How To Meditate = Losing The Monkey Mind

I have been meaning to add this info to my website, but I do not know how to do that. Soooooo, we have this blog :) As I have said previously, I have listen'd, learned and read many different ways of dealing with Monkey Mind ( scattered thoughts while trying to meditate ). You should consider that there ARE many different ways to deal with this and they are ALL good...for someone. There is NO 1 way to deal with, learn, or DO anything including Meditation, but there are a few ways that WILL work for you ( or in this case ME ;). All you need to do is FIND the ways that work for YOU. The first way that I found works for me, is based on a ritual that was done at my son's catholic Grammer school in Burbank California......and for the life of me I can not remember WHY it was done :(

Every so often the school would assemble ALL of the children AND invite the parents to a day when they released helium filled ballons ( hopefully they do NOT do that anymore = The environment doesn't need it ). As I was sitting on a cushion one day trying to let the scattered thought GO, my thoughts went back to watching those ballons. Hundreds of blue ballons just drifting up and away. The thing that stuck was......away! I decided to try and imagine ALL of my scattered thoughts as ballons......and I was watching them just drift AWAY.......

Somedays I would even name the ballons. Worry, Anger, Stress, Tension, Sadness, whatever.....and let THAT feeling just.......float away, and then I would go back to my breathing. When another thought comes up....let it drift away.......and then breathe.

Sooooooo, you might want to try this. I hope it works for you. If it does GREAT! If it doesn't, don't worry....something will! More to come, soon.