Meditation is more than any technique. It is essentially a way of life that is concerned with establishing a new rhythm or momentum in the life.
There are numerous types of meditation and some of them are listed below. Different types of meditations have different outcomes and as your concentration and experience develops you may want to progress on to more challenging or rather penetrative styles of meditation.
Meditation can be termed the single most effective means for transcending the binding, restrictive sense of separateness and isolation which imprisons our consciousness which often renders it futile.
It is a means of furthering the evolution of our intelligence, our capacity to love, and our ability to bring our personal will into alignment with spiritual will.
The technique of meditation governs all expansions of consciousness…….
Essential Purposes of Meditation
The ultimate goal of meditation is the unfoldment of the human soul and the expansion of consciousness. Thus meditation is essentially an exercise in creative living.
Why Meditate
If applied correctly, it will produce tangible results within your daily life. The most important factor is not the theory of meditation; it is what you discover of yourselves through your experience in meditation.
Benefits of Meditation
Meditation is an outstanding creative agent. The effect of meditation changes conditions, institutes new rhythms, creates new momentums, develops concentration, establishes a bridge between our inner and outer worlds, invokes higher spiritual potencies
No one should be deterred because of a seeming lack of the needed qualifications. Most of us are bigger and wiser and better equipped than we realise. We can all begin to concentrate at once if we choose. We possess a great deal of knowledge, mental power and capacities, which have never been drawn forth from the realm of our subconscious into objective usefulness; anyone who has watched the effect of meditation upon the beginner will substantiate this statement.
The results of the first step in the meditation discipline, that is, of concentration, are often amazing. People “find” themselves; they discover hidden capacities and an understanding never used before; they develop an awareness, even of the phenomenal world, which is to them, miraculous; they suddenly register the fact of the mind, and that they can use it, and the distinction between the knower and the instrument of knowledge becomes steadily and revealingly apparent.
There has been a huge volume of scientific research conducted into the effects of meditation over the last 30 years. These include the measurement of brain activity during meditation, effects on stress, health and aging and many more. The vast amount of research indicates that there are substantial, measurable effects that result from meditation practices.
The power of meditation to affect the physical body has been studied and indicates that meditation causes profound effects in the cellular and brain structures. The effect in assisting with health is also well proven, particularly the effect of meditation on hypertension (high blood pressure) and cardiac problems
Meditators – The Artist Within
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer until he has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
So do you also; cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is shadowed, labour to make all glow with beauty, and do not cease chiselling your statue until there shall shine out on you the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the final goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”
Plotinus- The Enneads
Begin it now
One of the first effects of our meditation work is usually an increased efficiency in our daily life, whether lived in the home, the office, or in any field of endeavour. Mental application to the business of living is in itself a concentration exercise and brings notable results. Whether we achieve final illumination or not through the practice of concentration and meditation, we will nevertheless have gained much, and greatly enriched our life; our usefulness and power will be enormously increased and our sphere of influence widened.
Know what you want to gain from meditation and know your purpose and your goals and in knowing this – why wait, begin it now.
