Side benefits of meditation

 

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There are two side benefits to an extended meditation practice. That is, a meditation effort that extends over a given period of time.

One side benefit to meditation is that as we calm the mind to explore our own true nature, we will cause a corresponding calmness in the body. The reason for this is mind functions as a switching center to control how our creative life energy manifests. Calming the mind, allows the energy which flows into the body to flow into calmer mental patterns. Those patterns in turn calm the body.

In the creative process, the body is the manifestation of your creative life energy based on how and what mind thinks and believes. As your thinking becomes more focused and/or our thinking become calmer there will be a corresponding calmness in the body. If you think of what mind thinks and believes as turning energy switches on and off that cause changes to the creative life energy flowing into the body, it is rather obvious that the less thinking we do, the less we disturb and agitate the flow of our creative life energy. In turn, the expression of our creative life energy, which both creates and animates our body, will corresponding be calmed and less disturbed and agitated.

Calming the body and reducing tension could be the objective for meditating. But that as the objective will never allow us to explore our true nature for we cannot move past the intention we are consciously holding. This is one reason why many people meditate but never uncover their true nature. Unless we intend to explore our true nature, we will not be able to do so. In this regard, meditation is perfectly safe. Meditation will only allow us to explore what we intend to do and no further. It must be emphasized, our energy goes where we focus our attention and awareness and no where else. We are creating what we intend and what we intend is the summation of all the intentions you carry at any and all levels of your being.

A second side benefit to meditation is that no matter what we intend for our mediation, as we meditate and become aware of all that is within our being and if we give permission to ourselves, we can begin to see differently. What we see is of course determined by the conscious and subconscious intentions we hold.

Look at our being as a pool of water. The more we think the more we agitate the pool and the less you are able to see into the pool because of the agitation. The less thinking we do or the more focused our thinking, the less we agitate the pool. As the pool become less agitated, we can see through the pool into the depths of the pool. Whether we look into the pool or not is another issue. But, in any case, you will have the ability to see into the depths of our being. In this regard, we will not see differently because we meditate. Meditation will only allow us to become aware of what is, as it is. That does not mean we will see the context that allows us to understand what is. We will see differently only if we allow ourselves to do so.

Exactly how we see and what we see will be unique to each of us. It will be determined by what we have experienced in the past for we can only explain to ourselves what we experience by the experiences we have had. Unless our set of experiences is broad and deep enough to properly characterize the experience we have, we will not be seeing reality for what it really is.

As said, we can look at this process as a pool of water that is agitated on its surface such that we cannot see below the surface because of the agitation. Meditation calms the agitation. If we choose to look, we can see the depth and breath of the pool. We will see the limits and boundaries that are containing the pool. We can see how those limits and boundaries are determining what we can experience in the pool. When we see how different the surface is from the depth and breath of the pool, we will be beginning to see differently in everything we experience. we will begin to realize there is a depth and breath to what is occurring. If we allow ourselves see past the surface we will see the limits and boundaries that are creating and containing what is occurring.

In seeing past the surface we will begin to experience the one or more of the of the abilities that individuals call the supernatural powers or the powers of the mystics such as the siddhis. Or, we may experience a physical or emotional healing as we see the cause effect relationship between our choices and the illness or pain that we experience. Or, we may see that the limits we impose on ourselves determining who we think we are and how they are limiting our creative ability. We will see the limits and boundaries that keep us bound are only our judgements, criticisms, guilt, fears, and the like that we are using to protect ourselves. We may realize we have a choice to explore what we fear and what we are using to protect ourselves and our vulnerabilities that cause us to contain ourselves within our limited identity so that we may heal our separation and allow ourselves to become whole again and to live beyond limits that keep you from exploring the infinity of our true nature.

Why meditate - reasons to meditate

Remove the disturbances of mind - silence the mind
Becoming the detached witness - exploring one’s nature
Developing a single point focus - concentrate one’s focus
Purposeful meditation - conscious control to access one half of the creation process
Side Benefits of meditation

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