Having a mentor for my mindfulness and meditation journey has been an incredibly beneficial and optimizing experience.
I feel blessed to be working with a student of Tara Brach.
I feel a sense of support and comfort that I hadn't experienced prior to the mentorship. My mentor guides me through my meditation practices and teaches and reminds me of Dharma.
For months, I have been without a spiritual teacher. During these past couple of weeks, I felt that it was necessary to finally have one in my life. Buddha speaks about the importance of a Sangha (a spiritual community). This Sangha creates and opportunity for one to grow and expand within a circle of support and comfort.
At this moment, I have extended my meditation sessions to thirty minutes. I have always been used to a 15-20 minute session, but my mentor recommended that I take it further. She explained to me that our brain waves are still usually extremely active around the 15-20 minute mark and that the stillness during the 30min mark will be beneficial for me.
I told her that I was scared of extending it to 30minutes.
"May I ask what you are afraid of?"
"I am afraid that I will hit a period of deep darkness, or that I will go crazy and hit a dark wall that I have been avoiding."
"And will your avoidance help in anyway?"
"No, it would not help to avoid it."
She also recommended that if you are in a period of meditation and you experience traumatic past experiences that are too difficult, that it is usually beneficial to stop the practice and ask for guidance and support. Sometimes, meditation can bring up difficult experiences that we have repressed. During these times, we can always come out of the experience, lye down, do some yoga poses, call for support, take a walk or anything else that helps during that time.
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