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