Ever notice when a beer commercial comes on TV the vast majority of the time they are promoting some interesting new feature about the bottle or can, or that it is low in calories or carbs, or that this is the key to having a good time with your buddies, or the elixir of looseness which will score you the hot chick. They will market every possible angle from easy flow can too metal bottles, anything EXCEPT what it tastes like. Sure they will use terms like smooth or crisp, but in the end they know this is not beer for discerning pallets, so they simply make no effort to ballyhoo the flavor. The marketers know people consume their beer because alcohol has an effect, and there interest is that you consume alot of it, so the beer is served cold, chugged not sipped, and has a minimum of ingredients which actually contribute to flavor. Imagine if you savored a bottle of Miller in peace without the ruckus party depicted in the ads, would you have a second? Ultimately what we have is a product with alot of associations without much substance.
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Meditation is being oversold in a similar manner. I have seen all sorts of promises about what can be accomplished. We begin a mediation practice with expectations of streamlining our lives, improved health, balanced emotions, tuning too our destiny, improved sports performance, etc... There are many techniques called meditations which open your third eye so that you can communicate with other dimensions, activate and clear your solar plexus so that you can assume "right action" in the pursuit of prosperity. All of these maybe potential outcomes of mediation or presence, however much like crappy American beer mediation simply cannot guarantee these results. And like crappy American beer presence has no substance, there really is nothing to do when you are meditating. Mediation has many associated outcomes but absolutely no substance. Focus on the desired outcomes and you miss the point, your expectations become the obstacle. When we drink the new Miller Light with the easy flow can we are so distracted by the gimmick we forget we are getting drunk. When we fixate on clearing our Chakras, or changing some fear based aspect of ourselves we forget mediation is presence only and change/flow happens anyway which is the key to real relaxation. The techniques are shallow, mediation is access to all or nothing, blending into all creation or a fall into the void.
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-miller-lite-bottle-2013-3
Meditation is being oversold in a similar manner. I have seen all sorts of promises about what can be accomplished. We begin a mediation practice with expectations of streamlining our lives, improved health, balanced emotions, tuning too our destiny, improved sports performance, etc... There are many techniques called meditations which open your third eye so that you can communicate with other dimensions, activate and clear your solar plexus so that you can assume "right action" in the pursuit of prosperity. All of these maybe potential outcomes of mediation or presence, however much like crappy American beer mediation simply cannot guarantee these results. And like crappy American beer presence has no substance, there really is nothing to do when you are meditating. Mediation has many associated outcomes but absolutely no substance. Focus on the desired outcomes and you miss the point, your expectations become the obstacle. When we drink the new Miller Light with the easy flow can we are so distracted by the gimmick we forget we are getting drunk. When we fixate on clearing our Chakras, or changing some fear based aspect of ourselves we forget mediation is presence only and change/flow happens anyway which is the key to real relaxation. The techniques are shallow, mediation is access to all or nothing, blending into all creation or a fall into the void.
What is meditation? Simply, it’s not an act, it’s not a
practice, it is a state of presence or being. In most practices whether it
be Yoga or Vipassana we are actually working on cultivating a state of stillness,
a condition of focused concentration which eventually falls away into a state
of surrender. We move from control and action to a place of pure witnessing.
All you need to do is witness the ever changing internal environment in which
we exist, this internal environment mirrors the external world which is always
in a state of Generating Organizing and Destroying (get it? G.O.D.).
Eventually we touch the place within in which no action exists; it’s a place of
non flux and stillness. The process leading up to our accessing this space is
filled with our beliefs, identifications, likes and dislikes fantastic ideas
and the mundane. We have to learn to witness and let go. Then we eventually
have to let go of the letting go and simply be present with ourselves, and meet
all that we are at where we are at. We stop moving. Its progression from more
dense to less dense, we stop moving the physical body then we learn to stop the
mind from moving. The mind moves, either it is directed or it moves through
associations. It’s cryptic because in meditation there is no place for the mind
to be directed, there are never words which can accurately describe meditation,
we can only describe a process or objects of witness. So be still, turn inward
and have never ending experiences, just remember the experiences are not the point just the entertainment. Meditation is not focusing on love and light
or dark and hate, it’s not feeling or thinking, it’s not connecting to the
divine mother or divine father; it’s the merger into all. All techniques only
serve to clear the nervous system of clutter and pattern. Concentration (focus on a single point) contemplation (directed
thinking), Meditation
While meditating we will often have the opportunity to view many of the beliefs which we hold as true, some of these beliefs are entrenched in our subconscious or emotional body. The conscious mind only interprets what is necessary for us to continue functioning on an everyday basis and not necessarily optimally, often any pain or suffering we are not consciously addressing gets stuck in the energy body. When we have stuck energy essentially what happens is we are cut off from that area of the body, the experienced result is often feelings of numbness or fogginess, or recurrent negative feelings and thoughts. The beauty of meditation is the neutrality we develop. When we are in a neutral state thoughts arise, feelings arise, and we can witness what they truly are which is resonance. As creators of our own life we can choose how we want to feel, however this demonstrates a preference which is not presence; if we prefer to feel one way or another, then this is the direction our energy goes. Once we have committed to love and light or whatever your preferred path is, we must be willing to witness the more negative and fear based aspects of who we are. One of the main tenants of Tantra and Yoga is acceptance, when we accept our negative and positive aspects as equal we allow the Universe to flow through us. When we do a Kundalini Yoga concentration exercise we will witness all sorts of states during and after, when we finish the exercise we simply have to let our breath normalize, bring our focus to the third eye point and simply witness. The third eye point is where our perceived conscious mind dwells, and its from this place we can retire the efforts of our day, of our efforts to control and prefer outcomes. If unpleasant states arise we are in a position to consciously choose what it is we want to feel. If we feel fear, or feelings of not belonging, or security issues, just conjure a thought that represent security, fearlessness because you are truly eternal, and that you are lovable and belong on Earth at this time. Let the practice go and notice the distance from the negative emotion which you have created. When we create distance we separate from the identification of "I am That". No matter what our path is eventually all techniques reach a point when they no longer serve us. The tendency we have is to search endlessly for solutions to our suffering outside of ourselves. We can choose a religion, Yoga, self help books, astrology etc... and the results are all the same no matter if the path we choose is predetermined for us or if we construct it from various sources, they all must be let go of. The mind will fixate on trying to repair what is perceived as undesirable about th personalality; this is a studio loop, another example of the dog chasing its own tail, or just spinning your wheels. The mind/ego is part of us, not who we are. The path's primary function is to increase you sense of comfort in your own skin, which makes meditation easier. In truth all that rises during meditation is simply an object, part of the whole too be accepted, and part of acceptance is that we do not have to do anything with what is experienced: do, witness, choose, let go of technique, just be
While meditating we will often have the opportunity to view many of the beliefs which we hold as true, some of these beliefs are entrenched in our subconscious or emotional body. The conscious mind only interprets what is necessary for us to continue functioning on an everyday basis and not necessarily optimally, often any pain or suffering we are not consciously addressing gets stuck in the energy body. When we have stuck energy essentially what happens is we are cut off from that area of the body, the experienced result is often feelings of numbness or fogginess, or recurrent negative feelings and thoughts. The beauty of meditation is the neutrality we develop. When we are in a neutral state thoughts arise, feelings arise, and we can witness what they truly are which is resonance. As creators of our own life we can choose how we want to feel, however this demonstrates a preference which is not presence; if we prefer to feel one way or another, then this is the direction our energy goes. Once we have committed to love and light or whatever your preferred path is, we must be willing to witness the more negative and fear based aspects of who we are. One of the main tenants of Tantra and Yoga is acceptance, when we accept our negative and positive aspects as equal we allow the Universe to flow through us. When we do a Kundalini Yoga concentration exercise we will witness all sorts of states during and after, when we finish the exercise we simply have to let our breath normalize, bring our focus to the third eye point and simply witness. The third eye point is where our perceived conscious mind dwells, and its from this place we can retire the efforts of our day, of our efforts to control and prefer outcomes. If unpleasant states arise we are in a position to consciously choose what it is we want to feel. If we feel fear, or feelings of not belonging, or security issues, just conjure a thought that represent security, fearlessness because you are truly eternal, and that you are lovable and belong on Earth at this time. Let the practice go and notice the distance from the negative emotion which you have created. When we create distance we separate from the identification of "I am That". No matter what our path is eventually all techniques reach a point when they no longer serve us. The tendency we have is to search endlessly for solutions to our suffering outside of ourselves. We can choose a religion, Yoga, self help books, astrology etc... and the results are all the same no matter if the path we choose is predetermined for us or if we construct it from various sources, they all must be let go of. The mind will fixate on trying to repair what is perceived as undesirable about th personalality; this is a studio loop, another example of the dog chasing its own tail, or just spinning your wheels. The mind/ego is part of us, not who we are. The path's primary function is to increase you sense of comfort in your own skin, which makes meditation easier. In truth all that rises during meditation is simply an object, part of the whole too be accepted, and part of acceptance is that we do not have to do anything with what is experienced: do, witness, choose, let go of technique, just be
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or check out www.somaarts1.com
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