Tidbit Tip: Living With Less In The Mind

Yesterday, a daily meditation from Headspace, really hit home for me. As a self-proclaimed, minimalist, I like to think of myself as doing really well with living with what I have. However, yesterday’s meditation reminded me that monks and nuns, real professionals in the art of meditation usually live with even less and are, more importantly, usually more content.

I realize that even in my “minimalist” ways with what I buy, my mind is still in the maximalist viewpoint, constantly wanting more, more, more. This isn’t necessarily what I want physically but it usually is how I want to change me to be more this, more that, never content in the present with who I am. This made me think of a quote I also saw yesterday, that “Real girls aren’t perfect, and perfect girls aren’t real”. This also made me reflect on myself. I often look at a movie or book with a character that seems so perfect and I often wish I could just be like them. However, I usually forget that they aren’t real and that is why they seem so perfect. No real person has everything perfect in their lives and if they did, that would actually be pretty boring. In reflecting on this, I also thought about the meditation about living with less. Maybe this meditation was a sign for me, telling me that though I might not have a lot of material things, my mind is overflowing with baggage. Telling me that I need to work on letting go of striving for perfection, finding calm in my mind without having everything I want to have both mentally and physically, and learning to be content in my current state of myself. Just like how monks and nuns live with the bare minimum and still find the beauty in life, I need to learn to live with the bare minimum in my mind, finding the beauty in who I am.

Thanks for reading!

-Emily💕