Meditation Through Carpet Cleaning

    It is possible to achieve a state of blissful meditation through the most menial of tasks. Even carpet cleaning works. As long as you focus your attention wholly on the task at hand rather than allowing the stream of thoughts to rush through your consciousness, you can lock off your mind’s constant desire to dwell on the past and imagine the infinite possibilities of the future, and just live for the now. The present is a present after all. Just focus on the hoover, and don’t let any other thought wander into your consciousness. Imagine that you are the hoover. Become one with the inanimate object and you will begin to realise how your body and mind are nothing but survival machines – tools, just the same as the hoover – to be wielded in the same way. There is more to you than your thoughts, and once you can watch them passing like clouds in the sky you will be on your way to understanding that we are not our thoughts, they are purely supplementary to our existence. True awareness and consciousness can only be achieved when they are harnessed and controlled.   And if you are going to take your thoughts to the cleaners London is a great place to do it because there are so many constant distractions fighting for influence on your mind that if you can achieve a state of relaxed awareness in this bustling city, you can do it anywhere. There is also loads to be cleaned, which is why becoming a cleaner isn’t such a bad idea. People think of it as a menial task that should be left to people less educated than them, but really it is a way to clean your mind at the same time as you are cleaning the world around you.