Q: What is the point of meditation? What do you achieve by closing our eyes and sitting for 30 minutes?
Unfortunately, that is how meditation or yoga is perceived now a days - close your eyes; sit silently for 30 minutes. The first thing that comes to your mind when someone talks about meditation is someone sitting like that.
But that only is not meditation. Try this now. Just close your eyes and open it after a few seconds... What did you notice? Are you really closed? Are you really shut down?
You might think, what kind of questions are these. Well, that is what meditation is supposed to do. Okay, lets see how many of these thoughts came to you when you closed your eyes -
(1) Thoughts about office
(2) Thoughts about home
(3) Thoughts about kids
(4) Thoughts about work tomorrow
(5) Thoughts about what happened yesterday
...
You will see that even when you close your eyes, most of these thoughts still keep popping up inside you. There is an internal TV that continuously runs inside even with our eyes closed. We are jumping from one place to other, one point to the other, one timeline to the other.
The point is we are so busy with our thoughts that we never are really within ourselves.
Now, answer this - how many times in a day are you consciously in your boundary, i.e. how many times is your mind really with your body?
The answer is mostly a NIL or hardly few seconds. This is means out of 86400 seconds in a day, we are a complete unit only for a few seconds. By complete unit, I mean the mind and body are together.
This is precisely what meditation helps you to do. Meditation does not mean sitting silently and closing your eyes. It means being totally aware of your self, your thoughts, your inner space. It is a means to make yourself a complete unit. It helps to give an appointment for yourself for atleast those 30 minutes.
Also, meditation need not be silently sitting and watching your thoughts. There are various dynamic meditations. If you attend the Life Bliss Programs, you will see some interesting meditation techniques and some of them are really fun to do :)
Heres the link to meditation programs. Meanwhile enjoy this funfilled video by Nithyananda on being within boundaries.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Meditation - Give an appointment to your self
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3 comments:
My luck that I visited this site! I will surely do this meditation course. I need it badly :|
I think meditations make one dull. I have seen my colleague going to meditation camps. Now he has no time to join us for a party. What life is this if one cant enjoy?
Nithyanandam Steve.
Why not think this way, "May be your colleague has got a better means to enjoy himself than attending parties?"
Unless one tastes a mango, one can't understand how much good it tastes.
We hope you can make yourself available to a 2-day LBP meditation workshop closest to your area. For more details, go to this site.
Please note that we aren't saying, by meditating you would stop partying. One thing is certain though -- You won't be dull. Actually, you will be more aware and lively.
We wish you bliss...
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