I remember being initiated into TM or Transcendental Meditation in the 1970's, and appreciate how much it did for me back then. In 1986, I switched to Siddha Yoga Meditation, and somewhere along the years
leading up until now, I just made it my practice to "go within" by diving into the cave of the heart.
Inasmuch as Yoga and Meditation have gotten more press and are popular these days, I still get people who are desperate for peace and contentment, and don't experience the sublime state of quiet joy. All I hear myself saying to them is, "meditate". It's one of those suggestions that's usually met with a respectful silence; as if the most impossible task, a chore to be avoided at all costs has been presented. Truly, I can count the times on one hand that I've been asked, "show me how", or "do you know where I can learn?" Interesting, isn't it?
Why is it that we avoid going within with such intensity? Some people would rather do dishes than sit for just a little while. This is so true!
It may be because we are unfamiliar with the pure aspect of our Higher Self which goes ignored, while spending untold hours and dollars entertaining our Ego mind. I say, "who's better than the Ego?" What a setup it's created for itself, through us. If it sounds like I'm separating the two it's because one of them thinks it is separate. Can you guess which one? When we meditate, we practice the voluntary disengagement from the Ego, in order to experience the larger "I ". If we release the sense of "I" and "mine" and allow it to loosen its' grip, just for a split second, our "I" or awareness will drop into the heart center, and once there, be free to roam in the vast space of perfect holiness. Surfacing from the deep well of the heart, is where perfect peace and the contentment that we long for exists. It's within us, nowhere else! Look within! Make a pledge to begin a meditation practice, and peace will be yours, every day of your life, no matter what the circumstances of that life are. So powerful, yet so sublime that it can bring you to your knees with Gratitude.
My meditation was profound. I placed my awareness in the heart center, while evoking the FEELING of gratitude for the earth. Once the energy was felt in the heart, I moved my awareness to the 3rd Eye or the Pineal gland (basically behind the space between the eyes, in the middle of the head). Now with the energies joined and moving upward, to about one foot above the head, imagining and holding the energies rising up to meet the energy being poured in from up above. Did that for 20 minutes while listening to a master of vibrational sound healing. Emerging from that was such a wow experience that I savored the meditation longer than the 20 minutes I had meditated for!
Have you ever tried to meditate? If not, what's stopping you from becoming friends with the "I" that lies within? The Internet is filled with information on meditation for any and every belief system and path. Start today and live in Peace. Namaste!
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