What Is Meditation

Everyone wonders what it is. How to do it. You mention it and instantly the answer is congratulations. It becomes frightening to mention it, like an embarrassing music choice. I’ve done meditation for years now and I’ve come to grasp the instinct of it I believe. It’s hard to imagine what changes there are for you if you can donate five minutes a day to it. That’s all it takes and it’s simple enough to learn in a few days that five minutes will seem too short. It’s not an art form where you have to learn complex maneuvers, it’s a simple mental twist and boom! You’re a meditation master.

The principal of meditation as we know comes from the East where we picture monks with their eyes closed and possibly exhibiting supernatural abilities. Whatever excites us at a certain point is one of those topics that become an overall goal of meditation. It seems impossible to us Westerns, full of logic and reason (which the East would laugh and say they do that too), that closing your eyes helps anything. There is one path where the East meets West and that is a goal. Plenty of material has been written on success, but very few teach how to reach those goals. You can write lists, make goal cards, or even force yourself to admit failure and go on. All those will fail without the proper mechanics functioning within. With just a few days of experimenting with your mind and body you’ll find it easy to accomplish whatever goals desired.

It’s hard to meditate at first. Just now picturing what to do during it the mind probably turned as blank as one would want. But that’s no good. Accidently success we’ve all had. We want that successive success. And it’s able to be accomplished with meditation.

Start by realizing that most of the world is mental. Your feelings, your thoughts, your desires all come from a mental realization one way or the other. What we need to do is focus in on the cause of the mental feelings. You don’t have to have even your eyes closed to do this. The question is where do these thoughts come from? If you’ve ever heard of sitting behind the 8-ball from pool halls it’s a very similar feeling.

It’s simply put forward like this: To Meditate is to be able to Guide Oneself.

Now that doesn’t mean getting up and going to the bathroom. It doesn’t mean hitting a baseball or having spoken to that particular romantic interest. We can do those things without meditation.

If you’ve never read Freud you wouldn’t know his main philosophy of the ego agrees with Eastern Philosophy as well. You’ve probably, however, heard of Freud. There certain phrases that describe the feeling that being guided elicits. Clicking, for example.

There three parts to us: the body, the mind, and what I like to call The Open. That is where nothing has yet to be decided, that even all the AI or computer math cannot predict what is to come. Because there is an edge of human factor. It’s that human factor that we all seek to master.

Through meditation we cannot be promised success. However by dividing ourselves into an expectation of ourselves we can look outward, and to success. When we have what might be considered static thoughts, something bothering us from enjoying the game or somewhat similar, we are in a state of failure already. Starting up trying to succeed will naturally fail. By finding that edge of remembering your mind should always control the body, you will notice when you find yourself thinking. Perhaps, for some the first time.

I’ve seen success in what I’ve done in the job world as a sign of this. I went from minimum wage with no benefits to a nice payment, benefits, and a better job all at the same location. Right now I’m working at becoming a TV writer, I’ve written for more than ten years. Recently, I’ve written ninety pages on two different scripts and plan on sending in one for evaluation soon. After ten years, why not quit? My question is after ten years why haven’t I quit? Why do I think that I can still break through? It’s nothing to do with my writing. It’s my focus. Why it’s plain and simple to say, after reading this article, keep your mind in control of your body and you’ll succeed. It’s of course not that simple.

Let’s refocus for a moment. Meditation when you opened this page and subscribed and liked and did all of that of course, was the act of closing your eyes and flying. What is it now? We haven’t even thought about where to sit during meditation what position is best. Someone could meditate while driving a bus, long as they feel comfortable with their skills. By focusing on this mind/body dynamic one can find great fun and joy in the art of thinking, something this world desperately lacks. This you will have to discover more for yourself for it is a great moment when you realize the control you have over your beliefs.

But let’s end with a statement more simple. Meditation is the simple art of deciding, redeciding, and confirming. That’s all. It could be whether the sky is blue or red. By picking up the thought we want and discarding the others, here is the simple act of meditating. Certainly I was distracted at my job sometimes, we sometimes get busy in customer service. But I always when I needed to, brought my attention back to my goal. Whether it was a sentence, a feeling, or something I was able to muster the feeling of success back through meditation. Because when I knew I wasn’t thinking first, guiding myself in my actions I had great days. On busy days it became harder to guide myself and I acted like a robot doing the bare minimum.

I’ll give three different exercises from easiest to hardest, because ideally you came to this page to learn a little bit about meditation. The first is sit down and spend five minutes debating something, whether it’s the news or sports doesn’t matter just something to spark your mind. The second is to debate something again and not hold onto anything; simply let the mind flow maybe you have some ideas to discard before you can stimulate for the next. Do that until you feel good again. Watch as ideas surprise you. The third is to meditate in a chair, mat, wherever and do so with the eyes open or eyes closed. Just sit still for five minutes and when it’s time to finish debate why you want to finish.