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Article #500 : Understanding the process of meditation

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Meditation can be described as a we finish, we lose it and return to our
continued, unbroken awareness of the mind distracted state. So, we need to develop
in its raw state. It involves the a meditative lifestyle. This lifestyle
overcoming of distractions and dissipated will help us observe and understand why
energies into a blissful awareness. we oscillate between the calm meditative
Let us look at it this way - at any state and our daily state of mind. We
point of time we are consumed with then understand what patterns of our
countless thoughts and emotional baggage lifestyle disturb our calm, blissful
at the conscious and subconscious level. state.
This prevents us from experiences true, Important prerequisite for meditation:
uninhibited bliss. Bliss will result from For successful meditation, we must be
an expanded awareness of the happenings 'grounded'. Grounding is that anchor that
without any attachments and bondages helps us to be stable in the meditative
whatsoever. process. Normally, grounding can be
Meditation is a process which equips us anchoring to your breath or your body
with tools to experience this bliss. It movement while in the meditative state.
shows us the path to live everyday life It can happen that as you proceed in
using these tools. meditation, you reach a stage of unknown
People who meditate realize that they where you have no confidence to proceed
experience a beautiful inner space as further. At such a time, grounding is of
they disengage from the outside world and great help as it provides a memory of
go deep into themselves. They get where you are and what you are doing. It
detached from their ego and the emotional provides a stability to rest upon as
bondage to experience this feeling. But energies start to change while proceeding
as soon as they come out of it, they in meditation.
return to their 'personality shapes'. How to use meditation:
These shapes are accompanied by learned In meditation, we should develop the
patterns of behavior and thinking about capacity to use our energy to manipulate
who they are and what they can or cannot our mind and how we feel. We should be
achieve. able to understand what is going on at
We must strive to relate these two our deeper levels. Only when we
states - the higher meditative state and understand the issues can we tackle them
the daily conscious state. At any point and take them out as a distraction to our
of time, we should be aware of our calm being.
'higher state'. Meditation is mind In 'Antar Mouna' there are stages to do
management and helps us do that. this. In stage 1 we witness the sensory
What meditation does: information. In stage 2, we witness the
Meditation helps us overcome our spontaneous thoughts. In stage 3, we
manifold desires and distractions. It create thoughts that need to be tackled.
does so NOT by curbing desires - which Stage 4 deals with grappling with
will always be there - but by rendering unconscious forces as they arise.
them inconsequential in front of an As you see, meditation is a time to work
unbroken and larger desire of existence. upon ourselves, to tackle issues that
The more we can hold onto the memory of prevent us from being in a perpetual
the meditation practice, the easier it is meditative state - one thatis without
to pull yourself back from the endless fear, anxiety, insecurity and desire.
desires. Once we develop a meditative state we
Meditation teaches us to be a 'witness'. can see the strongest of emotions for
While we are meditating, we are detached what they are and deal with them in a
and enjoying the moment. But the moment calm confident manner.






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