THE ART OF MEDITATION

« Your mind is a Marvelous Ocean. Surrender to the Inner Silence and discover the Wonderful Places hidden in its depths.”

– Ghizlane Elouazzani

If you are not familiar with meditation, you may well still be wondering, “What is meditation?”

Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is a state of profound, deep peace that occurs when the mind is calm, silent and clear, yet completely alert.

Meditation is not about concentrating, focusing on or visualization… It is about letting go and surrendering to the Inner Silence.

WHEN YOU MEDITATE, THE SILENCE OF THE SENSES ILLUMINES THE PRESENCE OF SOURCE WITHIN.

We hear it all the time; “meditation can improve our creative thinking, our energy, stamina, lower stress and help us sleep better”.

Studies show that meditation is associated with improvement in a variety of psychological areas, including stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, eating disorders and congnitive function, among others. There are also researches to suggest that meditation can reduce blood pressure, pain response, stress hormone levels and even cellular health. But what does it actually do to the body?

1-   BENEFITS OF MEDITATION:

-      - Meditation brings the brainwave pattern into an ALPHA STATE that promotes healing. The mind becomes fresh, delicate and beautiful.

-      - It improves Emotional Stability.

-    - Increases Creativity.

-       Increases happiness.

-       With meditation you can gain clarity and peace of the mind.

-       It sharpens the mind by gaining focus, and expands it through relaxation; which creates balance, in ones life.

-       The person becomes more aware of their Inner attitude and happiness.

-       It releases accumulated stress and anxiety that are in the system; leaving it refreshed, focused and joyful.

-       Lowers High Blood Pressure.

-       Decreases any tension- related pain such as; tension headaches, ulcers, and insomnia, muscle and joint problems.

-       Increases Serotonin production that improves mood and behavior.

-       Improves Immune System.

-       Increases the Energy Level.

-       Helps you release negative energy by cleansing and nourishing you from within and helping you find peace, harmony, happiness AND ALIGN YOU WITH YOUR HIGHER SELF.

With the assimilation of meditation into daily life, your consciousness evolves and in time, is able to experience the higher and refined states of consciousness.

2-   BABY STEPS TO MEDITATION:

The habit of meditation is one of the best things I’ve ever learned. It is also one of the simplest habits to do – you can do it anywhere and anytime… There are lots of way to meditate, but your concern is not to find a perfect form of meditation–(all forms of meditation are perfect) – It is to form the daily habit of meditation.

So here’s how to meditate:

PICK THE RIGHT TIME FOR YOU: 

A general time of the day, like the morning when you wake up, or the afternoon. The goal is to be able to meditate regularly.

 FIND A QUIET SPOT:

Sometimes early the morning is the best, before others in the house wake up and make a lot of noise. It really does not matter where- as long as you can sit (or lay down) without being bothered, for a few minutes-.

After a few months or years of daily meditation you will be able to meditate anywhere… Your ability to focus, concentrate and ignore what is around you will improve dramatically.

START WITH JUST 5 MINUTES:

 

Most of people will think they can meditate for 15- 30 minutes very easily the first time (some can). But if you are trying to form a longer- lasting habit then starting with just 5 minutes will be easier.  Forming a habit with a small start like this, is a way to success.

You can expand to 10 minutes, if you can do it for 14 days straight, then 15 minutes if you can stick to it for 30 days.

A whole month is enough to form a habit and make sure you will stick to it.

FOCUS ON YOUR BEATHING:

 

Take 1, 2, 3 long breaths in… 5,6,7,8 breaths out. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. It won’t be easy at first, but you will get better with practice.

When your consciousness evolves and expands, the disturbances in your life become negligible. Anger and any negative emotions become feeling emotions that occur momentarily and then vanish. You start living in the NOW and LET GO of the past and your worries about the future.

GETTING INTO THE VORTEX GUIDED MEDITATIONS AND USER GUIDE BY ABRAHAM HICKS:

For those of you who are familiar with The Law Of Attraction or prefer guided meditation CDs, I recommend trying Abraham’s guided meditations.

I listen to the meditations everyday and I really LOVE THEM!

Start by listening to the Preface and Abraham’s Introduction and read the User Guide, then when you’re ready, start listening to the meditations. Do it at least for 30 days. You will notice MARVELOUS CHANGES in every area of your life. 

Get it straight from Abraham's website here:

 Abraham Hicks’ Website here. 

OR FROM AMAZON HERE!

Meditation is easy to learn and master, with perseverance it becomes the most rewarding thing you ever do. It takes practice to achieve a peaceful state of being, and there is no question that patience is a key component of your progress and success. 

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Read more about:  

  - ‘The Value of Conscious Breathing by ABRAHAM HICKS’ HERE.

 

-  ' Meditation ByAbraham Hicks' HERE.

MEDITATION by ABRAHAM HICKS

"Meditation, the Practice of Allowing Well-Being. Many teachers, we are among them, teach meditation, because meditation, when you achieve it effectively, means you distract yourself from the physical stuff. It’s like a withdrawal of consciousness when you are still awake. When you are asleep you withdraw consciousness too. But when you slumber and withdraw consciousness, your consciousness is not consciously aware of what it feels like to be in that higher vibration. But when you are awake and in a state of meditation, now you are consciously aware of what it feels like to be in that higher vibration.  Which means,you will be more aware when your vibration dips. Use Meditation as a Process to Allow Connection to Source Energy.
Sometimes people say: “Abraham is it normal for all hell to break loose in someone’s life when they begin the meditation process?” And we say, yes, because what happens is you are bringing yourself to a place of heightened sensitivity, so that formerly achieved patterns of lower vibration are less comfortable to you. There are other ways than meditation: Appreciation, a rampage of appreciation raises vibration. Listening to music that makes your heart sing raises vibration. Petting your cat raises vibration, or sitting and watching the river go by… Often you are in your highest states of connection to Source Energy while you are driving. It is the reason that there are fewer traffic accidents, because you are, as a mass consciousness, often more connected when you are driving. Something about the rhythm of the road, or the lack of something to focus upon.

Here is the process of meditation that if we were in your physical places we would utilize: 

Every day for 10 or 15 minutes, and not for much more than that, we would sit quietly by ourselves somewhere. Maybe under a tree, maybe in our car, maybe in the bathroom, someplace where we would not be interrupted.
We would do our best to shut down our physical senses. In other words, we would draw the curtains if it is bright. We would close our eyes. We would put ourselves in a place where there is not much sound. We really would not even play music. Some people play music, but even that can be distracting in nature. Something like the ticking of a clock, or the dripping of a faucet, or the trickling of a waterfall, something of that nature can be very soothing. And some music falls into that same category. But it must be something that does not stimulate thought.
And we would focus inward, even on our breathing. We would be consciously aware of air in, and we would be consciously aware of air out. We would concentrate on long breaths in, and we would concentrate on long breaths out. We would breathe air in, and when we thought it was all our lungs would hold, we would bring still more in. And when we think it is still all our lungs could hold we would breathe more air in. And then, at a place of full expansion of lungs, we would take a long, slow, delicious time to let the air out. And our intention would be nothing more than being in this moment, and being consciously aware of breathing. We would let it be our fullest responsibility. Not fixing breakfast, not combing hair, not wondering how someone is doing, not thinking about yesterday, not worrying about tomorrow, not focusing on anything in this moment except air in, and air out.
Now, during this process, within 2 or 3 days of doing it, you’re going to begin to feel a detachment from your physical experience. A very common thing that you will feel is a sort of numbing sensation. Some describe that they cannot tell their toe from their nose. Some, if their eyes are closed, and we recommend that, may begin to see movement of light around under their eyelids, or even flashes of color.
There is no right or wrong in this process of meditation. There is nothing that you should be reaching for. This is a state of allowing. This is a state where, for just a few moments, you stop running the show. You stop trying to make anything happen. This is your time of allowing. This is your time when you are saying unto your maker, unto your Source Energy, unto your Inner Being, unto your God… whatever you’re wanting to call it, this is your time of saying:

 “Here I be, in a state of allowing.” And what am I allowing?

I’m allowing Source Energy to flow purely through me.

15 minutes a day of that effort will change your life. Because it will put you in the state of allowing the Energy that is natural to you to flow. You’ll feel better in the moment. You’ll feel more energized when you come out of it.
You may spend 14 minutes before you achieve any state of detachment. You might not ever be consciously aware that you’ve achieved any state of detachment. It doesn’t matter, you are making enormous progress as you allow yourself to be.
A big benefit that you’ll notice, right away, is that things that you’ve been wanting will begin showing up. “Now, why is this? Abraham, I didn’t sit and intend. I didn’t sit and set goals. I didn’t sit and clarify what I want. I didn’t tell the Universe what I wanted. How come 15 minutes of just being will set those kinds of things in motion?” Because it has always been, ask and it is given. It has never been “ask and do something right and it is given”. It has never been “ask and get worthy”. It is ask and allow. Ask and allow."
 

From Abraham-Hicks Workshop Ashland, OR — 5/16/2000

 

 

P.S: The image is a picture of the human bio-energy field after meditation taken using Kirlian photography.