Meditation – The Wisest Choice

I have been a regular meditator for over 10 years now. In that time, I have seen radical shifts in my consciousness. Before I began meditating, my life experience primarily consisted of:

• Erratic thought processes
• Inability to relax
• Predominance of making unwise decisions
• Poor health choices
• Low energy and laziness
• Lack of motivation
• Despondency and depression
• Regular feelings of anger

And in these past ten years, I have seen many of these obstacles either completely or almost completely neutralized.

Many of you know me because we have worked together utilizing my skills in CranioSacral Therapy, massage, Vedic Astrology, Emotional Freedom Technique, or the Yuen Method. And many of you know how helpful and powerful these

Meditation - A practice that transcends dogma and religion

tools are. I became personally involved with these techniques because of how they benefited my own healing process.

However, of all of these healing tools, the one that has made the most difference in my life is regular meditation practice, and I’d like to tell you why.

The practice of meditation requires our own discipline and intention to clear out our consciousness and become a better representations of the divine power in manifestation. Meditation is not something that we go to a practitioner and say, “You know, I’ve not been making very good choices in regards to how I carry my self in life, so I am coming to you to fix me.” To practice meditation requires that you honestly study your behavior, your thought processes, and motivations and make a conscious effort to change. Every day when you wake up and swing your feet out of bed and make a bee line for your meditation nook, you are affirming that intention. With every affirmation of that intention, you become a little clearer, a little more aware of your wholeness with all of life, and the better your life becomes.

I have no qualms with getting “acute care” when you need it. We can all use a good massage, CranioSacral session, visit to the doctor or Vedic Astrological report from time to time to stay in tune with our bodies and the trends of nature. But we have to be careful that we do not make these into crutches that only allow us to maintain our behaviors that cause physical, emotional or psychological problems in the first place.

We are meant to be strong in life. We are meant to live freely and with joy. We are meant to be happy. Sometimes we all hit a pothole in the road, but that should be a rare occurrence, a true accident, rather than a reflection of our inability to control our vehicle.

After my years of meditation I have found that after I am done meditating and even through out the day that I experience:

• I heightened sense of purpose and clarity
• More joy for no reason
• The ability to make wiser decisions (most of the time)
• An inner knowing about what people, activities, foods, etc, are life enhancing
• The ability to be more decisive
• Better health and a stronger body
• More energy and zeal for life
• A relatively thought free mind
• A deep abiding sense of knowing my true nature

And I will be honest, that these are just a few of the benefits.  The list could go on.

Now, as mentioned above, sometimes things go wonky. Not everything always works out the way I’d like it. Occasionally, my mind trips me up and I make a stupid decision, or I allow moods to effect my decisions. The world has not turned into a rose colored flower garden. However, I am now more easily able to deal with what life brings.

 

Riding the waves of infinity can be enjoyable!

 

Life is no longer a masked villain, chasing me around the room, and beating me over the head with an iron bar. It has become like a vast ocean, in which I must learn to ride the waves and hone my skills on the high seas. It has become an adventure.

For me, and many millions of people the world over, meditation has proven to be the wisest choice they could make, both for the personal and community level.

Always consider that you are influenced by other people’s states of consciousness and that you influence others with your state of consciousness. When you meditate, your consciousness becomes stronger and clearer and brighter. Just as a shadow cannot exist in sunlight, the shadows of human frailties cannot exist in the light of a clear consciousness. On the contrary, when shadows overlap, they become darker and darker. By being a clear light, you cease to be influenced by others, and also lighten up the shadows of the world. Imagine an entire group of individuals meditating effectively. As their clarity and light grows, the whole of human consciousness also becomes brighter.

In less esoteric language, consider this simple situation. When you are stressed, tired, and overwhelmed, how likely are you to be kind to your neighbor, a family member or friend? When you are well rested, relaxed and feeling safe, how easy are you to get along with? By consistent meditation practice you move from the former situation to the latter. You directly impact humanity by your simple presence. Now imagine if 20, 100, or 1000 more people in the world were to share such a calm peaceful presence, how it would benefit all those with whom they came into contact.

You are aware that we pass around our stress and discontentment. If you are upset and irritable, you will take it out on your child. Then your child doesn’t know what to do with that tension and so she picks on her younger brother. The younger brother is thoroughly confused about the attack and so releases the tension by pulling the cat’s tail.  We can see this in families, communities, businesses, organizations etc.

Once more, remember the last time someone smiled at you genuinely. It made you happy. Then you gave a compliment to the clerk at the check out line. She smiled, to know she was appreciated in her work. When she got home, she took some time to play with her daughter, etc, etc, etc. We pass around a positive presence just as effectively, and by your practice of meditation, you tap into the source of the positivity and bring it fully into expression.

 

The light of the world is within you, and ready to be shared.into expression.

 

Currently there are about 7 billion people on this planet. Your job is not to change them or to make them better or change their minds about anything. Your job is to take care of your own state of consciousness. You have 1/7 billionth of the population problem to change. That’s it. Take care of that, and like the light of candle shared between wicks, without the diminution of the original flame, you light up the world with your consciousness.