Emerging from the blues

Whenever I am confused, I close my eyes for few seconds, silent my mind, stop thinking about anything waste and negative, start focusing on the best moments of my life, think about the persons whom I love and adore most, ignoring the rest, feel like floating in the sky like a cloud, fill myself with new energy and get back to work. The entire Universe showers it’s positive energy to rejuvenate my mind and soul.

Meditation is the connection with the self and the creator. The word meditation is derived from the Latin word meditari which means to concentrate. The dictionary meaning of the word meditation is to concentrate or focus on one particular idea or thought, while doing so we gather the full power of our mind to focus on one point, to bring optimum results. Our minds continuously work on the problems and bring out the positive solutions.

Meditation is an age-old concept. Since the emergence of the humankind the human was well aware of the meditation, that he practices in the different forms. No doubt the early human was considered amok, but he was sensitive enough to live in harmony with his fellow beings. He consciously or unconsciously was well connected with Creator, as his priority was to grow food to satisfy his hunger. He was away from the vices that braced the human beings as they get connected to one another and enter into various relationships in the form of the family or friends, the human nature declined to the extent that he became slave to the materialistic world, without realizing the fact that he is the part the same Creator, with whose children he is developing wrong competition.

Meditation is the quench for the soul, in this quest man tried different methods to satisfy his thirst for the knowledge of his being. Few are natural and others are created. All the skills are learnable skills, even we learn to walk, speak, eat in proper manner, read, write etc. etc. from our parents. We repetitively do these tasks till these become the part and parcel of our daily routine. Changes due to practice and experience, which are relatively permanent, are illustrative of learning. Different religions, sects, cults and groups have their own methods of meditation. They teach the concept of meditation in different forms.

Meditation is connecting ourselves with our creator. During meditation we are in the direct connection with the Almighty. Our connection is direct, pure and immediate. It needs practice and many times it needs a lot of training. The only hindrance in our spiritual path is our own futile and waste thoughts. Once we learn to train our mind to lessen the number of futile thoughts or mute the unwanted thoughts, we will be able to cross all the hurdles and can increase the potency of our mind.

 Meditation is learning to the manage the traffic of the thoughts that engage our mind throughout the day and depletes our energy. Give commands to our mind to throw the garbage out of it within few seconds. There are many questions that arise in our mind relating to meditation. Few are like this;

• What is meditation?
• Why is it important in our lives?
• How can we meditate?
• What are the methods of meditation?

Jaltarang a traditional millennial water instrument of india

People have different conceptions and mis-conceptions regarding the meditation. When there was no religion, the people were connected with the creator, focused and concentrated. For some it’s an intoxication, once doing meditation leads to doing so daily and sometimes many times in a day, as it takes away the negativity from one’s life. Meditation relaxes our mind, takes away our fear, increases the potency of our mind and improves our proficiency.

• Meditation is the state of mind when we focus on something that we feel will take away all our stresses and give solution to our problems.
• We cannot achieve good results unless and until we focus our attention on our goal only, we have to work hard in the direction in which we have to achieve something. We have to practice the same again and again. So, meditation as per its definition is to focus on one particular idea or thought.
• There are various methods to meditate, different persons give different methods of meditation as per their wisdom and that suits them most. You can choose your own that suits you most.

Few methods of meditation:

1. Loving -kindness meditation.
2. Mindfulness meditation.
3. Spiritual meditation.
4. Focused meditation
5. Body-scan or progressive relaxation.
6. Kundalini Yoga (movement meditation)
7. Breath awareness meditation.
8. Zen meditation also known as zazen (Japanese religious meditation).
9. Transcendental meditation.
10. Mantra meditation, reciting one single word or few words loudly or silently.
11. Meditation through visualization.

Besides these there are many other methods but are less in practice. People meditate while reciting mantras or one particular mantra many times or for a fixed number of times in a day. Some people meditate while listening to soothing and slow music. Many persons produce their own music with vessels that we use in the kitchen to focus their mind and then to go into meditative state of mind, they use jaltarang, the music is produced while using bowls and spoons, mala or prayer beads, Tibetan singing bowl, Buddhist Gongs, Zen gardens, Meditation stones etc.

The simplest way to meditate:

1. Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, if you are beginner focus on the sounds around you, ignore these one by one, try to listen to the voices which are very low.
2. Start focusing on your breath as you inhale and exhale. Feel as if you are taking the air inside and then throwing it out side.
3. Slowly listen to the voices inside your body, say your own heartbeat. As you start focusing on your breath and the inner voices of your body, the thoughts in your mind start slowing down, you will have fewer thoughts or no thoughts at all, you will have full control on your mind, then start feeling the presence of your Creator.
4. The more you practice the closer you will go to your inner self and the Supreme soul; the connection will become closer. Your soul will get connected to the Supreme soul, your guide and patron.
5. Tell yourself that you have created nothing, whatever you have received, received from here, from the Cosmic being. So be grateful to HIM.
6. You will get only those things, attract those situations and meet those people, whom you have attracted, the law of attraction is absolute, so while wishing something be careful.

Meditation is anti-aging, anti-anxiety, anti-depression, anti-uncertainty, anti-fear and anti-stress. It’s the self-healing process. During meditation we form our connection with our Creator, while doing so we use maximum potential of our brain and mind. We use our knowledge and wisdom that we have gained throughout years and learnt from our experiences and also inherited from our ancestors, parents and surroundings. 

If we practice meditation daily and make it a part of our routine, it will automatically take us to the meditative state of mind whenever we feel stressed, exhausted, unloved, fearful, low, failed or experience any such negative state of mind. Meditation uplifts our soul and mind, gives and helps us to attract positivity in our lives.

We can heal even the deadliest diseases with meditation, our body is very intelligent, before contacting any type of disease it repeatedly gives us indications, but as a matter of habit we do not listen to it or give it proper treatment well within in time, resulting thereby in the deadly diseases. Even if we have come into the contact of any such disease, our self-repairing system is still there, we can activate the same with our body, soul and mind, which is possible only with meditation. Meditation increases our will power, make us stronger, healthier, empathetic and more compassionate. It also controls our blood pressure, decrease pain, good for heart, improves our mental health and we experience sound sleep.

We can meditate anytime during day or night, there is no fixed time for meditation. We can meditate while sitting in a comfortable position, laying down in a relaxed position, during walk, exercise, doing yoga etc.

If we meditate for few minutes in the morning immediately after walking up, we experience very positive moments through out our day. We remain energetic and our work capacity increases to a great extent, we shall remain fresh through out the day. Similarly, if we meditate before going to sleep it will be great beneficial for our body and mind. Both our body and mind will feel relaxed, and able to get sound and undisturbed sleep, wake up fresh in the morning. Meditation is the best method to treat insomnia.

The people who meditate daily experience great things and sometimes miracles also. When we silence our mind during meditation, we feel as if living in the world of solace and eternity. Meditation keeps a person away from unnecessary arguments, ailments and confusions. Meditation paves way to spiritualism and introduce us with real us. During meditation you come to know who you are.

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Stay safe, healthy and blessed.