Meditation Can Get Murky
Today I got affirmation of a suspicion. Times that I delved more deeply into spirituality resulted in greater challenges rather than greater peace. After experiencing this twice I started to wonder if it is just part of the process.
While listening to Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change on CD this morning she talked about the power of meditation to give us answers we never considered, peace we never knew existed, and perspective we never thought possible. She used the analogy of putting a dirty dish into soapy water and letting it soak. Encrusted food starts to soften then eventually rises off the dish. With meditation we let our spirits and minds soak in the presence of god. Marianne went on to say that sometimes in the process of soaking the dish the water gets murky as the dish is getting clean and the same thing can be expected with meditation. Sometimes when we wash away our ego and preconditioned ideas in meditation we may go through a murky, unexpected phase. We may not like it and it may be uncomfortable, but it is part of the transformation.