The Relevance of Meditation

When someone comes to me with concerns, be it
physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, the first strategy
I recommend for coping and healing is to learn to
meditate. When the body is sending stress signals of
discomfort, when the mind is bouncing from worries to
regrets and back again, when a person never finds the
time look inward and discover the peace that is there,
then the first thing to do is begin to learn to quiet the
mind. It makes everything else easier, enabling you to
stand back and observe your life, your relationships and
events from a new perspective, not shadowed by
emotions and drama. The clarity one begins to see with
makes solutions to problems more apparent. Our
normal operating mode is through our ego, which stores
all of our memories and past emotions since birth. If we
operate solely from our ego we find ourselves getting
attached to positions, roles and 'stuff'. Then if anyone or
anything threatens our relationship, role or 'stuff' we
react emotionally without realizing we have a choice.
Have you ever been in the middle of an argument or
unhappy thoughts when suddenly you 'woke up' and
realized how silly you were being? What you have done
is stepped out of your ego for the moment; you've
awoken to your real Self, the source of your
consciousness. When you have the ability to move out
of your ego you won't be tripped up so often into
feeling offended, angry, hateful, jealous, etc. And even if
you do, you know that isn't the real you, so it doesn't
hold as much weight for you. Your awareness is
enhanced. With this enhanced awareness you can begin
to address the other issues in your life that you want to
change. What once seemed like a 'big deal' is reduced to
a more manageable size. You know you are more; you
are greater than the small ego that used to be your entire
awareness. One day, after meditating for a month or a
year or two years you wake up and KNOW you can
achieve what you want, you can heal, create, be, do and
have your hearts desire. You begin realizing you have a
choice on how you react to events and situations instead
of reacting with the learned response of your family of
origin, (your default behavior). As you notice people
around you, you grasp on a deep level what is
motivating them, and naturally have more compassion
towards them. That is not to say all your challenges drift
away and you are forever on a hammock on some
tropical island. One thing I have observed, as the
students go through this process, is the challenge of
discerning what in the world they do want and what
their true purpose is! This will be your next quest.
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