll be in your subconscious and the more likely you will subconsciously act to bring them into your life for real.
The more you reinforce visions in your mind within a successful context, the more your self-image will improve.
Not because any magic will happen, no. But you will reinforce your self-belief.
After all, if you cannot see yourself with the things you want in life and feel and behave like the person you want to be, you’ll not believe in it, and you’ll struggle to make it a reality.
3. Visualize Objects Deeply
There is a significant relationship between eye position and the dominant hemisphere of the brain. According to NIH (National Library of Medicine), your eye position can:
- Change your mood
- Alter how you experience the world
- Determine focus levels
Another study by PubMed Central says that eye micro-movement is an excellent marker of mind-wandering. So keeping your eye still can improve your focus.
One of the best ways to train mental focus is to visualize an object at a time — either in your head or a real object around you.
The practice will help you:
- Manage anxiety
- Rewire your focus
- Create a distinct creative skill
- Create a singularity of focus
Meditation Won’t Solve Your Problems — But It’ll Help You Face Them Heads On
While meditation practice will leave you feeling good — momentarily more relaxed, calm, and accepting — it doesn’t solve your problems.
It makes more sense to think of meditation the same way you think about working out. When you do it you feel good, but you don't get many immediately tangible results.
However, when you meditate you’ll respond more calmly to stressful situations, which improves the odds of conquering your challenges.
