The Silent Donkey: Why Abraham Hicks General Well-Being Meditation Won't Find What You Already Are

It is quite funny, isn't it? We spend years distracted, and because we are distracted, we become fascinated by attention, by awareness, and by the promise of finding ourselves. We stumble upon various tools, perhaps an **abraham hicks general well-being meditation** or a specific breathing technique, hoping these will finally be the ladder that leads us to the roof. But we never stop to ask: who is climbing? And where exactly do we think the roof is? There is an old expression that captures this perfectly: it is like searching for the donkey while you are already sitting on its back. We are looking for being, for the absolute, for that sense of "home," while the very looking is an expression of that being. We are like waves in the ocean, exhausted from trying to find the water. The wave doesn't need to "achieve" water-ness; it is already that, whether it is a crashing, violent surge or a quiet ripple. Often, we feel alone on this pathless path. We join groups and find ourselves irritated by the spiritual chatter, the noisy apps with their new-age music, and the constant "guidance" that feels more like a distraction than a homecoming. We seek a space to access what we are before the words start, yet we find ourselves surrounded by people talking about their "journey" or their "awakening process." But there is no journey. There is no process. There is only this. You might find that a practice like an **abraham hicks general well-being meditation** makes the body-mind feel better. That is perfectly fine. At a horizontal level, life is a series of challenges. We face stress, we face illness, and we face the chronic tensions of a separate self that is constantly trying to protect its borders. Meditation can help harmonize the body with the mind; it can lower the heart rate and dissolve the physical contractions we didn't even know we had. It can make life less "edgy" and more harmonious. But it will not bring you one inch closer to the absolute, because there is no distance to cover. The liberation we speak of is not a liberation *of* the separate self, but a liberation *from* it. It is the realization that the one who thinks they are meditating, the one who thinks they are "improving," is just another movement within the totality. Whether you are meditating or whether you are Hitler, you are a perfect expression of the absolute. That might sound scandalous to the mind that loves to categorize things into "good" and "bad," but from the perspective of the ocean, every wave is equally wet. We often live in abstractions. We live in our thoughts about the past and our anxieties about the future, completely missing the fact that the only reality is this vertical presence. Sometimes, a crisis—like a pandemic or a sudden loss—forces us to drop the abstractions and return to the "viscera" of life. It forces us to stop. And when we stop, we finally feel the agitation we’ve been running from. We realize we’ve been acting just to avoid feeling.