MF 13 - Lisa Hamilton Conscious Runner Meditation in Motion Interview

Sicco Rood interviews meditation teachers of various wisdom traditions

Mar 23 2015

Interview with Lisa Hamilton of the "Conscious Runner".

"Running is my form of meditation, my meditation practice." Lisa Hamilton

What brought you to a meditation practice?

Trying to eliminate chaos in her life, and also in her mind, and connect to peace in a nutshell.

You mention a natural disaster, hurricane Hugo in your book, what is the role of that major (traumatic) event in your life?

Lisa says that it did transform her, and she was traumatized by that experience. She still finds herself shivering and having other symptoms when there is a storm. it can leave remnants. It still to this day has somewhat of an effect. She doesn't necessarily think it changed the way she views things. She's always known that there's more to life than money, cars, etc. Just a knowing that there was more to life..

She wasn't brought up that way, it was a painful upbringing. In part to escape that pain, she had to believe that there was something more to life.

What problem where you perhaps trying to solve with your meditation?

She didn't approach it as a specific problem, like working on forgiveness, progress, or self-esteem. I wanted to solve the problem of chaos and unhappiness. Once I could connect to source into the present moment, that all of those other things would disappear. Going for the root than dealing with the limbs and for the branches.

I don't look too much for the branches. She always knew that there was something even larger than that. That if she just addressed the root cause (her chaos and unhappiness), then the rest would just fall away by itself.

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