Meditation Is Not Something You Can Do

Lets look at meditation, it is something that you cannot do. Meditation is…it is within you, waiting to be revealed. The practice you do to reveal meditation is not to be confused with what arises from it. The simple meditation below will help you to become still naturally where meditation will spontaneously arise of its own volition.

Close your eyes. Sit any way you want but make yourself comfortable. With your mind concentrate upon your physical heartbeat. Feel each beat, concentrate upon it as completely as you can.

As you do this, let your day, worries, and then your body dissolve into each and every heartbeat. When you first start, do this for just a short time of say fifteen minutes in the morning before breakfast.

Do this for ten days, and with each day, you will become used to this. After ten days increase the time to twenty-five minutes. After a month increase it to thirty minutes.

This is simple to do. Do not be swayed by the dialogue that will come up, all the reasons not to mediate, if it helps go back and reread the dialogue that was written earlier, and consider it again. That dialogue goes on. The dialogue is a natural process that each of us needs to go through as all that we don’t need fades away.

Also you can in your daily practice start with at least five minutes of giving thanks for all your problems and obstacles and then move onto your meditation using the method just mentioned. When we start to meditate we can experience the following, imagine what is to follow as a story being told to you by someone you truly admire….

“Deep within us, there is a sway, towards this and away again, like a huge emotional pendulum, swinging back and forth. Either way, you must go there in some form towards your moment of truth. You can go there kicking and screaming and miss the entire thing, the lesson lost, or you can enter it willingly and come out of it, renewed, reborn and alive.

Prayer can help you across the confusion that may arrive. Meditation will show you why you had to make the journey. Prayer will be the light. Meditation will show you where the light and dark come from. Prayer will guide you as you fall into the chasm. Meditation will show you why you had to fall. Prayer will guide you back from your troubles. Meditation will help you to be reborn.”

Consider this and read it again.

As you gain a better practice in your meditation you will find that those things that troubled you will lose their grip, long standing issues and questions will be answered, forgiveness will come to you and you will be able to forgive. You will discover that meditation affirms life and shows you what life is.

Your suffering will not trap you like it used too as you learn how to suffer less. When you suffer less you live more, in that you allow Life to live through you. Life seeks itself through you and when you get in the way, the troubles that you have had become the blockages to living, but thankfully you can learn from them, turning them to opportunities and stepping stones on the path back to your self.

Whenever life seems too much, give thanks for the troubles, meditate, and communicate. When life seems to have no meaning, slow down and listen to the beat of your heart. When life seems complete and has significance, pray, communicate and listen to the beat of your heart. This offers you the language of the sacred and the speech of your soul.

(ENDS)