From interview with Caroline Myss,

How are we going to get our focus into present time? Here again, what we are talking about is a constant, constant discipline, isn’t it? It becomes your discipline. Every time you are aware of yourself slipping you call your spirit back, you call your attention back, call your focus back. It is a constant discipline. It’s as simple as that. You make it your discipline.

It’s quite an elegant spiritual discipline and a very healthy one, because you live it every moment of the day. You’re constantly calling your spirit back. And, it helps so much because it makes you aware of how easily you negotiate the presence of your spirit in your body, how easily something can take it out.

The other day I was coming back on the airplane and somebody stepped in front of a person as everybody was exiting the plane, cutting someone off, and the person who was cut off verbally pulled out a knife. For something as simple as that, an action as simple as that, this person probably lost his spirit for 48 hours through being angry and wanting to belt that guy.

When an event like that happens do you really think that person has the strength and stamina to pull his spirit back. Do people really think and expect that a person who has that severe a lack of control over his spirit could command his spirit to heal the body? No.

This is what we have to understand – we’re a long way from being able to ‘create our own reality’ and heal our body with visualization. The rare people who can do it qualify for a book contract.

We are so unaccustomed to this incredible discipline of saying, ‘Wait a minute here, this situation is causing me to get angry and judge and I’m not going to let that happen. I’m going to take a deep breath and the answer is no, I’m not responding to this.’

That becomes a living discipline and it’s hard, but that’s how you do it. When students tell me that they meditate, I’ll ask them where. They’ll say they have this quiet room and this music and incense and candles. I ask if that helps and when they say yes I tell them that if you have to make your external environment do the meditating for you by making it so peaceful and tranquil then you don’t know what you’re doing. If you really want to learn meditation you put yourself on the busiest street corner you can, surrounded by the worst noises on the planet and then tell your spirit not to hear it. Now you’re meditating.

Caroline Myss ~ website: www.myss.com
Full interview at: www.iloveulove.com