Meditation teaches you to let come let go while remaining in charge of your own. Regular practice of meditation can benefit you physically, psychologically and spiritually to make the long haul of your life better by improving the quality of your experience of life.
Meditation benefits your health by bringing order to the natural processes of your life through deep relaxation, right posture, right breathing and right awareness. On the other hand, meditation reduces impact of chronic or early life stress, and improves your sensitivity towards unwholesome way of living.
Psychologically, meditation calms the mind, heals early life impact of turbulent feelings, liberates you from the ossifying idea of self, dispels self-ignorance and relieves you from negativities associated with the Self.
Meditation cannot end or solve your problems and suffering, but meditation can give you helpful insights into your problems and sufferings. Meditation can fix you and you can fix your life, or meditation can upgrade you and you can upgrade your life.
Meditation can make you better but only you can make your life better by living it through right values, principles, ethics, mindset, attitude, actions and impact of actions.
The Right Attitude for Meditation
Meditation should not be narrowly looked upon as street smart quick fix remedy for the mundane issues of day-to-day life. Meditation should not be looked upon as means to fulfill your cravings or ambitions. Though everyone can benefit from stress-relief meditation therapies, not everyone needs them.
Meditation is a natural life-skill just like swimming in the sense that you do not need to learn swimming, but you can improve the quality of life by learning to swim. Learning to meditate is like learning to swim and float, you need to enjoy meditation and you need to practice meditation regularly until you get the hang of it. Once you get the hang or knack of meditation, you will never forget it, just like swimming.
Meditation, Detached Awareness and No-Self
Meditation is an instinctual natural practice of relaxation and stress relief by disengaging and detaching from the known and unknown through right focus of attention which can help to cultivate right mindset and attitude for a meaningfully fulfilled life.
During meditation, you sit in a naturally comfortable posture with straight lower back and withdraw from the known and unknown by staying focused naturally, for example, on breathing at the entrance of nostrils.
You withdraw and stay focused during meditation by constantly paying attention to one natural experience, for example, constant awareness of breath at entrance of nostrils or some single point or one natural sensation like pleasant smell, a flower, or pleasant touch etc.. in such a way that you do not get opportunity to engage in any other tangible or intangible activity.
Without engaging in any tangible or intangible activities, you relax physically, psychologically and remain as seamlessly clear detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context without getting drawn or lost into the known or unknown. In meditation you become detached and fully aware.
Due to seamless clarity of awareness detached from the known or unknown, you can know correctly in the right context as it is and become free from ignorance, including but not limited to self-ignorance.
Aware and detached, you are not controlled by the effect of know and unknown. Aware and detached you become your own master.
Fully aware and detached, knowing correctly in the right context as it is, you can become self-aware without the Self. Free from the Self, you are free from self-ignorance. Without self-ignorance, you are in order and you can put your life and your world in order. Without self, you are fluid like water, harmonious with the world and free from conflict.
Health Benefits of Meditation
Meditation can improve your health by relieving stress, healing impact of chronic stress and improving circulation through right posture and breathing.
Meditation Improves Your Form
Regular practice of meditation can heal the impact of chronic stress and relax your smooth muscles making you supple. By practicing meditation regularly along with other natural exercises like running, swimming, stretching, your physical form improves, you can become flexible, and graceful.
Regular practice of meditation, through right posture, will optimally realign your outer form followed by your inner form and your physiology due to which you look great and feel great.
Due to regular practice of meditation in right posture, the spinal cord is optimally aligned, the nerve impulses going out of the spinal cord is balanced due to which nervous system functions efficiently.
Healthy Circulatory System Through Smooth Muscle Relaxation
Healthy posture, diaphragmatic breathing and relaxed smooth muscles improves circulation of hormones, blood and lymphatic system due to which the circulatory system becomes healthy. Heart, kidney, liver function more smoothly and waste is eliminated more efficiently. This way, meditation can improve your immunity power and your vital force of life.
Healthy Metabolism Through Healthy Respiration
During meditation, you breath in plenty of oxygen without spending it on physical activity. Slow and deep breathing improves respiration due to which, the blood gets optimally charged with oxygen and reaches more areas of body when your mind is calm, body is relaxed, and you are fully aware without inner self. This can rejuvenate you.
Prevent Lifestyle Diseases Through Awareness and Sensitivity
Meditation can improve your sensitivity and awareness keeping you alert about any health imbalances. Meditation can make you aware and sensitive to unhealthy lifestyle and act as a natural check on extreme lifestyles. This can help prevent lifestyle diseases and their exacerbation.
By reducing impact of stress, meditation can complement with conventional therapy and help in managing lifestyle related diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, heart diseases, hormonal imbalances etc.
Improves The Pleasure of Sleep
Meditation engages and improves the parasympathetic system of your nervous system thus enhancing the natural pleasures of your life processes. Meditation gives you the ability to keep mind calm, body relaxed and awareness detached while sleeping.
Aware and detached without any activities in mind you can sleep deeply and know the natural healing pleasure of deep sleep. You can actually know the pleasure of deep sleep if you can meditate while sleeping, with eyes closed and not looking at all without activity in the mind or stress in the body.
Meditation Can Make You Intelligent and Creative
Meditation can refine your natural abilities of creativity, skills and resourcefulness.
By calming the mind and breathing naturally with full awareness, the functioning of brain improves due to supply of oxygen rich blood.
Due to heightened attention and slow deep breathing during meditation, the different regions of brain coordinate more efficiently. When brain function improves, the various systems in body function more efficiently.
Meditation reduces stress and improves physiological and psychological suppleness. When combined with training, practice and other exercises, meditation can enhance your cognitive skills and improve physical and mental dexterity. By making you physically and psychologically supple, meditation can improve your ability to focus your attention and learn effortlessly.
Meditation can evolve you and it can improve your performance stamina, whether creative or professional. Meditation might also improve your involuntary intuition and add a touch of sublimity to your creativity through insight.
Meditation relieves the psychological fetters of inner-self, self-conception, self-ideation, self-identity etc. Free from the notion of self, you become psychologically formless, fluid in actions, well adapted and resourceful through acute awareness of your advantages and resources.
Free from limiting self, you are inspired and assisted by the infinite options of diverse present reality. By being creative, skillful and resourceful you feel secure and confident in the changing uncertainty of life and society.
Spiritual Benefits of Meditation
You are awareness the ephemeral spirit of life. Spirit is pattern arising due to dynamic interaction of it’s harmoniously integrated constituent cause and conditions. Though spirit is beyond it’s constituent cause and conditions, spirit is neither eternal nor supernaturally independent of it’s constituent cause and conditions.
Clear seamless detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context, is a spirit of right knowing arising from orderly life processes improved through deep meditation.
Detached reflecting clear seamless awareness giving rise to self-awareness without the self is a spiritual phenomenon arising due to deep meditation. Deep meditation is a naturally rich process of life akin to hibernation due to which you are deeply relaxed, naturally rejuvenated and restored.
Through regular practice of deep meditation, you can remain self-aware and detached without the Self. Detached and self-aware without the Self, you feel secure and at peace away from all the negativity that arises due to self.
Becoming Whole by Healing the Inner Child Through Meditation
Through meditation you can become whole by reconnecting with your lost rich natural innocence.
Meditation can heal the early life child lodged deep inside you by restoring your rich natural innocence and cultivating meta-natural qualities like awareness, sensitivity, empathy, compassion etc. necessary for sustainable welfare and happiness of all reciprocating life forms in the present and in the future.
Hence, spiritual enlightenment is nothing but recognizing and remembering the forgotten stress-free selfless infantile feeling felt in the peace and security through powerful loving mother.
Meditation Help to Achieve Personal Goals and Objectives
Meditation can not only rejuvenate and energize you but also make you more aware, sensitive, empathetic and compassionate towards yourself and towards others. Sensitive towards pain and pleasure of yourself and of others, you strongly feel about why you want to meet your goals or the objective behind meeting your goal. Thus, you naturally get motivated to take action to achieve your goals.
Memory and Insight into Your Forgotten Past
Practice of deep meditation can unravel your early life forgotten experiences and give you rare insights into yourself and your past. It is a great learning experience from your own forgotten memories, feelings and personal history.
Impersonal Love and Compassion
Without self and self-ignorance, you are more harmonious and caring towards other life forms and yourself.
Aware and detached without self, you know correctly in the right context due to which you are more sensitive and empathetic towards yourself and other life forms. Heightened sensitivity and empathy can make you compassionate and loving but in an impersonal manner.
Spiritual Awakening
Spiritual awakening is rise in the intensity and clarity of awareness, the ability to know clearly, due to deep subliminal stress relief and improved vitality. It is a meta-natural phenomenon.
Metaphorically, spiritual awakening is like increase in the phenomenon of brightness due to increase in light. Just like you can see clearly in the brightness of light, so also you can know better in the seamless clarity of awareness due to spiritual awakening.
Spiritual Enlightenment is to Recognize Yourself Through Intuitive Insight
Seamlessly clear detached awareness without self is spiritual benefit of meditation due to which you know correctly in the right context.
Reflecting seamlessly clear detached awareness makes you self-awareness without self, due to which you know the truth of your nature correctly in the right context. Through meditation you can get spiritually enlightened and know the truth of your nature correctly in the right context.
Enlightenment is to recognize the natural truth. Enlightenment is like recognizing that the beautiful silk rope in the dark is actually a snake or snake in the dark is actually a beautiful silk rope.
Spiritual enlightenment is to recognize the truth of your nature. Spiritual enlightenment is to directly recognize through intuitive insight the truth of your nature as if you were never corrupted since the beginning of your life throughout your birth, growth and maturity. It is to recognize and remember the truth of your nature as if it was never corrupted by the strings of self.
Spiritual enlightenment dispels self-ignorance and all the negativities associated with self-ignorance. You become naturally rich as if never corrupted.
Meditation Improves Your Life Through You
There is no supreme creator or supreme controller to answer your prayers or shower you with grace. Nothing gets better through prayer or grace if the constituent cause and conditions are not improved.
Meditation is one of the means to improve personal cause and conditions. Regular practice of meditation can benefit you by making you better so that you can make the long haul of your life better and meaningful.
Meditation Improves Cause and Conditions of Your Life
Meditation is a one of the causes that can change physical, psychological and spiritual conditions of your life in order to make you and your life better.
Meditation can improve your life if practiced regularly along with right changes in your lifestyle. Your life can significantly improve if you regularly practice meditation while living through right philosophy of life based on right ideas, ethics, values and principles.
Meditation may not change your circumstances, but it can change you. Meditation may not fulfill your worldly desires, but it can fulfill you naturally and liberate you from unnecessary cravings and aversions. You may stop depending on external sources for happiness. Through meditation, you may outgrow unnecessary cravings and aversions.
Meditation will help you to stop worrying about problems. Meditation may not solve your problems, but meditation can make you strong and resilient to face and overcome your problems. Meditation changes you as a person due to which you make better choices for better reasons.
Meditation and Right Philosophy of Life
Meditation is to be natural, and scope of nature is great. Free from self, through meditation, you are synchronous with greater natural scheme of life.
Free from self-ignorance in forms like self-conception, self-ideation, self-identification, inner self or self-image, you can live unafraid spontaneously with the great natural flow of life unaffected by personal likes or dislikes, you can act harmoniously in the right conditions without striving and you can impact benevolently without interfering.
Fully aware and detached from known and known, through meditation you find the north star in the wilderness of life. Fully aware without self, you can live impersonally with more sensitivity, empathy and compassion.
Aware and detached, you know correctly in the right context as it is and discriminate real from unreal, true from false, good from bad, right from wrong, positive from negative and auspicious from inauspicious.
Through meditation you can improve the quality of your life experience and you can learn to live your life meaningfully in the greater scheme of life.
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