How to meditate

Meditation is easy. If you feel the need, just do the following:

Take a deep breath letting the physical body relax.
Take a 2nd deep breath letting the mind focus.
Take a 3rd deep breath letting the mind elevate.

Thats it. Don’t worry about posture or where the mind goes. In time, those things will sort themselves out. Yes, I know that many meditative disciplines involve more than three breaths. However, all meditations will eventually produce relaxation, focus and elevation, either through their process or as a result of their process. Note that there are as many ways to meditate as there are people so don’t get bogged down with the process. I prefer going straight to the horses mouth and then let your unique nature express itself without getting stuck in the details.

In this time of high energy and change it isn’t a mystery that there are more and more people meditating. Meditation has a tendency to smooth things out, making what might be seem as untenable, tolerable or even acceptable. Why is this?

Meditation results in an elevation in consciousness. I have found that this is not only evident during my process of meditation but, given the chance, in my daly life. Now, that doesn’t mean that through meditation I’ve become a know it all. But it has allowed me to see situations from a more universal point of view. The universe is non-personal so it helps me to become less judgemental. It has been the judgemental attitude that gets me into trouble. You know, the what goes around comes around, thing.

So meditation has allowed me to become more tolerant of personal surprises but also world events. This hasn’t made me more complacent, but it has helped me to see a broader picture. When the broad picture is seen, it is easer to either accept events as Inevitable, or change them, or to just let them go. That attitude creates a more balanced Sam. The more balanced Sam is less apt to increase world chaos and more apt to create world balance.

What do you think?

Sam