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Lesson 1 What is Meditation?
For hundreds and hundreds of years, people have used meditation to achieve A PEACEFUL MIND
The Origin of Meditation Meditation techniques originated through observation. People with the ability to spontaneously enter into the meditative state were seen by others who duplicated what they had observed and found that they too could experience meditation by the same process. These observers then passed their knowledge on to others. Through the years this knowledge continued to be passed down and now you have the opportunity to acquire and pass on that knowledge too.
The Benefits of Meditation Meditation can be used for practical purposes, such as focusing your attention or calming yourself in an instant. When you are becoming agitated in a difficult situation, a few moments of meditation can put you at ease and help you regain control. Meditation can also take you to amazingly deep levels of relaxation. It can quiet your mind, improve your concentration and help you achieve your goals. You can even learn to control pain, blood pressure, heartbeat, or the flow of blood from a wound. Through the process of meditation, the natural healing power of the body can be freed to do its job. If your orientation is religious or spiritual, meditation
can help you reach undreamed of depths of inner experience and union
with the Divine (whatever your word is for that).
Meditation is Easy! If you are like most people, you have probably been under the impression that meditation is difficult and requires hours of relentless hard work. That is simply not the case. The truth is, YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO MEDITATE! Have you ever experienced your attention flowing steadily to one thing? Maybe it was someone or something you were looking at. Maybe it was a single idea in your mind. Maybe it was an emotion, or even the feel of your body moving while you were walking or running. After a while, did you experienced a subtle shift? Did you feel as if you had entered into a different state? This ‘shift’ was, in fact, a kind of meditation.
What is Meditation? In meditation, there’s you, your attention, and the thing your attention is on. That’s it. After a while, a shift occurs all by itself. ‘Meditation’ is the word we use to describe the state that occurs as a result of this shift. Meditation Meditation is also the word we use to describe the process of getting this shift to happen. Meditation
Meditation There are only three parts to meditation: 1 You 2 Your attention 3 The object on which your |
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