Meditation - A path to your Hidden Potentials
Meditation, one key aspect of our life which lot of people tend to just ignore or not pay attention to......
A lot of people ask me what should we exactly do in Meditation, my only one answer to them is, You do not do anything, Meditation is nothing but bringing stillness.
Stillness within your Mind, thoughts, emotions. Again here stillness does not mean suppress. When I say stillness it purely means just quieting yourself.
For a beginner, let's see, how can you start this Journey
Most of us Meditate for inner peace, relaxation, calmer emotions and for a healthy body, while a few Meditate with a very strong focus on spiritual advancement. But with whatever intention you meditate when your practice is regular with attention then you will get an experience of super-consciousness. And once you get the taste of your super-conscious it is like never looking back.
There are ample ways of Meditation, you can just select what suits you the best and go ahead with the practice. It is good to keep one practice and follow it for longer duration for better results rather that trying out some new form everyday.
If one is not sure about how to start with the Meditation practice, one can first get into a Passive Meditation, and then slowly progress towards Active Meditation.
In Passive Meditation you just settle down with your Mind, Body and Emotions by sitting in a calm posture for around 15 to 20 minutes or for a minimum of 10 minutes. In this time the Ego Mind gets quiet down, there is a state of surrendering. You do not do anything here, if there are thoughts passing you let them pass, the only thing you do is do not hold on to them.
Over a period of time you will see the thoughts getting lesser and lesser.
And from there you can slowly take the shift to the Active Meditation, where the true journey of Inwardness begins. Active Meditation helps the mind to create an Internal shift, It can be a guided meditation, or repeating a Mantra, listening to some esoteric tones or focusing on the breadth, the active meditation brings your focus in a proactive manner to stimulate the Alpha brain waves activity in the Brain.
The benefits of an active meditation is that you can bring your focus just on one thing which helps slow down the brain waves.
If you are into regular meditation, active and passive forms will not matter to you as you would have already mastered the art of stillness.
There are ample of ways to progress spiritually, I will not only say spiritually but also in every aspect of your being. Meditation is one of those ways and a powerful one. Meditation is the only practice where the focus is inwards, whereas all the other spiritual practices takes your focus outwards.
For a Good Meditation practice you need to set certain rules for yourself.
- Dedicate a place for meditation. It builds up energy over a period of time in that space.
- Dedicate a fix time in a day for meditation. This brings in discipline in your practice.
- Genuinely get the desire to meditate. It should not become just one another routine for the day.
- Meditate with no expectations. This is one of the biggest mistake people make. People think if they meditate, all their problems will end, which is not the case. With Meditation practices you will learn how to deal with your problems effectively and not take a toll on your life.
Do a Meditation practice for a period of 40 days and observe the effect it has on you and your relationships.
As such Meditation should be a way of life and not a time bound activity, but to start with one should first come to the stage of complete surrender. Once that happens you can be in a Meditative state for 24 hours of the day with whatever activity you are doing.
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the advice in the post is great!
very useful info because very few people understand what meditation is even if they try to practice it
that's a great himanity problem - people try to do something without understanding the essence of things
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Thanx dear Khushnum, I am glad you enjoyed the experience
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Great advice. I’ve been meditating for several years and it’s the hardest yet most rewarding thing to do. Hard because your mind always tries to demand attention.
That's great to hear @kp138. I enjoy my practices and look forward to any available time to do it.
Meditation is the best medication for any type of problem-related to the body. When the meditation topic comes people are highly confused how to start with meditation. A well-written article that details clearly about meditation. Of course, it is not very easy to start off with meditation. A strong determination will be necessary.
For people who have good control over mind, it will take around 20 mins to reach the perfect state of meditation. For others, it may take several minutes. But with good practice and consistency, people can easily reach the good state of meditation. The feeling that meditation gives can only be experienced, it can never be expressed.
Very well said Bala, yes to start it takes an effort, cause to sit doing nothing is the most difficult task but when you get the flavour of it you never want to stop
Thanks for enlightening us. :)
I am a bit confused though. My understanding is that one should try active meditations first before moving to passive. This is because sitting becomes easier after you remove blocks from the body with active meditations; otherwise there's a lot of disturbance within.
oh, yes, it's right
even when I try not to think about something and just catch the wave of my calmness, it's rather hard to do t because the outer world and the flow of thoughts don't let me to turn off, and the meditation becomes a struggle for inner silence...-(
Never try to not think, because then all the more you will be flooded with thoughts. If the thoughts come to your mind let them pass with an overriding thought, does this hold any importance for me right now, the answer will always be No, so then say Ok I deal will this later n let the thought pass. As you keep passing the thoughts with every practice you will see them getting lesser and lesser
yes, maybe it's my mistake!
i have read about the practice of "black dot" when a person just sits and looks in the wall where there is a black dot (in imagination, not a real one), and he is looking and looking...thinking only about tis very dot.
Stopping of inner dialog - this practice is called in such a way, we need to stop our thoughts and learn to think only about the dot
it's veeeeery hard but many people say when you are able to do it - you're almost on the top
but I like your theory more) in the beginning it's really easier
Yes my dear, there are lot of ways, and there is nothing as right or wrong its about what suits you best you go ahead with that.
What you are saying removing blocks is the passive form of meditation. Passive form allows you to relax and surrender whereas active then helps you reflect. Unless you dont surrender yourself completly you will always be in a state of delusion.
Right! Must admit I have more to say on this one, but will it help you or me?
Meditation is all about taking it easy, so arguing about meditation and disturbing the peace could be funny indeed! :D
I have always found the benefits of "doing nothing" a bit "funny" but i like to meditate <3
Well what you think you are doing nothing in that time you are doing miracles for yourself. Why do you want your mind to be always busy and cluttered. Just like yoy sleep and give your body physical rest by doing meditation you give your mind and soul some rest to be rejuvenated again
Meditation really is a powerful thing that can help clear away the clutter.
Thank you @lk666
Very nice and important to help many - has made an amazing difference in my life, so helpful and stress reducing. Thanks for the post.
Thank you @danielhime
I'm sorry I don't have much to contribute now, besides what was I to add? You've said it all. All I'll have to say is that meditation isn't a simple as it seems it takes a man to be patient and determined to meditate effectively. Keep up the good work @nainaztengra☺️👍.
Meditation by itself will teach you patience so you need not try hard on that. The only thing you need to do is just quiet your mind and give some space to yourself