Is meditation for me?
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Meditation transforms your very lifestyle.
Do you ever wonder if there is a guaranteed solution to your stress, anxiety, depression, worries, fears, etc? Have you been trying to get over your short temper and not been too successful? Do you feel overwhelmed by life at times?
Meditation is the answer you’ve been looking for! Meditation relaxes the body and mind, bringing clarity of thought. This helps you see life with a new perspective, and you start living intensely and spontaneously
I don’t have time to meditate
If you feel you don’t have time to meditate, if you are too busy to make time for meditation, then you are the person that needs meditation the most! We always give appointments to everyone else except ourselves. Taking time to meditate is making an appointment with yourself, and spending some time understanding your own deeper needs. In our hectic modern day life, we tend to spend all our time and energy in fulfilling the various roles we play in personal and professional lives.
The problem with the rat race is, even if you win you are still just a rat!
We work hard to create and maintain our personality, but we forget that there is an individual within us, who is beyond all these roles. Our individuality is much more than the personality. We forget that we are not just a parent to our children or a spouse or a boss or a friend or a child to our parents. Our individuality suffers because of this dire neglect of our self.
This disconnection with our self is the direct cause of all the stress, tension, worry, anxiety and depression we experience. Meditation is the key that unlocks this door to our self and puts us in touch with our individuality.
Meditation heals and integrates your being.
I have better things to do
Meditation is not a quantity to be added to your life, it is a quality to be added to your consciousness.
With regular meditation you will find that you can do the same things better, quicker, more efficiently, in a more relaxed way, with more creativity and enthusiasm. Meditation transforms you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Introduction to Meditation – v2.0
Research shows that meditators experience very low levels of stress and live a healthy and peaceful life. Meditation unleashes a natural source of intelligence in you. The side effect of it will be increased productivity, improved interpersonal relationships, and much more.
I can’t just sit with closed eyes not doing anything
Meditation is not just about closing the eyes. It is not about not doing anything. It is not about controlling your thoughts.
It is really a very powerful means of creating awareness within oneself, every moment.
Awareness is neither suppression of thoughts nor fantasizing and dreaming. It is a state beyond both.
The directed awareness enables one to be involved in any task with full focus and energy.
You can fully enjoy anything, whether it is as simple a task as washing dishes or as complex as managing a billion-dollar company.
I can’t concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes at the most
Meditation is not concentration, it is awareness.
Concentration is exclusive, awareness is inclusive. When you concentrate you shut out everything else and focus your attention on one object. In awareness, nothing is shut out, everything exists as is, and you continue to keep your attention on one or more objects.
When you concentrate you are at tension, because your mind will be constantly struggling to exclude some inputs. You may be trying to shut out the sounds around you, you will be resisting the aroma of food cooking near by, you will be fighting with yourself! This is not meditation.
In meditation, you relax into awareness. You will hear the sounds around you, you will smell the food near by, you will acknowledge it but not be disturbed by it. To meditate is to be aware, to be a witness.
When you learn the art of meditating, concentration can happen effortlessly, whenever you need it to happen.
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