Meditation can be truly life-changing, especially for people who have never meditated before. It can seem overwhelming when you don't know where to start, so we have put together a guide to help you understand what meditation is and the benefits. Here is a quick overview, select the title to be taken to that section:
What is meditation
Why should we meditate?
Understanding the Lower Mind
Releasing the Lower Mind with meditation
The benefits of meditation
Meditation aids
Understanding Meditation
Meditation is a word that is used A LOT, especially at the moment, it is a fast-growing recommendation in all walks of life, it is even now recommended by doctors. But what is meditation? Hearing the word is one thing, but when it comes to doing it, gosh it can seem completely overwhelming. Let's start by understanding what meditation is.
What is meditation?
Meditation allows us to listen to the Universe and hear its wisdom and guidance. It is an exercise in mind training that allows us to be in a state of focused awareness so we can access the Universal Mind. We use meditation to get past the Lower/left/logical/ego/distracted/shouty/monkey Mind and connect with the Higher/right/intuitive/whispering/peaceful Mind and all higher energies in the cosmos.
The human mind is unbelievably powerful and yet we are rarely taught even its basic workings, let alone how to grasp an advanced understanding of it. We have been taught to think, think and then think some more because the mind has all the answers, but does it really?! The overworked mind jumps from one thought to another and back again and then onto another amassing in the region of 60,000 thoughts every single day!
Why should we meditate?
Imagine deciding that we are going to walk to a specific place. In order to get there, we would naturally take the most direct and accessible route. So what would happen if we took a couple of steps and then turned right, took another couple of steps and changed direction and then continued to do this again and again and again? Oh my word, the chances of getting to our destination would be so remote, but this is how our mind works, jumping from one thought to another, getting distracted, changing direction all the time and never keeping focused on the goal. If we cannot focus on the destination of choice then the chances are we won't get there and if we do it will only be by chance.
Understanding the Lower Mind
Working in isolation, the Lower Mind becomes stressed and frustrated even though it likes to feel important and in charge. It can't cope with doing the jobs of the body, emotions and spirit as they each have a distinctly different and vitally important role to play in helping us live our lives in a balanced and harmonious way.
Childhood conditioning and education taught us at a very early age to get out of our body and into our mind; our Lower Mind. It was then celebrated and championed as the master and it valiantly took control and started calling all the shots. Now don't get me wrong, the Lower Mind has a very important job to do, but it got promoted to a position of authority that it never signed up for. It was working far too hard and having been assigned a variety of jobs that weren't its responsibility, it was never going to be able to fulfil all of these roles.
Releasing the Lower Mind with meditation
The Lower Mind was always meant to be working in harmony with the body, emotions and spirit.... each having their own unique and very specific role to play in co-creating a magnificent holistic symphony that is our life experience.
So the Lower Mind needs to become the servant instead of the master and take a well-deserved rest. For most of us, it has worked far too hard for far too long and meditation gives us the opportunity to bring all 4 aspects of ourselves (body, mind, spirit and emotions) back into healing and balance.
We have the power to take back control and have the Lower Mind working the way we want, with discipline, focus, and clarity. I love the Lower Mind, it is just very misunderstood. We need to show it love, kindness and some radical new boundaries.
When we calm and organise the Lower Mind and keep it unwaveringly focused, which in turn organises the physical body, the emotions and the spirit. This is how we become empowered; when all our actions are properly directed and we take conscious action instead of being in a constant state of compulsive and habitual action.
The benefits of meditation
There are so many benefits to meditating, some we have already covered, but here are my favourite reasons that using meditation can benefit your life.
Manifesting with meditation
By doing this we are choosing to be the creator of our reality instead of just existing as a part of creation. This makes manifestation a simpler and far more successful process. When the mind is ordered it is a total game-changer. The way we think is the way we feel so our emotions become ordered. When the mind and emotions are ordered the body becomes ordered and when they are all pointing in the same direction then our energy is ordered, efficient and effective. Full house!
When all 4 are organised we become the creator and can manifest, but for this process to work, it is essential to have a positive mindset. Negative thoughts can be eliminated by having faith and trust, but if we have no connection to the source of all creation then how can we have any faith and trust in it? We simply wouldn't trust someone we didn't know and it takes experiencing source/creator/God in meditation to build that relationship and trust.
Letting go with meditation
The Lower Mind loves to think it has everything under control, but the Universe has the grand plan for our lives so letting go of control is vital. What is that control anyway? A fear of change? How does this control benefit us? It doesn't, it just stops us flowing with the natural current and divine order that leads to our best possible life. Meditation helps us to accept the grand plan that the Universe has for us.
When life is not happening the way we think it should be then we tend to be unhappy about it because we have been taught to impose so many restrictions on ourselves...... more control! Without thinking we let past experiences dictate what is possible or not possible in our life. Meditation can help us to free ourselves from the shackles of confinement and limitation and let life happen freely and spontaneously.
Finding peace with meditation
If we approached life differently, open to infinite possibilities, then we could choose to be happy in any moment regardless of what is happening at the time, knowing that everything is happening as it should and life is responding to us. It's a choice we can make at any time. We can choose this or something better!
By simply striving for what we want (for our highest good) then anything is possible. We can create our reality by using our positive thoughts in the most powerful way. The Universe loves us to have clarity and responds readily to it, so we have to get really clear on what it is that we want. In a nutshell, all we really ever want is a life filled with joy, peace and loving relationships as any specifics will fall into one of these categories. No specifics are required, we just need to keep it really simple as the Lower Mind loves complexity. So we need to focus on peace, love and joy and then commit ourselves to creating it.
When this happens we are able to experience physical health and pleasure, mental peace and calm, emotional love and compassion and spiritual bliss and ecstasy. Now wouldn't that be nice? Well, it is possible with meditation.
Meditation aids
Crystals provide us with the most magnificent support during meditation. They can ground us, quiet the lower mind and then allow us to create a divine connection so we can receive wisdom and guidance. Meditation takes practice, patience and perseverance and I for one will take all the help I can get from my crystals to make it a more pleasurable and rewarding experience. We will explore crystals for meditation an other meditation aids in a separate blog posts.
Wrapping up
So let's be crystal clear that meditation isn't just a 20-minute practice we do every day in isolation. It creates a connection with the Universe so powerful that we want to infuse the rest of our day and entire life with it and the resulting sense of calm connectedness will ensure a life filled with peace, love and joy.
Meditation is the best life we choose for ourselves.
Love and crystal blessings,
Tiggy xx
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