| Many people feel a sense of fascination when | | | | your life. |
| confronted with the possibility of mystic | | | | |
| visions, psychic intuition and heightened | | | | This doesn't mean you need to take action in |
| mental functioning. While meditators often | | | | your outer world, for example, having an |
| report these sorts of improvements, these | | | | honest conversation with a friend or paying a |
| experiences should not be the primary reason | | | | bill. |
| for practice. The purpose of meditation is to | | | | |
| bring you back to yourself. | | | | It also means you must actively request the |
| | | | assistance of the unconscious in a clear and |
| The True Purpose of Meditation | | | | persistent way. When you do that, as you will |
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| greater self-awareness, the other benefits of | | | | toward your dreams with an irresistible |
| meditation begin to follow naturally -- | | | | impulse. |
| improved mental functioning, greater | | | | |
| intuition as well as greater access to | | | | Once you have made your request, it's |
| unconscious resources and abilities. | | | | important that you let go. Don't be concerned |
| | | | with HOW you're going to get what you truly |
| Meditation is not work in the sense that you | | | | want in your life. Needing to know how can |
| have to "force" yourself to concentrate | | | | hamper the process of making it manifest in |
| completely for long periods of time. If you | | | | the outer world. Learn to trust your |
| consciously try to prevent thinking, it's | | | | unconscious. |
| going to have a negative impact on the | | | | |
| meditation. | | | | Some changes -- perhaps all of them -- will |
| | | | happen automatically. I have personally found |
| Instead, whenever you become lost in thought | | | | that many of my destructive habits simply |
| or confusion, you simply acknowledge those | | | | dropped away with minimal conscious effort. |
| thoughts and then gently return the attention | | | | |
| to the object of the meditation. You do this | | | | For me, this was achieved not by |
| as many times as distraction or thought | | | | self-discipline and will power, but rather a |
| occurs. Eventually, the mind becomes calmer | | | | "letting go" and a realization that spiritual |
| and discursive thought begins to slow. | | | | growth is a natural process powered by parts |
| | | | of ourselves that know more than we can |
| Insight alone will not transform your life. | | | | understand consciously. |
| Meditation is likely to help you by giving | | | | |
| you larger perspectives and increasing | | | | As we let go consciously and receive more |
| clarity of thought. But although your sense | | | | input from these parts, we learn to trust |
| of inner guidance might become stronger, | | | | this feeling, this feeling that we are in |
| unless you ACT on that guidance, you will | | | | safe hands and that something amazing is |
| never manifest the changes you truly want in | | | | about to happen. |