Meditation is the process of turning inwards to draw upon the enormous resources that are within.
The word ‘meditation’ comes from:
‘medi’ meaning ‘to heal’
and ‘ation’ meaning ‘the art/act/process of healing.’ The thoughts which bring me back to my conscience and to my higher (original) self.
‘Original’ means ‘from the origin, from the self.’
We are made of love and all we have to do is sit quietly to find this within. Once found, bring it out!
Mindfulness meditation is about becoming aware of your thoughts.
If we go over and over something wrong that we did it doesn’t help and we ‘increase’ it by making it into a burden. It is much better to use our energy to repair than live with regret and repentance.
Begin with repairing your relationship with yourself. If I have thought badly about myself my heart will have shut down and I go ‘fishing’ for love/approval/respect etc. outside. Observe your thoughts about yourself and change/replace them, be merciful towards yourself.
When I have a good relationship with myself then my thoughts will be right and my heart will be receiving good energy (loving thoughts) from my head. My heart then feels it is safe to open up and be truthful.
Situations come to tell us we aren’t emerging a quality we have, so that we can emerge, taste it and know we have it. We only search for what we have already experienced. We just look in wrong places.
With meditation I can learn to improve my concentration. To change my thought patterns and develop concentration:
1. See the funny side of things. This is a way to dissolve negative thoughts.
2. Take time out, I need to be aware of those wasteful and negative thoughts.
3. Begin to give attention to concentration:
– Read something with concentration, without losing your attention. Create this pattern of habit.
– Take one sentence from what you have read and think about that one thing. Focus on it and explore it. Sit with your own thoughts.
– After some practice you won’t need something written. Then those thoughts will lead into an experience inside. You will be able to feel what you think, the positive and encouraging thoughts you have consciously chosen.
