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Why Should You Make Dynamic Meditation Your Natural Lifestyle 24 by 7? - Introduction
Meditation Beyond the Cushion: Bringing Awareness Into Everyday Life
What if meditation isn’t something you switch on for a few minutes and then leave behind when you get up?
In this episode of *Skeletal Leap*, I question the familiar image of meditation as a seated practice and propose a more expansive idea: meditation is a way to grow awareness—and awareness can accompany us throughout the day.
Many people associate meditation with sitting cross-legged, concentrating on a thought or mantra, or watching the mind wander.
Those practices may be familiar, but I argue that the posture itself can distract us from a more important question: how do we become more aware of what is happening right now?
The episode’s central idea is that awareness should be dynamic, not confined to a quiet, isolated session.
Life’s ordinary activities—walking, working, listening, and interacting—offer opportunities to notice the world as it unfolds.
Rather than treating meditation as a temporary break from daily life, I invite you to bring mindful attention into daily life itself.
From Autopilot to Fresh Perception
I describe how easily we rely on memory when facing familiar situations. We catch an initial glimpse of what is happening, then allow past experiences and reactions to fill in the rest.
The mind, in effect, starts “computing” the present before we have fully perceived it.
That shortcut can turn a response into a reaction. Instead of engaging with what is actually happening, we respond according to what we expect based on an earlier experience.
The episode encourages us to notice this habit and use our senses more fully—to see, hear, and experience each moment anew, even when it resembles something we have encountered before.
As I put it, “We are not computers, we are basically perceivers.” The distinction is an invitation to slow down internally, not necessarily to stop moving.
Rather than quickly deciding whether an experience is useful, familiar, or worth our attention, we can allow ourselves to encounter it more completely.
A Practice Woven into Life
This approach challenges the idea that meditation must be a separate task, performed in a specific posture and for a set amount of time.
I suggest that such a session can become a box to tick—something that makes us feel we have completed our practice, even as we return to habitual ways of living.
Instead, I ask you to consider awareness as an ongoing practice: notice perceptions, become conscious of the mind’s responses, and meet daily events with attention.
The aim is not to withdraw from ordinary life, but to experience it with greater presence.
The episode makes a compelling case for taking mindfulness beyond the cushion.
Whether or not you agree with every claim, its questions are worth sitting with: Are you seeing what is happening now, or reacting to what happened before?
Are you experiencing the moment, or rushing to categorize it?
Listen to the full episode for my perspective on awareness, habit, and the possibility of living with a meditative state of mind—throughout the day, in the midst of everyday life.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
(00:00:00) - Introduction to Skeletal Leap and Meditation
(00:00:39) - Misconceptions About Meditation
(00:02:18) - The Problem with Sitting Posture and Ego
(00:04:03) - Awareness as Dynamic, Not Static
(00:05:04) - Perception, Memory, and the Mind as Computer
(00:06:36) - Being vs Having: Living Life Anew
(00:08:22) - Meditative Living 24/7 and Closing Thoughts
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Why Should You Make Dynamic Meditation Your Natural Lifestyle 24 by 7? - Transcript
“You will be rewarded with the insight that only the optimum awareness can equip you with, it being an exclusive human potential to be achieved in order to live life to its fullest!”
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.
Skeletal Leap transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
Today’s episode will tell you about meditation as a way of living life 24 by 7, though very few people really know that meditation is simply a process to increase the awareness to realize our optimum brain potential.
Meditation is one of the most misinformed activities throughout the world. As an exclusive human potential, it has already assumed the status of being the only way to bring peace to the mind.
The general perception of the masses about meditation is quite flawed up. Ask anyone on road what they think meditation is and more than often they will tell you it means sitting and concentrating on one single thought, mantra, image, sound or symbol.
The ones who think they know a little bit more would tell you to sit down but not to concentrate on one single element and rather let the mind roam around wherever it does along with keeping witnessing the same with as much awareness as you can.
But everyone has a picture of meditation in mind of something that is done while sitting in a specific cross-legged posture. So much so that these cross-legged postures have become synonymous with meditation and represent meditation as an icon.
Meditation is a process of increasing one’s awareness but hardly do people really know for sure how to actually start doing that once you have sat down in a cross-legged posture. So, different people keep doing different kinds of mental activities while getting initiated in the discipline named meditation.
How does one increase one’s awareness?
It’s not at all a spiritual question to answer that meditation is traditionally linked with. It is considered to take you to the spiritual realm away from the mundane activities of daily life.
Nothing can be farther from being true!
The word spirit from which the notion of the spiritual realm has taken shape is very much a part of all the mundane activities of daily life.
That’s why when an emphasis is put on sitting in the cross-legged or any other formal posture in order to do meditation, it kills the very basic insight into what meditation should be done like.
The idea of sitting for meditation makes people take it as a mental exercise to do for a limited duration of time, get relieved from stress, accumulate some mental peace that they are otherwise lacking and then jump back into their habitual, unhealthy and unaware ways of living life like they always have been doing.
Doing meditation like this rather harms than do any good simply because it inculcates a new ego in their minds that they have accumulated a lot of good karma and they are a better human being than those who don’t sit to do meditation and hence are wasting their lives.
How is accumulating good karma any different from accumulating money in their bank accounts?
So in my opinion the sitting posture should be discontinued as far as doing meditation is concerned.
Then which one to adopt if not the sitting posture? That’s what people will ask!
No posture, I say.
Postures are only there for a limited duration of time to build an ego of having done your meditation for the day!
It’s funny.
Awareness, and not meditation, is the exclusive human potential. Meditation is simply a process to increase this awareness to realize our optimum human potential.
We need to stop fancying and glamorizing meditation as a pious activity in itself. If it doesn’t help increase the canvas of our awareness, it’s not of any use to us.
How does one increase one’s awareness then?
Not by sitting cross-legged in a meditation posture at least!
Increasing awareness has to be a dynamic process rather than a static one. We don’t need to sit in isolation away from all the action of life and make mind static.
We need to be aware of our mind’s dynamic process in the very midst of all the mundane activities of our daily life 24 by 7.
Awareness comes from perceiving the world around.
We perceive the world around us through our five senses as well as through our responses to those perceptions.
We don’t use all our senses to their optimum and hence do not respond to the said perceptions in our totality.
In the absence of the optimum awareness, we become habituated to get an initial glimpse of an event and then just stop using our senses further to perceive the same in its totality anew. Rather we fabricate the rest of our so-called reception of our perception of the initial glimpse from the past memory of a similar glimpse along with our past response to that past memory.
What an effective computer system have our minds become!
Human mind is not a computer alone. If it does things the way a computer does, it gets limited to be a bad computer since machines can perform much better in that realm than we can.
We are not computers, we are basically perceivers. We need to perceive every time anew, even if it resembles something of the very similar nature along with our past response to it stored in our memory of the past!
Responding to a new event from the response stored in our memory amounts to reacting and not really responding to it.
And why do we try to act like a computer at all even at the cost of limiting our perceptive awareness of the present?
It’s because like a computer, we are in a hurry to compute what the present event is about.
This is a tendency that springs from the attitude of living life with a utilitarian point of view. It always is in a hurry to estimate if a new perception of a new event has any utilitarian value in it or not.
A non-meditative mind is always in a hurry to make an opinion about an event without even perceiving it to its fullest anew.
It’s a difference between living life as an experiencing soul and an accumulator.
It’s also a difference between living life as a customer and as a trader. To a customer, every piece one buys is unique; to a trader it’s just another piece out of stock!
And it’s also a difference between the attitudes of being and having. I am versus I have!
The moment we start using all our five senses while perceiving the mundane events and activities of our daily life, our mind comes out of the vicious circle of reacting to them from the memories of our past reactions to the similar events and activities in the present.
Once our mind is able to train itself to act anew every single time it perceives a new event, it develops a new insight into what all amazing stuff these new events and activities have in store for us as far as interacting with them in the absolute present is concerned.
And the best thing is no one will ever come to know that you are meditating as you go on living your life unassumingly every single moment of it!
Sitting in meditation will never take you there. So get up and get into the mundane action of daily life with a meditative set of mind 24 by 7!
You will be rewarded with the insight that only the optimum awareness can equip you with, it being an exclusive human potential to be achieved in order to live life to its fullest!
Skeletal Leap
Who will be the pioneers of learning as well as of teaching how to permanently be in a meditative state 24 by 7 without ever sitting for a session of meditation for a limited duration of time?
They are certainly going to be the pioneers who have already healed themselves creating their personal heaven in life via Skeletal Leap in their body, mind and spirit. Being in a meditative state 24 by 7 is going to be another potent step to create a collective heaven on earth for all Homo sapiens that we are.
Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode, I will tell you about the ultimate human potential to solve the impending world problems in order to establish everything healthy on earth.
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