Why should we meditate?
Many people view meditation as:
Boring, Esoteric, Ascetic, Unproductive, Difficult, Wimpy
In fact, meditation is:
Interesting, Familiar, Sensual, Extremely productive, Natural, Powerful
Meditation is the practice and process of paying attention and focusing
your awareness. When you meditate, a number of desirable things begin
to happen — slowly, at first, and deepening over time.
First, when you can focus your awareness, you gain more power. When you concentrate any form of energy, including mental energy, you gain power.
When you focus your mind, you concentrate better. When you concentrate
better, you perform better. You can accomplish more, whether in the classroom, in the board room, or in the athletic arena. Whatever you do, you can do it more effectively when you meditate. It is for this reason that spiritual teachers and texts often caution that one should begin the practice of meditation only in the context of other spiritual practices and disciplines that help develop compassion and wisdom to use properly this increased power.
Second, you enjoy your senses more fully. Although people sometimes view or use meditation as an ascetic experience to control their senses, meditation
also can enhance your senses in ways that are profoundly sensual. Anything
that you enjoy — food, sex, music, art, massage, and so on — is greatly
enhanced by meditation. When you pay attention to something, it’s a lot
more enjoyable. Also, you don’t need as much of it to get the same degree of
pleasure, so you are more likely to enjoy without excess.
When you keep a wall around your heart to armor and protect it from pain, you also diminish your capacity to feel pleasure. When your life is in a continual rush, you may miss exquisite pleasures that exist from moment to moment.
Attention spans get shorter. The need for stimulation continually increases just to feel anything. Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.
Third, your mind quiets down and you experience an inner sense of peace, joy, and well-being.
Fourth, you may directly experience and become more aware of the transcendent interconnectedness that already exists. You may have a direct experience of God or the universal Self, whatever name you give to this experience.
Meditation is simple in concept but difficult to master. Fortunately, you don’t
have to master meditation to benefit from it. You just have to practice. No
one ever really masters it completely, but even a few steps down that road
can make a meaningful difference. It is the process of meditation that makes
it so beneficial, not how well you perform.
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