Meditation
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Meditation is an activity that we can develop to clear our minds of negative feeling such as worries, anxiety and other stressful conditions to create peace and harmony within us.
Meditation is to the mind what food, rest and exercise is to our body. We should make effort to maintain a health body and a peaceful mind. Meditation helps to create peace of mind.
Meditation may be broadly categorised into three types: Positive Thinking, Religious Thinking and Raja Yoga.
Positive Thinking
The aim of positive thinking is to experience the feelings of peace for our happiness and health.
All that is required is to sit alone in comfort and silence with possibly some soothing music to observe our thoughts. Observing our thoughts means to reflect upon the thoughts rather than to react to them.
By observing in solitude, you will often gain a better understanding of past events and present situations. Reactions to our thoughts create either desires or worries that often lead to the creation of problems out of ordinary situations.
In meditation, we do not stop thinking. We just observe our thoughts. We do not judge but rather "watch" our thoughts. We avoid being carried away by our own thoughts.
Gradually, our thoughts will simmer down and we shall being to feel more peacefu, just as a pot of boiling water will simmer down and become cool when the heat is removed.
To feel the peace, we create the thought "I am a peaceful being" and experience that peace, quiet and stillness within us.
We try to maintain this experience for as long as we are able to without being concerned by any thoughts or past memories that may distract us. Just watch them pass by and return to the created thought of " I am a peaceful being".
Acknowledge and appreciate the positive feelings and other positive thoughts that may spring directly from this one thought. Remember attainments and experience the happiness we felt.
Be aware of negative feelings and memories that may appear. Just ignore them. We want to be experience feelings of love and happiness. We consciously avoid feelings of hatred, worries, regrets or sorrow because we do not need these negative thoughts.
Finish the meditation by closing our eyes for a few moments and creating complete silence in our minds.
Another Positive Thinking meditation exercise we may try is to spend a little time sitting in comfort, in total silence, in a softly lit room focussing the thoughts on the centre of the forehead.
Feel the energy glowing and the sparkle in that location. A number of thoughts are suggested below to help focus the mind to be soul-conscious:
I, the soul, am a point of light
A tiny point of light
I sit in the centre of my forehead This is the real I the real me my physical body is but a costume
Which I, the living energy, use to express my being to express my personality...
Now I realise my true identity I have unlocked my prison door I am now free
Like a bird, I can fly once again I now emerge my true nature, that of peace
I experience that peace I become that peace I am that peace I experience my true nature
That of light I become that light I am that light I experience that light
I experience my true nature that of love I become that love I am that love
Now power is being filled in the soul the lightness and ease become my nature
Now no longer the slave but the master of this body
I spread light and peace and purity into the world.
Religious Thinking
All religions teach us to believe in GOD and restrict our thoughts to virtuous thoughts that will enable us to be happy and peacefu which are all forms of meditation where we accept God as our creator, protector and sustainer.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga is the meditation practice that combines Positive Thinking and Religious Thinking to link or establish a relationship directly with the one Supreme Soul.
For this form of meditation, we need to observe strict disciplines to ensure purity in deeds, words and thoughts.
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