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A third reason for meditating is that if
we are beings of infinite creativity and if we look a little
deeper,
beings of infinite consciousness. We create our experiences and
the reality of those experiences by how we focus our attention and
awareness. The more directed or concentrated the focus of our
attention and awareness the more energy we can put into that on
which we focus. The more energy we put in, the greater the
probability we will manifest an experience of what we desire.
If our attention is scattered and fragmented moving from thing to
thing, we will be unable to create to create what we desire and we
will have little to show for our efforts. Without a conscious
focused attention and awareness and mindfulness, we will continually
live in the past. We will respond to our life experiences rather
than proactively creating them.
This third reason to meditate from a creativity perspective is to
become mindful and aware to develop the ability to have a
single point focus to our life. A single point focus coupled
with a strong emotional desire or passion for what we hold with
clear intention allows us to create an experience of what we
desire or to access or be lead to any information about any subject
matter or topic.
If you look carefully, what you can observe is that the smaller the
thing on which you focus your attention the greater your insecurity
will be. You will be constantly worrying about something. The reason
for this is something small is always subject to being over shadowed
by something larger. So, if your attention is always on something
being overshadowed or potentially being overshadowed, how can you be
or feel secure? For example, if you live your life to satisfy the
people in your life, you will have to be constantly having to change
what you worry about. There will always be someone new who comes
into your life or someone from the past how reenters your life whose
opinion or concern is more important than the last important person.
However, if you seek to create something long term that transcends
any one event in your life you become much less troubled. For
example, if your focus and passion is creating a nonprofit
foundation, a new career, a new ability of some type, all your
relationships can be viewed from creating that long term objective.
You can then look to see whether or not any one individual
relationship is helping you or hindering what you desire to create.
Usually you will not be troubled by their comments and concerns that
do not support what you desire to create unless they somehow
interfere with what you desire to create. The awareness of this fact
and using this approach gives an enormous stability in your life.
By meditating and focusing on the nature of the thoughts we have as
a detached witness, we can begin to see how scattered and fragmented
our attention is. We can begin to see what is taking our attention
and where they are, or are not, taking us and directing our life.
Then, in that awareness, we can begin to redirect our thoughts into
what we desire to create. In time we can being to see that we are a
beings of unlimited creativity that has created a puzzle to both
challenge our creativity and to cause us to forget how we created
the experience we have.
We need to forget how we create what we do so we can
experience the reality of our creation. If we remembered how we
created the experience we would tend not stay with the experience
but change it whenever we encountered something we did not like.
We create our experiences by how we focus our attention and
awareness. Unless we learn to make our lives a single point focus
for what we desire to create, we will never learn nor have the
creative power to create the experiences we desire. In using
meditation in this fashion, one does not sit and hold a thought or
image in their mind although that is an accept way. Rather one makes
each decision in their life and movement in their life directed
toward what they want to create. Or, at least become aware of where
we are not choosing in the direction of what we desire and why.
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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