Great explanation, profound truth about the madness and insanity of today's Hell on Earth: distraction indeed everywhere, the media loves is, it feeds the sheep.

As I jumped out of my Hell in an instance and had a clear and unconditional trust in my own intuition, a long period of continuous meditation was ahead of it.

At first I was aware that what I did before (my Hell on earth) wasn't what I wanted (I recognised the carrot in front of me) so I committed myself to structurally get up an hour earlier in the morning and meditate before the madness would begin again.
The structural half hour study of Life itself and a half hour meditation, where I wanted to be conscience of the silence between thoughts, I based upon the breathing from the lower abdomen, as I learned in my Aikido lessons.

Whilst growing towards the point of silence (wasn't easy, I had to break trough the 21 days of getting rid of old distractional habits), I became aware of the chase my thoughts thought they were running away from: my mind in charge of my life exposed as the worthy advisor trying to run the business, my business.

What I learned from my structural meditational past is that either I'm controlled by my thoughts (Hell) or my thoughts are controlled by me (Heaven) and at a certain point I could choose consciously for the latter and a great journey began.

I don't meditate structurally any more but get up at 6 in the morning and praise my choice for ME and the new day with new changes: great new things to learn. When I feel the stress building up, I can call upon my silence into a split second (I just watch my breathing in situ) and jump up into a meditational status. It's without loss of awareness, in fact my awareness became much greater after my awakening a year ago.

My state of mind (SoulPathFound) is so secure that a backfall to Hell is absolutely not the case. The brightness of my reconnection to the Centre is one of unconditional commitment to myself, not my egoic part but the good in me, the egoic part back into the role as a worthy advisor in negative matters since my Soul doe not know what negativity is it can lean on the experience of my ego.

The great fun of it all is that life is NOT about suffering, it's about JOY, daily joy and fulfilment. All the rest is a great big illusion I project myself in. It's all in me and you, on the threshold, right in front of you and a split second away.

I always looked for happiness in external things until I started to look inside and found the biggest trophy of all: where ever I go I'm at my happy home because I disconnected myself from external identity confirmation.

Meditation is explicitly undoubtfully the kick-start towards a great life, all it requires from you is commitment to trust yourself because you are going to watch over the self build wall of your ComfortZone, your Jail. The mind tells you is Hell out there, but the world your mind, your ego creates is Hell itself, out there is a big Universal space called Heaven, a big peacefull ocean of love, silence and knowledge you can plug in to.

Thanx Kip", for posting your great explanation.

arjen
LR7