meditation is a way of “de-programming” yourself of negative influences and replacing them with more positive, productive states of mind? I cannot understand how simple focus on one’s breathing can have these results.
How does meditation do this?
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meditation isn’t just about breathing techniques- it’s also about being in a relaxed, yet postitive state of mind. please check out this website, to inform yourself of what meditation really is, and sincerely try it, you might actually enjoy it.
http://www.how-to-meditate.org/
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Here’s another view on meditation:
http://www.sahajayoga.org.in/SYIntro.asp
where you actually harness your inner energy to do those positive changes you are talking about. It’s an imense potential very few people know about and use.
To give it a try, you can start with this experience:
http://www.sahajayoga.org/experienceitnow/default.asp
then browse around the 2 websites to find out more.
my own very long experience with this method
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It is actually more than that. You know how we let our mind wander thinking illogical, chaotic, negative and fearful thoughts? The mind is a powerful tool that creates our reality and yet we do not take control it, rather we let it run rampant like a loose child.
You have to take control of the mind’s thoughts like a dog on a leash. When it is ready to bark, you yank on the leash to keep it from barking. The same concept applies to the mind. You have to keep the negative thinking at bay.
How meditation comes into this is paying attention to the mind. You want to keep it empty. Many use a mantra in the beginning because when we chant a mantra mentally, we are replacing the mind’s own thoughts with the mantra that it is too busy to think anything else but focus on the mantra. The mantras have power to drawn energies.
I also focus on my guru Mata Amritanandamayi whom is an incarnation of the Divine Mother. She says one should focus on their diety or a form of God during meditation to keep the mind focused on God.
So as a result of a combination changing one’s negative thinking to more postive loving thoughts, japa (repitiion of mantras) and meditation changes the state of mind by wiping it clean of impurities and filling it with more love and light from God.
Breath also has a contribution as well if you breathe in the proper way that creates a very relaxed state or a blissful state.
my own very long experience with this method
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Meditation is not about breathing or about positive or negative thoughts. It is about achieving a state of ‘NO THOUGHTS’, for that is when you experience bliss. You realize an amazing truth that you are naturally blissful like a contented baby. Normally this blissfulness is buried under thoughts – negative as well as positive. During meditation you simply ‘leave’ whatever thoughts come to you and turn your attention to your breathing or, for that matter, any other meaningless object i.e. a mantra. Doing so helps you stay thoughtless for longer times, thereby experiencing longer moments of bliss.
my own very long experience with this method
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