Hello All! I have been interested in meditation for about 6 years, but never got serious until now. I would like to know if you can share some of your breakthrough changes resulting from meditating. For example, any fears or suppressed emotions that were released. -Sonny
Yoga is often defined as the integration of mind, body and spirit and so meditation works on the mind, body and spirit. If you do not exercise these three aspects of your self they wither. If you work on one aspect it causes effects in the other two. In the physical sheath you have the asanas or postures/ sequences designed to allow the physical body to relax. If the physical body can relax then the mind can also relax. If the mind is relaxed then the physical body is relaxed. Meditation has got to be the most sensual experience the body can have. It is just the feel good factor. The pursuit of pleasure is nice but remember it is all transient and one should not dwell on this but live in the real world. If you meditate and leave the real world behind you are probably dead. Everything is a balance. To me I can appreciate creation of all around and in me. Shanti.
I stated my path in the '60's reading about Maharishi yogi of the Beatles fame/ hippy movement combined with buddhist ideas. My life has always had meditation as a tool by my side. I have slowly grown into a yoga teacher/ therapist by following my own path and invite others along that path. I have no set meditation schedule but when I feel a meditation coming on it spontaneously occurs. The less you organise but the more you accept the better you get. Daily I run or cycle for 1hr to my swimming pool for half hour swim before work. A brief yoga workout is combined with that. When I do my running and cycling I consider this is also a form of meditation, the meditation of one-pointedness. I am a naturist.
Thanks for sharing. Are you at the point where you can create consciously the people and situations that come into your life?
well i'm on the beginning side of all of this, but yoga has really brought me in sync with my body. i'm more aware of my physical, mental, and emotional needs. and meditation has really helped me with a lot of self-realization and big picture type thinking. and energy work, well i just think it's fun.
Not sure where you are with this? Creation of people is only a sperm breaths away? Creation of situations- If anger flows meditation allows it to dissolve. If I find a period of melancholy coming on I go into nature and then smile. Situations arise which challenge me and because I am a yogi I react in a certain way.
Life mirrors attention. It appears "meditation" is an isolated space, this is not so, there are no idle thoughts. The reason peace unfolds in meditation is because we have chosen to cultivate the space. At other times we choose other things. The first challenge that peace faces is the desire to be rid of it.
They reason why I asked was because there are many times in my life that I run into people and situations that I needed to because of my mindset at those times. The more i'm aware of it, the more it happens.
That is clear now. Yoga changes you that is inevitable. Some learn to love the divine spark of life that is in every living thing. Harming that divine spark would only harm the universal divine spark that it comes from and goes to, and in its turn would harm your own divine spark. I see people in a non-threatening way and so am usually not threatened in return. I think it was our chap Mahatma Gandhi who walked into a war-zone with no weapon and remained unharmed. I am a medical professional and work with drug abusers and criminals. None have seemed threatening towards me since I see the good in them above the 'evil' (do not like that word). There is an idea that if one needs people they often come because you are receptive. Perhaps you give out an aura that others may 'read'. I perceive that naturists live naked and have learned to love the human body but not to abuse it. Naturists often do not feel threatened when they do not wear clothes but perhaps more able to trust others (not a precise science). Keep working on that outlook and good will come your way. What you need will often come when you are least expecting it. Always walk in the light since you cannot serve two masters Love and light
Thank you. All of what you said really puts it in a better perspective for me. Your right on when you say, "what you need will often come when your least expecting it." From what I understand this happens because there is no attachment to it anymore.
If you seek the light you will have an expectation and this can lead to disappointment. If you just allow the light into your life you will realise it was probably always there. When you look for something you cannot find it, when it is with you there is no need to look for it I think in meditation one needs to forget the desire to meditate for a reason, just allow it into your life. Then the question "are you a meditator?" seems pointless. The question should be returned as "are you not a meditator?" I suspect we all meditate but do not realise we do it. Meditation is like exercise when you find that little muscle you did not realise was there. Meditation lets you find that elusive brain cell that you did not realise was there. Fun is it not? I like this to reflect on: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8101989694941061600&ei=EbfAS4-IFJmW-AbA0ZSrDg&q=kundalini+energy&hl=en#
Hi, I have heard about it since long ago but I never tried it. Would you please tell me something about it and how to do it or the adantages got from it.
I started meditating when I was fourteen and have been doing it so long that I am no different from anyone. I just have to meditate or I feel unbalanced. Otherwise all the mystical magickal stuff is just bullshit to me.
i tried Won Buddhism once, i can't say there were any breakthroughs or anything, but after meditation i surely felt a sense of happiness and relaxation for a short period thereafter try it!
This is something that can be experienced not explained: The body is dependent on the mind The mind is depended on the consciousness Consciousness is dependent on awareness Awareness is depended on the absolute There is no separation in absolute The above words reflect ignorance.
