Habits of the mind keep us cloistered. We are, in a funny sort of way, secure or at home in these familiar patterns of the mind; we run them again and again and again.
Creative living is leaving these deeply worn grooves of thought, emotion, and action and developing new ones, pioneering new and different ways of mind and body.
Through meditation, we gradually learn to let go to and trust a thought-free state where the constant chatter of “me” dissolves.
We start to see our habits of thought as just that, and rather arbitrary–what we happened to be exposed to again and again and again conditioning our neural synapses to fire over time in certain ways.
Meditation can give us the freedom to let go of these and explore, and truly begin to change.
The Every Day Yogi 