If you meditate, what is your practice like?

I have meditated for 30 years. It has waxed and waned, I’ve had periods when I didn’t meditate or meditated little, but it has been constant.

I have never followed any certain practice, and instead let it happen on its own. I’ve been guided by a gentle inner voice. In some reading that has also not followed any certain path, I’ve found my style is New Age-ish mixed with bits of Hindu and Zen elements.

Over the years, I went most regularly to My Happy Place that had certain places where I could sit and go deeper. It is a kind of meditation within meditation.

My Happy Place began to fade in importance about a year or so ago, and I began concentrating on sitting and breathing. While I still do an exercise with my chakras, these days, I just sit and breathe. It’s become quite important for me to take this time to sit and feel air moving in and out of my nostrils.

Thoughts come and go. Occasionally, I have to sweep them out, and I also find myself wandering. It isn’t terribly important. I simply return to the sensation of the air in my nostrils.

What has occurred to me in the last 2 days is that I have utterly no idea where this is leading, and I am perfectly at peace without knowing. I’m not worried about it at all.

Meditation is the most important thing I do. Through it, I found self-love. It took many decades, but it came. I am in complete acceptance of myself, and I’m quite fond of who I am. If my practice leads nowhere else, this discovery or gift makes it all worthwhile. I can say honestly at this moment it makes life worthwhile.