Meditation is essential in a number of
ways. It calms the mind, facilitates happiness and balances your
perception of the world. Meditation also opens the gateway to infinite
intelligent energy and communication with the higher self.
The mind goes over a lot, churning
thoughts, worries, needs and desires, over and over. Clearing this
activity resets the mind, which naturally returns to a calm
harmonious state by default. Worrying is a habit like smoking or
biting your finger nails, and stopping this activity results in
detachment from it.
Breaking the habit of continuous
thought, which is done through meditation, produces effects that
spill over into your daily life. Your cleansed mind, free of the
thought habit, automatically approaches daily activities and
obstacles in a balanced manner. Calmness becomes the new norm.
'When the turbulence of distracting
thoughts subsides, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arise
from within' (Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, 2010).
Viewing from your new standpoint, it's
as if you're standing outside of your problems and other obstacles,
and take a wiser, balanced, overall view of the whole. Approaching
life in this way results in swifter solutions, implemented in a
calmer, happier way. If you have emotional reactions or mood swings,
meditation is a wonderful tool.
By developing the habit of a calm mind,
you start to realise what's really important in life. Again, that
ability to gain the overall balanced view of things takes effect by
enabling you to prioritise properly. Naturally this results in
rejection of materialistic desires and appreciation of love, family,
friends, helping others and spiritual self improvement. Meditation
equals a release from this world's insanity, uncovering the spiritual
sense you had all along.
Meditation also provides a link with
your higher self. Given we are all spiritual beings using a human
body for a time for the purpose of learning and enrichment, we need
to reconnect with our higher self in order to recharge, and reset our
aims more in-line with universal purpose. Meditation activates your
pineal gland and facilitates subtle communication. It is believed
that the higher self is you in a different space and time, and can
coexist during the space-time illusion we are experiencing now.
During the forgetting at birth, we partially lose touch with this
higher self, yet they are present all along.
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