Comments on: Don’t Believe Anything You Think (in Meditation) http://www.meditationoasis.com/2008/12/15/dont-believe-anything-you-think-in-meditation/ Companion to the Meditation Oasis Podcast Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary http://www.meditationoasis.com/2008/12/15/dont-believe-anything-you-think-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Mary Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:27:43 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=627#comment-1171 You are welcome, Angie. Yes, it is amazing how much can shift with one concept like that. The right words, heard at just the right time, can be very powerful! You are welcome, Angie. Yes, it is amazing how much can shift with one concept like that. The right words, heard at just the right time, can be very powerful!

]]> By: Angie Dodson http://www.meditationoasis.com/2008/12/15/dont-believe-anything-you-think-in-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 Angie Dodson Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:26:03 +0000 http://www.meditationoasis.com/?p=627#comment-1168 I enjoyed your blog post 'Don’t Believe Anything You Think (in Meditation)'. It's amazing how just a few simple words read or overheard can change the way one thinks about how one chooses to live. Along with your podcasts, I've been listening to those of Dr. Eric Maisel, who presents a series called 'Your Purpose-Centred Life'. In one podcast he says something to this effect: 'The only meaning is the one you choose to create.' That simple statement changed the way I approach life. I realized that in all facets of life, we can choose to create meaning or choose not to. And this way of thinking applies to meditation too. No randomly occurring thought during meditation needs to have any meaning. We can choose to hold on the thought and create meaning or we can choose to let it go, let it drift away with all other thoughts, and return to the focus of meditation. By the way, thanks so much for your guided meditations. They've really helped me. - Angie I enjoyed your blog post ‘Don’t Believe Anything You Think (in Meditation)’. It’s amazing how just a few simple words read or overheard can change the way one thinks about how one chooses to live.

Along with your podcasts, I’ve been listening to those of Dr. Eric Maisel, who presents a series called ‘Your Purpose-Centred Life’. In one podcast he says something to this effect: ‘The only meaning is the one you choose to create.’

That simple statement changed the way I approach life. I realized that in all facets of life, we can choose to create meaning or choose not to. And this way of thinking applies to meditation too. No randomly occurring thought during meditation needs to have any meaning. We can choose to hold on the thought and create meaning or we can choose to let it go, let it drift away with all other thoughts, and return to the focus of meditation.

By the way, thanks so much for your guided meditations. They’ve really helped me.

- Angie

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