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"If you wish to fly high, beyond the incessant dialogue of the mind, Mindfulness is your path" (SCW)
What is meditation?
Meditation is a secular path suitable for anyone (from children to the elderly) who wishes to improve their life experience.
We often think of meditation as something that takes us elsewhere, to a situation of calm and tranquility.
It is true that meditation can calm, BUT IT IS NOT ANOTHER FORM OF RELAXATION. Meditation is not a hot bath among scented candles and incense. Doing meditation means mindfully embracing all mental states, without preferring one over the other. It is an invitation to go beyond the often very superficial association, negative event = bad, positive event = good. We have all experienced negative events that later turned out to be important turning points and successes. Meditation therefore invites us to suspend immediate judgment.
Mindfulness (or mindfulness meditation) confronts things: sometimes the sea is stormy, or the weather is bad. Our mood is also as unpredictable as the sea. Mindfulness teaches us to recognize that when the sea is rough and the waves are high, our boat may be in motion and we cannot flatten those waves: mindfulness helps, therefore, to have a good rudder for storms, but it does not deny the existence of storms or make them magically disappear.
If the term mindfulness generally refers to meditation meets psychology, the term imaginal mindfulness refers to meditation meets imaginal psychology, that is, the psychology initiated in the West by C.G. Jung (with analytic psychology) and later reworked by the American psychoanalyst, essayist and philosopher James Hillman (with archetypal psychology). In the imaginal view, the body and the world are internal to the psyche. The paradigm considers the body no longer in functional and perceptual reality, but rather as a "symbol."
With imaginal mindfulness we work on dissolving attachments and fears that prevent us from living in truth. Imaginal Meditation practices guide one to perceive that matter does not exist as objective reality and that everything is dream and image.
Imaginal mindfulness teaches us to elevate disturbances, problems, discomforts, to listen to them as voices of the soul calling to an inner journey into the underworld, the chthonic dimension, to restore our wild energies.
