How to Meditate? The guidelines, objectives and benefits of the practice of silent meditation
The word meditation is derived from the root meditatum Latin, meaning to think, pay attention, and mederi – to heal, become whole.
In all spiritual traditions, meditation is one of the main practices to connect with God, Spirit, Unity.
The habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge.
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The Old Testament says: Be still and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10).
The question arises: How to remain in the busy world? How to meditate?
There are hundreds of practices of meditation and
The most common is the practice of silent meditation.
Silent meditation retreat offers the opportunity to delve into the interior, where You can find a refuge from disturbance outside world. meditation retreat is also an effective way to assist in the establishment of their daily practice at home committed.
Here are some guidelines silent meditation
Begin meditation with form, as described in Vipassana , a Buddhist tradition, inviting you to observe all the objects that arise in consciousness, using all senses and only witnesses of what is showing.
This practice may facilitate the understanding of its true nature.
Breathing carefully
Sit upright with no effort. If you feel real pain or discomfort during a session, change its position, but only when are sure that you need.
Start by putting all your attention on your breathing.
Be aware of each inhalation and exhalation each one. Breathe deeply and effortlessly fill your belly, which rise when you inhale and fall when exhaling.
Notice to all feeling the breath passes through the nostrils, throat and belly.
At first you can count your breaths to increase its focus
And to stop the mind thinking.
Witness
Gradually expand their consciousness and at all times pay attention to breathing, all the sensations in the body, emotions and thoughts.
Be aware of all the objects in the environment: sounds, energy, people.
Please note that your sense of increased space. At all times aware of more objects and shapes. With each breath that are broader, more open to receiving and witnesses.
The thing thought or emotion on the screen of your mind or your heart, just stay in the testimony, without getting involved or identified.
silent meditation may open old wounds that have not fully faced and instead created all to avoid distractions.
Witness all ways in which you want to escape and stay still. Knows everything that is manifested by the full presence.
If you do not have much of an experience of meditation, you can find
Busy activities of the mind and restlessness in the body, which wants to keep the mind and keep moving.
Let that
No Do not try to stop the force of mind or anything. Surrender all effort, all the control. Silent meditation is an opportunity for everything the face and testimony that arise without trying to change anything.
You may notice a common tendency to get distracted and walk away in the future or the past. . Only the witnesses of the mind based on fear of trying to create a perceived sense of security in the future fictional or housing in the past does not exist and mourning blame, judge.
Let everything be exactly as it is and as shown on the screen of consciousness. It only remains to observe undone.
When you catch yourself being totally lost in the process of thought,
By the time you see it, go back to the breath awareness. Nothing is lost forever There is only this moment, which invited back, to be present again.
Abide
Paying attention to differences between thoughts and the gaps between breaths.
Stay in a vacuum, staying in a thoughtless awareness and a felt sense of it, it lasts only a second.
Ask
After some time, during his retirement silent meditation or in his own home, you may notice a change.
Focus on all objects in the consciousness of their attention may begin to change the subject of meditation, with a question: who is aware of all shapes and objects, which is present all what is involved?
Who is it?
This is a major issue of spiritual inquiry:
Who am I? What is it that breathes through Me? What is aware?
Is that the mind, which tries to capture, understand that they control?
Am I the mind?
Not as a meditator
Watching himself in meditation is learned the mind is made up of repetitive thoughts and above all come and go.
Trying to find in the thought, can not afford to fail.
It is a failure the thinker, the driver, based on ego identity. In the process of meditation, the meditator is lost, leaving only meditation.
Discover your true nature
You can see that what is conscious of not having a shape, is fixed, immutable, that is beyond thought, so it is timeless, eternal. The identity of the separate ego begins to dissolve into the formless consciousness.
You will discover a true. You are conscious of being conscious.
Through you, the consciousness becomes aware of itself.
The sense of unity, inner peace and freedom is restored.
You come back home to yourself, where you become whole and healed again, trusting and loving what is, to feel gratitude and appreciation for all gifts of life.
This is a true purpose of silent meditation.
"Meditation is the end of thought. It is only then that is a different dimension which is beyond time.
Meditation is one of the great arts life – perhaps the largest, and one can not learn from anyone, that is the beauty of it. He has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, have carefully, to see the way you walk, how to eat, what you say, gossip, hatred, jealousy – if you are aware of all that in itself, without any of choice, which is part of meditation. Meditation is a consciousness without choice in the present. "Jiddu Krishnamurti
About the Author
Andrzej Skwira is a Spiritual Life Coach, Meditation teacher, Clarity Breathwork Practitioner/Trainer and Aquatic Bodyworker with extensive training and certifications in Watsu, Waterdance, Healing Dance as well as Esalen, Thai, Swedish, Tantsu, Self-healing and Movement Education. In his twenties, Andrzej had a near death experience that was his first spritual awakening. Since then Andrzej has been travelling extensively, has lived in India and Africa, and has spent a lot of time in meditation, silent retreats and embraced various spiritual practices. His main passion is learning to live an awakened life and to share it with others. He enjoys in-depth study and practice of self-inquiry and meditation as a path of liberation. Andrzej lives now at Spirit Springs Mountain Retreat (www.spiritspringsretreat.com) where he leads spiritual retreats. You can find out more about Andrzej, his breathwork and aquatic bodywork practice at: www.fluidbreath.com
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