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Meditation
 
Everyone benefits from meditation. Even those who practice it solely for physical and/or mentalreasons benefit by the positive changes that occur in attitudes and emotions.There are many different types and methods of meditation and aspirants should select what best suitsthem or what attracts them most. The important thing is to
start
and then
persist
. One may be progressively 'self-guided' to what is most suitable according to one's need and degree of vibration i.e. degreeof enlightenment. Some meditation focuses on attaining peace of mind and bodily health; some call for focusing the mind on some specific problem, thought or aspect of something; part of Buddhist meditation isto keep the focus at all times on what one is doing in the moment; and another calls for completely clearingthe mind of everything and "entering the void". As I see it, the last mentioned is the 'deepest' meditation, theone that opens the practitioner to his or her greatest potential, whatever that may be in accordance with theindividual's state of being and state of mind.Meditation is not an end in itself, it is a disciplinary process that clears the mind of all the mind'screations, thus opening the way to Absolute Reality, the Truth, or the Great Spirit - all the same. One may saythat Absolute Reality is where all is known, but this would be incorrect because, firstly, 'where' suggests a place or point and it is neither; and secondly, "all is known" suggests a quantifiable sum of knowledge whichit is not.
ψOne way to achieve deep meditation
The best time is at around dawn, when there is stillness in the air. The best environment is solitudeand quiet. However, where the time is concerned, it is not always possible to do this at dawn or at the sametime each day but, whatever the time, it is best if the meditation is done each time at the same point in thehabitual sequence of events. Best results are obtained when one meditates when the body and mind areconditioned by a habitual pattern leading up to meditation and at a time before the commencement of theday’s main mental and physical activities.
1.
Choose a place, by trial and error if necessary, which meets the above criteria, a comfortable chair, or bedto sit on, or a place on the floor. You may sit cross-legged or, in the chair, with the legs extended on asupport, or with the legs flexed. It is important to keep your back straight (but not stiff); you may support it if you wish. Place your hands loosely and comfortably in your lap with the fingers of one hand inside those of the other.
2.
Get comfortable and relax. Loosen tight garments if any.
3.
To assist relaxation, inhale deeply through the nose and exhale fully through the mouth. Do this threetimes, with the inhaling and exhaling being at moderate speed. Wiggle shoulders and neck if required torelax the muscles.
4.
Close your eyes lightly but fully.
5.
It helps if you have a sequence of prayers, an affirmation or a sequential visualization at this point. Thiswill help you drift away from worldly thoughts.
6.
Try to do your 'seeing' through the "third eye" (6th chakra). You may feel a sensation between, and justabove, the eyebrows - this is normal, and indicates the effectiveness of what you are doing.If you see colours, or swirling coloured clouds, moving pinpoints of light etc. watch them peacefully for a bitand then 'take yourself behind them’, as if you were moving through a screen on which they were playing.You have to move beyond, or behind at some point.
7.
If thoughts keep flitting across your mind or try to get your attention - the purpose of meditation is to stillthe mind - do not fight them, just gently 'see yourself' gently picking them up and putting them away outsideyour 'area of vision', or give them to your god or Master, or put them gently into a golden box; any symbolicreceptacle - keep on 'looking' beyond what is in front of you, going deeper and deeper - you may be aware of thoughts around you at the edge of where you are; gently ignore them - eventually, there will be 'nothing','stillness' - the void. Do not stress.
8.
Stay in the void for as long as happens. With practice this period will get longer. Let it take its course.
9.
Next you will 'wake up', perhaps slowly, and time has passed although it felt like a few minutes, if that.You have been meditating!
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Mohamad Azzam F. Sekheta

I am willing to practic your tips as I feel you are really wise man with big heart too Grretings from Serbia

reply04 / 25 / 2010
Ian Gardner

Greetings to you too, my friend. May this help you. Ian.

04 / 27 / 2010
susan-schiller

Hello Ian, Thank you for your kind words, I remember reading a book about TM many years ago and intend to use your instruction. Finally I am going back to some things that are meaningful to me.

reply11 / 24 / 2009
Ian Gardner

PS. re. "Finally I am going back to some things that are meaningful to me." It often happens that we are "given a rest" from certain activities which are re-introduced to us when the time is right.

11 / 25 / 2009
Ian Gardner

Susan, TM is a commercialised technique of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I do not know anything about it although there is a lot on Google about it. The last I heard from a devotee of the Maharishi a couple of years ago was that he was having legal problems in patenting TM. My observation to the devotee that I was astonished that a Maharishi would be thus involved flabbergasted him!

11 / 25 / 2009
Ian Gardner

NB. It is said that 10 minutes of meditation is equivalent to 40 minutes of sleep.

reply11 / 20 / 2009
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