what is meditation?

everything in creation is energy constantly vibrating at different levels, from the grossest or slower to the subtlest or faster. matter is the grossest, your thoughts are some of the subtlest manifestations of energy.

During Meditation the individual experiences the subtlest levels of his/her energy field. The more the person meditates, the easier it is to experience it. The subtlest levels of energy is where the never-changing, ever-lasting peace resides; at this level you will find infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, Pure God.

Meditation is the Self, experiencing the Self, for the enjoynment of the Self . Wow! this definition can be very abstract or deep. What meditation does is to quite the mind naturally, so the meditator can enjoy some time without thoughts. Did you know the average person has between 60000 to 90000 thoughts per day? Put under perspective, that is a lot of thoughts, and it gets even worst if around 80% of them are involuntary. The average human being conciously produces only 20% or less of the thoughts per day. The more voluntary thoughts you have the greater your conciousness, the more in peace you are, the better your life is.

When you meditate the mind takes a natural route to go deeper than sleep conscious level, it is at this level that our brain waves slow and synchronize and the brain and the heart take a very deep rest, deeper than during sleep. Being the brain and the heart our too more important organs, since we cannot live without either of them, giving them a rest sounds like a great idea. At this level, there is no desire to move, to speak, to think, to feel, no desire at all. The moment in itself satisfies all desires, it is at that moment that the Self is experiencing the Self.

It is a common idea that the more a person thinks the more in control of his/her life is, but is totally the other way around, in fact too much thinking leads to dementia and irrational acting. The least amount of involuntary thoughts you have the best, why?, because that means that you have control over your mind completely. Remember that the way you achieve this is not by trying to control your mind, since meditation itself must be completely effotless, that's why the technique you use is so important. The more you meditate the more control you will have over your mind naturally, effortlessly and kindly. Each meditation will accumulate over the previous one, each day life will get better, the lack of invonlutary thoughts will transform into complete present moment awareness, or living the present moment always.

Ask yourself this question: Which are some of the happiest moments you have in life? A party, the movies, a restaurant, eating, practicing a sport, doing any activity you love to do? What do they have in common? That your mind is completely there with you and it is not wandering in a million things at a time, trying to solve and fix uselessly, wasting amazing amounts of energy that could be used in other ways.

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