Describe your ‘zen space’
Describe your ‘zen space.’ Your universe. Your balance. What place is the ideal ‘base’ for you specifically that which when you are in it, without any thoughts, distractions, temptations, or otherwise that may pull you out of that place makes you feel very calm, peaceful, and content? That ‘base’ is your ‘zen space.’ Go back to that and live from that space.
For example: From me personally “I am a piece of the whole, a part of the universe as it is. Created when I needed to be, with all of my talents, traits, and unique qualities. I am a source of expression, creativity, inspiration, and energy, that loves outwardly, creates magnificently by allowing the force to run through me naturally, and there is nothing that can pull me away from my true center— only false, diluted, and ‘not-Self’ things can try to fool me out of my zen space. I calmly bring my mind, soul, and spirit back to that center, and feel at home. At peace.”
It’s different for each of us, although many similarities exist. It is completely void of all negative energy, bad-ness, craving, worry, anxiety, sadness, over excitement or otherwise… It is your personal mental ’base.’ Protected by virtue of how you were created, and your most natural state of being and it is from there you must always remember to emanate from. Your personal and natural ‘zen space.’
Sit calmly without any judgement or negative emotions. Put them aside for the moment. Take a few slow, long, deep, and peaceful breaths. Gently close your eyes and feel deeply this space. What feels right to you? Imagine it. Feel it. See it. Are you in a beautiful natural setting, in the woods, on a mountain or island? Or are you in a city, amidst people? Are you big and strong, and simple and calmly flexible? Think of yoru setting, your space, your environment around you in this space.
Next, imagine very softly your unique gifts. Who you really are. What you express to the universe. It’s very gentle, very simple, and very unique. You are the pinnacle an essence of that— and that which you share with the universe. It’s all positive, and flowing forward. It loves, helps, creates, and helps others. It is a part of the whole, and what and who YOU are.
This— is your zen space. And it is from here that you will always remember to emanate from. As created by the creator.
So now, you will notice that certain thoughts pop up. Often negative. “I feel sad, I feel worried, anxious, mad, angry, self conscious, etc…” And how these thoughts (which have no physical reality— only energy) start to almost magnetically pull you away from your center. This then makes you feel “not your Self.” Well— that’s because you are lost! You are off-center. Remember, those thoughts, those feelings, those emotions are not you. They are simply energies that take your mind away from your real You. The center is where you live, and where your optimal performance derives. It’s from there you always must flow.
Most children get this. They naturally possess it. They are unhindered by the millions of interactions, thoughts, events, happenings, and otherwise through our lives… They live like nature. Much like all the natural world. The plants, tress, flowers, animals… they all “know” what to do, and do what they know. Only humans and their minds are capable of thinking their way out of their true nature. And it is with awareness, mindfulness, discipline, concentration, and effort that we change this. At times difficult, especially in the beginning. But it becomes much more flowing and natural feeling. And then you begin to help lead others back to their nature.