Relaxation, awareness through meditation<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Meditation is a time of relaxation. It is a time
\nwhen you rest, allowing your brain to enter a deeper state of
\nrelaxation that is halfway between being awake and sleeping. As a
\nhuman being, you are energy in physical form.<\/p>\n
When you meditate, your brain waves slow to a certain
\nfrequency which is closer to the frequency of the etheric
\n(invisible) bodies around you. These etheric bodies \"hold\" the
\nvibrations of emotions and thoughts so, in meditation, you are
\nmore able to access your subconscious and unconscious mind.<\/p>\n
You are also able to use your familiar senses and other senses
\nwhich we are not normally attuned to, to receive and transmit.
\nMeditation can be a time to expand your senses.<\/p>\n
The meditation period is a time to have fun, destress and to
\nfeel safe. It is proven effective in improving health and
\nreducing the risk of disease of many types.<\/p>\n
Because in meditation one is not concerned with the physical
\nform, this is a time when you can be in a state of heightened
\nawareness; it can be used to learn more about yourself, to \"heal\"
\npast experiences, to learn why you are the way you are, to get
\nanswers to questions, to feel your energy levels healing your own
\nbody and to experience different levels of existence to such a
\ndegree that you know things you would not normally know!<\/p>\n
Meditation is easy. It can be guided -- in which case a person
\ntalks you through a meditation (usually for 1.5 hours) -- or can
\nbe through listening to music or to the sounds around you.<\/p>\n
Many women -- especially Western women, and especially when
\nyou first start -- find it easier to follow a guided meditation
\nrather than a Buddhist-style time when you just sit quietly with
\nno sound.<\/p>\n
It is also easier to meditate in a group: there is, quite
\nliterally, more energy around. Meditation is best done regularly
\nat a particular time -- it is nice to start off with some sort of
\nritual such as lighting a candle, burning incense or counting
\nback from five to one. The ritual is a signal to your body that
\nbecomes recognized so that, every time you follow that ritual, it
\nbecomes easier and easier to reach a state of altered brain
\nwaves, of the deep relaxation that is meditation.<\/p>\n
Meditation can be terrific to help you learn how to feels to
\nbe. People are always talking about being, but it is a difficult
\nconcept to grasp as we constantly push ourselves to \"do\". We feel
\nwe should be doing things but there is a balance -- we also need
\nto be: to be relaxed, to be happy with who we are, to reflect and
\nto expand our awareness of different aspects of this planet we
\nlive on.<\/p>\n
Although this is only an example, occasionally it is really
\nfun to \"pretend\" to be a tree, to feel what it feels like to be a
\ntree. To imagine that your feet have roots into the earth and
\nthat, through them, you draw up nutrients from the earth. You can
\nfeel the pressure of the earth around your \"roots\".<\/p>\n
As a \"tree\", you can feel the sensation of water-bearing
\nnutrients traveling up your \"veins\": you can feel how these
\ntubular veins are encased and protected by their own membranes
\nand the thicker membranes that form the bark of the tree. You can
\nsense the nutrients flowing up through the branches, to the twigs
\nand into the leaves where they can react with the chemicals of
\nthe leaves to release different types of energy.<\/p>\n
You can feel what it feels like to be a leaf on your tree. To
\nfeel blown by the breeze. To feel warmed by the sun. To feel the
\ncool of the evening and the night. To feel the different energies
\nof the day and night. You can also feel what it feels like to be
\na bud or a flower on that tree. Or a fruit (nobody can know you
\nare pretending to be a tree, for you will just look like you are
\nresting with your eyes closed).<\/p>\n
You can enjoy the pretense, enjoy your powers of imagination
\nand you can feel safe to relish being a tree. You can think about
\nwhat a tree is, what it represents. You can feel good about being
\na tree, you can appreciate the symbolic importance and actual
\nimportance of trees. And feel gratitude. Perhaps you can also
\nfeel the strength of the tree and its enthusiasm for life, its
\nself-acceptance. Feel these qualities within you. You can allow
\nall the awareness that has come to you from this short time of
\nrelaxation to nourish you.<\/p>\n
This is a mini-meditation which you might like to try, with or
\nwithout music. All meditations are different.<\/p>\n
You can use the state of meditation to feel and experience
\nmarvelous states of being: for example, states of magnificence,
\nof incredibly deep love, and of wisdom.<\/p>\n
You can also use this state of being to change thought
\npatterns. Thought is energy. Energy is thought. If you want to
\nchange your self in any way, or change the state of the world,
\nyou can change it by believing in the power of your Self to do
\nso. Thought is far, far more powerful than most of us realize.<\/p>\n
Believe that you can effect change to achieve positive
\nresults. Any belief that you are not this powerful is invalid and
\nyou may find it beneficial to release feelings of inadequacy
\n(self-awareness courses are useful here). Feeling intimacy, trust
\nand caring -- not just for yourself but for other people and all
\nother forms -- is another wonderful by-product of meditation.<\/p>\n
Learning to accept and love your self is an inevitable aspect
\nof meditation as you are giving yourself time to nourish yourself
\n-- doing what you know is good for you.<\/p>\n
Many people prefer to start meditation with movement of some
\nkind as this gets the molecules moving round the body and makes
\npeople feel more alive.<\/p>\n
Try meditation. If you need guidelines let it be known (in
\nthought or verbally) that you would like to know more. You would
\nbe amazed at what will happen. You may find a book falls at your
\nfeet, or a person tells you of some wonderful course, or you open
\na book and a phrase leaps out at you that you just know is meant
\nfor you.<\/p>\n
Let your life become free -- free of stress, free of fear,
\nfree to feel joy and free to happy.<\/p>\n
The writer is a spiritual healer and counselor.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/relaxation-awareness-through-meditation-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }