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Meditation

Written by: Randy Ek

Article Overview: Spiritual listening

Meditation

Meditation
Spiritual Listening

AAAHHHLLLLMMMMMMMM! This is the way I remember my first introduction to meditation, some twenty-five years ago. It was a unique and mysterious Eastern experience at the time. I was drawn to the activity as it seemed to produce an atmosphere of calmness in the practitioner and calmness had never been a part of my life. I don’t ever remember having less than a few hundred voices in my head at any one time. That chaotic roar in my head had been there as long as I could remember. I believe that it is this mental clamor that institutes most suicides as I had thoughts of suicide often prior to my introduction to meditation. I knew I could be successful but not with the insanity I felt I possessed.
I began studying a few meditation books, which were all written in the Eastern mystique. I practiced sitting the right way, at just the right azimuth, chanting the proper monody, followed by hours of waiting. But the calmness I thought I would receive never came. My self-esteem was so low at the time I knew that it had to be my fault, so I continued to try and try exactly what the books told me to do, to no avail. The harder I tried, the farther I got, and it seemed that the turmoil in my head was actually getting worse.
Although I had many similar experiences the books spoke of, what I concluded as the absence of thought never occurred. I thought I would never achieve the calmness I sought. The idea came to me to go to India and ascend a mountain to seek counsel from a cave dwelling Yogi. I remember it worked for Dr. Timothy Leary back in the sixties and then I remembered I no longer consume mood altering chemicals. About the time I was ready to quit I had a spiritual experience. I intuitively knew that I and the Universe were one and it is impossible to delineate oneness. I knew that I was primarily spirit and filled with infinite perfection. All I needed was to trust the grace of the Universe. At that moment I became calm. The thoughts didn’t go away, I just became peaceful.
Meditation isn't finding one's mantra, but it could be. You can't just chant your way to God, although some do. Meditation isn't just some magical, mystical avenue toward spiritual enlightenment, yet it is for some. For me meditation is merely listening for intuition, direction and purpose. Many of you may ask, “Listening to/for what?”
In the realm of thought, as is true in the full vastness of the universe, nothing is random and thoughts are constant frequency available always merely by listening. The universe is pure intelligence and everything in it follows similar cosmic DNA in a sense of purpose. If all the laws in the universe were to be concentrated into one law, it would be Cause & Effect. Everything we call reality began as thought. What we think, we believe; what we believe, we conceive; what we conceive becomes our new reality. Turning our dreams into goals and plans into clear cut direction toward our goals is cause and success is effect.
With all that said, meditation is a way to listen to our inner thoughts or voice. Society knows this inner voice as many things: Conscience, Intuition, Wisdom, etc. The difficulty is that we are consumed by millions of thoughts. So which voices are we to focus on? I have found the answer to be quite clear. The louder, more deafening thoughts are the outcries of Ego, trying to drown out the patient, softer, quieter voice of Soul or Truth. Soul is connected to Universal Intelligence and considers all Effect in a universal connotation, while Ego is selfish and self-centered. What is good for us must be good for all for it to truly be good.
By taking the time to sit quietly and listen to the chatter, eventually the soft whisper of wisdom and intuition can be isolated as with wheat from its chaff. With a little practice and solid results, you will find sitting in long periods of silence to be less necessary as meditation will become a working part of your psyche. You will be more and more aware of demanding thought, which comes from Ego and able to stay focused on intuitive thought, which comes from Soul.
Prayer is thought and all thoughts are prayer. Mediation is a discipline necessary in separating and isolating our thoughts. Whenever we pray it is a law of the Universe to deliver our thoughts as our reality. If we are praying with negative thoughts we will manifest negative in our lives. Equally true; positive thought or prayer must also be equally blessed. Meditation is necessary in keeping negative thought purged from our subconscious which becomes a thief in the night to our maximum potential.
Clarify your thoughts. Concentrate on inspirational thinking which lies deeply, near the silence. Chaotic thought creates Chaos. Clarity of thought creates Clarity fulfilling specific requests. The choice, and therefore the responsibility is yours and remember…
Your life is PERFECT!
PAY ATTENTION!!!
Love,
Randy

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