A Conversation About Contemplation

Contemplative practice is a structured practice without structure. This is an inward practice which allows you to connect, discover, and centralize your mind. When you're more centered, you have more access to that which is outside of you, including the unknown. Today, I'll share some contemplative principles - how to move through the act of contemplating and how to get into a more centered space when we are feeling off-balance.

Contemplation works, although the result isn't what you might have imagined. Working in the opposite direction of planning things out, contemplation is a state of being. You're in a bold state of allowing connection. This gives you the ability to connect on levels you can't possibly imagine.

Without the ability to connect, it's challenging to come to a place of genuine compassion for yourself or anyone else. Connecting gives us the ability to tap into our emotions and tells us where we are at any given moment.

Compassion is a level above empathy and clearly conscious levels above sympathy. Contemplative practice allows us to connect on a humble level. Compassion prompts an awakening and stabilizing feeling in your body. It changes the way you view the world and your language. Your perceptual lens change and so, too, does your perspective.

Listen in to find out why your negative thoughts will take you in the wrong direction in your life, how negative thoughts leave distractive, destructive chatter in your mind, and why nature is one of the best places to have contemplative practice.