Why Meditate
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Meditation is just being blissful in the moment! When you are at peace in the present moment, you are already in a state of meditation. You don’t need to do anything else.
Meditation is a guaranteed and safe solution for emotional and physical problems... Meditation is the guaranteed and safe solution to handle physical, emotional and psychological problems.
There is no risk of side-effects of popping pills that play with chemical levels in the brain to combat depression or to reduce stress.
Yes, meditation directly works on physical problems also. Recent research shows that 80% of our physical problems have their roots in the mind. They are psycho-somatic problems rather than physical problems.
Meditation really relaxes, rejuvenates and re-invigorates the mind, body and spirit.
Mind your mind
Just try this small experiment when you are by yourself and have 5 minutes time:
Keep a pen and paper with you. Sit with your eyes closed. Don’t concentrate on anything. Just see what thoughts are coming to your head. A few seconds after you close your eyes, you will see a stream of thoughts popping up. Write down, honestly, without editing, whatever thoughts come.
At the end of 5 minutes, read what you have written. What you have recorded is your inner chatter. If you have a glance at it, you can see how disconnected and irrelevant your thoughts are.
One moment, you will be in office, the next moment you will get some thought on your children, another moment your mind jumps to a vacation on the beach.
In life, we imagine ourselves to be guided by our logical and rational mind and we try to analyze situations every moment and try to respond in the most sensible way. But, the mind itself is not logical.
How many times have you done something and then thought, ‘Why did I do that? It is so not me...’?
How many of us have felt powerless against addictions, ‘I know I should kick my drinking habit but that one peg is so tempting’?
How many of us have been confused and helpless at, ‘I know I should have taken my wife and kids to the fair this weekend. But then the deadline at work was also important. I wish I had more time on my hands.’
Experience guaranteed life solutions to clearly understand the inner workings of this complex mind and go beyond these confusions and dilemmas.
Intensely enjoy every moment
You CAN look at any situation with a freshness, uninhibited by the failures of the past yet learn in an unbiased way from the past experience.
You can enjoy every moment of life to the fullest through meditation which brings us into the awareness of the present.
The present is all that matters; not the history of the past, not the speculation of the future. What matters is simply the truth of the certainty of the present moment.
What meditation is not
Meditation is not just sitting with eyes closed for long hours and concentrating on something. If the word meditation brings up such images, you may be wondering if meditation is right for you:
If you are thinking…
I want peace of mind
Peace of mind is itself a self-contradictory term. Mind is by nature dilemma.
What you can discover through meditation is the knack of being a solid center in the eye of the storm of emotions and situations of life. You can learn the art of witnessing. You can master the art of being in control of the mind instead of being under its control. All this can happen while being involved deeply in the very same activities that you are involved in here and now.
You CAN be intensely involved in your activity and at the same time be intensely relaxed.
How long does it take to learn meditation?
You don’t have to learn meditation. Whether you are aware or not, believe it or not, you are already a meditator!
Just remember any moment in your life when you have experienced extreme beauty. The sun rising suddenly from behind a mountain; or the first time you hear an inexpressibly lovely piece of music. At such a moment, suddenly, you become still, wordless, totally aware. That moment is meditation.
After a few moments, your inner chatter starts again. Your mind says, ‘That is a beautiful sunrise…’ Your mind starts comparing the music to other music that you have heard. That means you have fallen out of meditation.
Meditation is nothing but recapturing and remaining in that tranquil and blissful state.