Meditation By Swami Nithyananda
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WHY MEDITATE
The right question to start with – ‘Why meditate?’
Ask yourself, ‘Why are you reading this now?’ You could have been reading anything else now; why this? Your action itself shows that there is a deep-seated need for meditation inside you – and inside everyone of us.
* What is your ultimate aim in life?
* To earn more? * To stay young, healthy and beautiful?
* To have better, long-lasting relationships?
* The list is endless – for each individual, there will be a specific goal.
* But every single goal – without exception, every single goal – points to the same
thing: a yearning for the state of ananda or bliss.
* Can you say, ‘I am not interested in being happy, in being blissful.’?
Each of us is searching for nothing but ananda or bliss. However intellectual, however sophisticated may be the terms in which we express it, we are all seeking bliss. Only the ways we are searching for are different – through money, power, relationships etc. The word ananda itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced’. It is not happiness or pleasure. It is the state beyond both pleasure and pain, where both pleasure and pain no longer affect you.
The straight and sure route to that bliss is meditation. When you meditate, you go beyond the narrow limits of your body, of your ego. This is a difficult concept to understand. But, with sincere meditation, you can simply experience it.
Meditation relaxes the body and mind, bringing clarity of thought. This helps you see life with a new perspective, and you start living intensely and spontaneously. It is the guaranteed solution to your stress, depression, worries, fears and all your negative emotions that mask your true nature of bliss.
APPOINTMENT WITH YOU
If you feel you don’t have time to meditate, if you are too busy to make time for meditation, then you are the person who needs meditation the most!
We always give appointments to everyone else except ourselves. Taking time to meditate is making an appointment with yourself, and spending some time understanding your own deeper needs. In our hectic modern day life, we tend to spend all our time and energy in fulfilling the various roles we play in our personal and professional lives.
We work hard to create and maintain our personality, but we forget that there is an individual within us, who is beyond all these roles. Our individuality is much more than our personality. We forget that we are not just a parent or a spouse or a boss or a friend. We are something much more than our relationships.
This disconnection with our own self is the direct cause of all the stress, tension, worry, anxiety and depression we experience. Meditation is the key that unlocks this door to our self and puts us in touch with our self.
With regular meditation you will find that you can do the same things better, quicker, more efficiently, in a more relaxed way, with more creativity and enthusiasm. Meditation transforms you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Meditation is not a quantity to be added to your life, it is a quality to be added to your consciousness.
Research shows that meditators experience very low levels of stress and live a healthy and peaceful life. Meditation unleashes a natural source of intelligence in you. The side effect of it is increased productivity, improved interpersonal relationships, and much more.
WHAT MEDITATION IS NOT...
Sitting with closed eyes
Meditation is not just about closing the eyes. It is not about not doing anything. It is not about controlling your thoughts. It is really a very powerful means of creating awareness within oneself, every moment.
Awareness is neither suppression of thoughts nor fantasizing and dreaming. It is a state beyond both. The directed awareness enables one to be involved in any task with full focus and energy. You can fully enjoy anything, whether it is as simple a task as washing dishes or as complex as managing a billion-dollar company.
Concentration
Meditation is not concentration, it is awareness.
Concentration is exclusive, awareness is inclusive. When you concentrate you shut out everything else and focus your attention on one object. In awareness, nothing is shut out, everything exists as is, and you continue to keep your attention on one or more objects.
When you concentrate you are at tension, because your mind will be constantly struggling to exclude some inputs. You may be trying to shut out the sounds around you, you will be resisting the aroma of food cooking near by, you will be fighting with yourself! This is not meditation.
In meditation, you relax into awareness. You will hear the sounds around you, you will smell the food near by; you will acknowledge it but not be disturbed by it. To meditate is to be aware, to be a witness.
When you learn the art of meditating, concentration can happen effortlessly, whenever you need it to happen.
WHAT MEDITATION IS...
Meditation is just being blissful in the moment! When you are at peace in the present moment, you are already in a state of meditation. You don’t need to do anything else.
Guaranteed solution for physical and emotional problems
Meditation is the guaranteed and safe solution to handle physical, emotional and psychological problems.
There is no risk of side-effects of popping pills that play with chemical levels in the brain to combat depression or to reduce stress.
Yes, meditation directly works on physical problems also. Recent research shows that 80% of our physical problems have their roots in the mind. They are psycho-somatic problems rather than physical problems.
Meditation really relaxes, rejuvenates and re-invigorates the mind, body and spirit.
Intensely enjoying every moment
You CAN look at any situation with a freshness, uninhibited by the failures of the past yet learn in an unbiased way from the past experience.
You can enjoy every moment of life to the fullest through meditation which brings us into the awareness of the present.
The present is all that matters; not the history of the past, not the speculation of the future. What matters is simply the truth of the certainty of the present moment.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
Much scientific research had been done on meditation and its effects and benefits. Nithyananda himself has gladly participated in many research studies on the brain and the effect of meditation and healing.
To name a few of the benefits one experiences on meditating regularly and intensely:
The right question to start with – ‘Why meditate?’
Ask yourself, ‘Why are you reading this now?’ You could have been reading anything else now; why this? Your action itself shows that there is a deep-seated need for meditation inside you – and inside everyone of us.
* What is your ultimate aim in life?
* To earn more? * To stay young, healthy and beautiful?
* To have better, long-lasting relationships?
* The list is endless – for each individual, there will be a specific goal.
* But every single goal – without exception, every single goal – points to the same
thing: a yearning for the state of ananda or bliss.
* Can you say, ‘I am not interested in being happy, in being blissful.’?
Each of us is searching for nothing but ananda or bliss. However intellectual, however sophisticated may be the terms in which we express it, we are all seeking bliss. Only the ways we are searching for are different – through money, power, relationships etc. The word ananda itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced’. It is not happiness or pleasure. It is the state beyond both pleasure and pain, where both pleasure and pain no longer affect you.
The straight and sure route to that bliss is meditation. When you meditate, you go beyond the narrow limits of your body, of your ego. This is a difficult concept to understand. But, with sincere meditation, you can simply experience it.
Meditation relaxes the body and mind, bringing clarity of thought. This helps you see life with a new perspective, and you start living intensely and spontaneously. It is the guaranteed solution to your stress, depression, worries, fears and all your negative emotions that mask your true nature of bliss.
APPOINTMENT WITH YOU
If you feel you don’t have time to meditate, if you are too busy to make time for meditation, then you are the person who needs meditation the most!
We always give appointments to everyone else except ourselves. Taking time to meditate is making an appointment with yourself, and spending some time understanding your own deeper needs. In our hectic modern day life, we tend to spend all our time and energy in fulfilling the various roles we play in our personal and professional lives.
We work hard to create and maintain our personality, but we forget that there is an individual within us, who is beyond all these roles. Our individuality is much more than our personality. We forget that we are not just a parent or a spouse or a boss or a friend. We are something much more than our relationships.
This disconnection with our own self is the direct cause of all the stress, tension, worry, anxiety and depression we experience. Meditation is the key that unlocks this door to our self and puts us in touch with our self.
With regular meditation you will find that you can do the same things better, quicker, more efficiently, in a more relaxed way, with more creativity and enthusiasm. Meditation transforms you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Meditation is not a quantity to be added to your life, it is a quality to be added to your consciousness.
Research shows that meditators experience very low levels of stress and live a healthy and peaceful life. Meditation unleashes a natural source of intelligence in you. The side effect of it is increased productivity, improved interpersonal relationships, and much more.
WHAT MEDITATION IS NOT...
Sitting with closed eyes
Meditation is not just about closing the eyes. It is not about not doing anything. It is not about controlling your thoughts. It is really a very powerful means of creating awareness within oneself, every moment.
Awareness is neither suppression of thoughts nor fantasizing and dreaming. It is a state beyond both. The directed awareness enables one to be involved in any task with full focus and energy. You can fully enjoy anything, whether it is as simple a task as washing dishes or as complex as managing a billion-dollar company.
Concentration
Meditation is not concentration, it is awareness.
Concentration is exclusive, awareness is inclusive. When you concentrate you shut out everything else and focus your attention on one object. In awareness, nothing is shut out, everything exists as is, and you continue to keep your attention on one or more objects.
When you concentrate you are at tension, because your mind will be constantly struggling to exclude some inputs. You may be trying to shut out the sounds around you, you will be resisting the aroma of food cooking near by, you will be fighting with yourself! This is not meditation.
In meditation, you relax into awareness. You will hear the sounds around you, you will smell the food near by; you will acknowledge it but not be disturbed by it. To meditate is to be aware, to be a witness.
When you learn the art of meditating, concentration can happen effortlessly, whenever you need it to happen.
WHAT MEDITATION IS...
Meditation is just being blissful in the moment! When you are at peace in the present moment, you are already in a state of meditation. You don’t need to do anything else.
Guaranteed solution for physical and emotional problems
Meditation is the guaranteed and safe solution to handle physical, emotional and psychological problems.
There is no risk of side-effects of popping pills that play with chemical levels in the brain to combat depression or to reduce stress.
Yes, meditation directly works on physical problems also. Recent research shows that 80% of our physical problems have their roots in the mind. They are psycho-somatic problems rather than physical problems.
Meditation really relaxes, rejuvenates and re-invigorates the mind, body and spirit.
Intensely enjoying every moment
You CAN look at any situation with a freshness, uninhibited by the failures of the past yet learn in an unbiased way from the past experience.
You can enjoy every moment of life to the fullest through meditation which brings us into the awareness of the present.
The present is all that matters; not the history of the past, not the speculation of the future. What matters is simply the truth of the certainty of the present moment.
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
Much scientific research had been done on meditation and its effects and benefits. Nithyananda himself has gladly participated in many research studies on the brain and the effect of meditation and healing.
To name a few of the benefits one experiences on meditating regularly and intensely:
- Improved physical health, mental wellness and emotional wellbeing
- Guaranteed Solutions for fear, worry, depression, anxiety, jealousy and dissatisfaction
- More fulfilling interpersonal relationships at home and work
- Improved productivity and performance at work
- Enhanced creativity, clarity of perception
- More energetic and enthusiastic
- Reduced stress levels
- Inner relaxation
- Self-confidence
- Self-motivation leading to motivating others automatically
- Increased concentration and greater responsibility with ease
- Centering in oneself and solid inner balance
- Increased Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Spiritual Quotient (SQ)
- Increased spontaneity
- Actualizing one’s potential
- Enjoying every moment of life
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