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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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