The nourishing power of meditation

Get comfortable with being alone, it will empower you – Jonathan Tropper

Alone, not lonely. Similar words, but most definitely different worlds apart. Life is a journey full of ebbs and flows. Most of us at some point in our lives will experience loneliness.

It comes in many complex layers such as, for example situational, social isolation or emotional. From experiences such as a new job, staying in a hotel by yourself, to needing help to complete a task to more intense moments such as undergoing surgery and being away from family, to feeling lonely in a crowded room.

During the COVID pandemic I found the first lockdown extremely hard, and I did experience loneliness, I’m sure many of you can resonate with this. Understanding why loneliness was such a strong emotion for me during lockdown is a process.

How Meditation Can Help

Meditation allows you to sit with and facing emotions can be overwhelming or blissful. Despite this, it always feels beneficial to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

It can beautifully connect you into a contentment of being with yourself, as it can bring you back to your breath, your heart, your home, and in times when we face adversity there really is ‘no place like home’.

By gifting yourself time for aloneness you may find it beautifully heightens your awareness of the interconnectivity between everything and with practice it can become a place you can always go to and instantly feel secure, calm, and nourished.

Learning to be comfortable sitting alone with yourself takes time, dedication, and a willingness to surrender to your emotions, if you can try do this, meditation can be a beautifully, fulfilling journey of self-discovery like no other.

It empowers you with a strength to be content when you’re alone, an ease to appreciating all that surrounds you.

As you gently peel back the layers to find what you knew was there all along, that everything you need, is already inside of you. Love all of you, every complex layer.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you – Rumi

Meditation

Find stillness within, quiet

your mind and embrace a

moment of peace.

Listen to your breath, feel

the rhythm of your heart

and bring awareness to your body.

Ground down into the earth,

can you feel the connection?

Thoughts may come,

acknowledge them and let them go.

Always coming back to the breath,

your heart. Your home.

Be kind and go with the flow.

Jo