Sonam J. Lama

Category: Meditation

  • When Your Mind is Flustered, Sit and Meditate

    As a writer, we sometimes have writer’s block.

    Sometimes we have no ideas, other times we have too many to choose from.

    In these moments, when my mind is racing, I always sit and meditate.

    I sit, close my eyes, and just focus on my breathe.

    When my mind wanders, I bring it back to the present moment.

    I simply slow down, I listen to the sounds around me, the sensations I’m feeling, and wonder in this miracle called life.

    You see in our modern world, we’re always rushing, focusing on money, motion, and achieving the next thing.

    This is good. But sometimes we simply need a reset, calm our monkey mind, slow down, catch up with ourselves, become aligned and back into flow.

    It’s almost as if our mind, body, and soul need to become aligned once again.

    I feel deep meditation and being in flow during our meditation allows us to return back to center, become grounded and gives our mind, body and soul the quiet, silence, and recharge it’s been screaming for.

    In fact, I just came out of my 20 minute and 1 second meditation and my mind, body and souls feels much more calm, aligned, and a deep sense of relaxation.

    We often feel meditation is a waste of time, but it’s actually the opposite.

    If you do it right, you will feel much more relaxed, achieve 10 to 100 times more, and be able to flow tithe the treacherous waters of life.

    Try it.

    And remember, when your mind is flustered, sit and meditate.

  • Be Your Own Best Friend (Be kind to yourself)

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    This year has been the hardest year of my life.

    Separating from my wife has been heartbreaking, devastating and the most challenging ordeal I’ve ever had to experience.

    However, through it all, I kept repeating the mantra, “be kind to yourself.”

    You see, I am my own best friend. I always have been and always will.

    You and I both have had so much sh*t happen to us. It’s truly a miracle that we are still here.

    Life has many ups and downs.

    The one truth is that you are always there. You’ve seen and experienced everything.

    “No matter where you go there you are.”

    Through the separation from my wife, I was visited by loneliness, silence, sadness and loss.

    I had to be my own best friend.

    I could have wallowed and cried in a fetal position for hours, days or months on end.

    However, I truly know the preciousness of life and time.

    I knew deep down life will go on, I will be well again and ultimately, nothing matters.

    So with that awareness, I began to fix my sleep routine, my hygiene, get a super handsome haircut, eat the freshest, most nutritious foods, workout hard, dive back into my passions, work on my business, work on things I love and rekindle the most important relationship, which is with myself.

    Look, I fully understand how difficult life can get.

    In fact, life can become downright hopeless at times.

    But, always remember, during your darkest hour, during your darkest moments, be your own best friend and be kind to yourself.

    With love,
    Sonam