“Total meditation means to bring presence to every experience,” Chopra explains. “When you bring presence to any experience, it becomes beautiful and it also becomes very loving… When you bring presence to an object, it suddenly appears beautiful when you designate what the object is.” These could be simple objects which we use every day such as a phone or cup of coffee. ‘Total Meditation’ can help us deal with change as it can put objects and people in a positive light. Objects become ‘a piece of art’ while bringing presence to a person can bring ‘love’.
“Total meditation means to bring presence to every experience.”
Let go of experiences
“If you hold on to your breath, you will suffocate. If you hold on to any experience, you will suffer because it is of the nature of arising and subsiding,” Chopra says. One thing you can do to help you to let go of your experiences is to try a breathing exercise. If you’d like guidance on how to do this, listen to the first five minutes of any episode of The Music & Meditation Podcast to be led through a short but effective guided breathing exercise. “Let go and flow,” says Chopra. “By being a silent witness of your breath.” By letting go we can evolve with change by facing the next chapter in our life without burdening ourselves with previous experiences.
