by Lawrence Wilson, MD
© March 2013, The Center for
Development
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Meditation is a very commonly-used word. It generally refers to some type of
prayer, or a method of calming or stilling the mind. The word sometimes has a religious connotation, but not
necessarily. However, in this article
and in all articles on this website, the word meditation refers only to one particular mental exercise. This is very important to
understand. It is a wonderful and
powerful way to train the mind, relax the mind, and move a powerful healing
energy downward through the body.
The Roy Masters meditation method is a central part of nutritional
balancing science as I now teach it.
Dr. Eck did not include it in his original nutritional balancing
programs. However, he was very
aware of Mr. Masters and had great respect for his work. I include it because I saw very early
on how it fit in perfectly with the principles and application of nutritional
balancing science. It is simple,
safe, harmless and very powerful when done properly. All other meditations are not recommended.
THIS MEDITATION USED
BY THE US MILITARY
Here is a recent article that describes how this
particular meditation is helping our troops, among many others.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/
HOW TO DO THE OBSERVATION-CONCENTRATION
EXERCISE
I will describe this in writing. However, most people find it far easier to learn it while
listening to a description of how to do it. An audio version is available at no charge on this website
by clicking on the links at the beginning of this article. You may download the exercise from
these links.
However, if you prefer to buy the newer version of the
exercise on a compact disc, click
here for the meditation CD.
The Basic Procedure: Sit in a straight-backed chair, with your arms hanging
loosely at your side. A variation
is to lie down and place your hands at your sides. Close your eyes.
Become aware of your right hand. Just notice it. Do not concentrate on it or visualize
it, exactly. Just be aware of it
and notice it. Do not force anything to happen.
It is often easier to be aware of one finger at a time
rather than the whole hand at once.
Move your awareness from finger to finger, but do not move your awareness
to the rest of your body. Keep
your awareness on your hand. It
should start to tingle a little bit.
At the same time, look through the middle of your
forehead, as though you were sitting inside your head and looking out. It should feel like you are sitting
inside a cave with nothing much to look at, so you just look straight
ahead. Do not roll your eyes up in your
head or do anything else.
Just look out of your head through the middle of your forehead.
Modifying the Roy Masters
exercise. For a
more powerful effect, do the following:
Move energy downward through the head and the body, into the right
hand. When this feels comfortable,
move the energy downward forcefully from the top of the head all the way down
into the toes. Do this
continuously and very forcefully.
Never, ever move the energy sideways, and the worst thing
to do is to move it upwards. Never
move energy in any direction except straight downwards for maximum effect and
safety.
Relax the body. In order to do this, one must relax the body a lot, more and
more, so that more energy will move through it. Also, one must relax the muscles a lot so that the energy
will flow. Also, the back must be straight. You may lie down, sit or even stand up
(not recommended), but the spine must be straight in order for the energy to
move easily through the body.
Also, the legs must be either bent at the knee as in a
sitting position, or straight down, as when lying down or standing up walking,
for example.
Allow and assist energy to flow into the top of the head
and down the body to the right hand.
Encourage this energy to flow by drawing it down into the body. Slowly this flow and the tingling of
the right hand will increase.
Eventually, you will allow and move the energy down from the head into
both hands and then into the feet as well. Both hands and both feet will tingle a little bit letting
you know that you are doing it right.
To enhance the exercise, empty the body and mind and imagine the energy flowing into the
void or emptiness of the body. You
can imagine a giant vacuum cleaner or force pulling the energy down from the
top of the head and into the right hand and down to the feet. You can also imagine standing under a
giant shower or waterfall with the energy cascading down into the body and down
the front of the body. You can
also visualize lying down in a river, with the water flowing forcefully from
your head to your feet, while your feet are braced against a rock so that you
are not swept away by the current.
These visualizations can definitely help a process that is
real, namely bringing a certain energy down from the head to the feet as
forcefully as you can.
Advanced ideas. Ways that an help move more
energy through the body include:
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Imagine pushing the body down,
mentally. This is like closing an accordion or
squeezing a sponge downward. I am
not sure why this works, but it seems to move more energy through much
better. In your mind, (not
physically), fold the body down like an accordion, and place your head under
your feet with the body squeezed into a small space like a closed accordion.
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Move
the attention from one finger to another. This was mentioned earlier.
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Think of the exercise as being
like magnetizing a metal rod by continually stroking it in one direction only -
downward. This literally magnetizes the cells,
very much like stroking a piece of iron with a magnet to magnetize a metal bar.
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Think of inducing a current in a
wire (the body)
by moving energy in a downward direction only through the body. Like a transformer, this will induce a
flow of energy inside the body in the same direction.
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You can either push the energy
downward, or pull or draw the energy down the front of the body. Pulling or drawing the energy
down is usually a little better, like drawing Heaven down to earth. Any visualization that you can think of
to help with this may move more energy down the body.
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Try moving the energy not just
down to the feet, but somewhat beyond or below the feet. This also appears to help.
A SAFE EXERCISE
Safety should and must be a primary concern when one
considers any mental or health practice.
This is because many meditations are not safe and must be avoided for
safety reasons. In my experience,
the Roy Masters exercise is very safe for the following reasons:
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It is easy to learn at home. It does not require any special training, initiation, paying
fees, or trained teachers or a group to help you with it. This is a safety feature, since
teachers and groups can corrupt meditations, especially.
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You
can do it as often and for as long each session as you wish. This cannot be said of many other
meditations. For example, please
avoid any prayers or meditations that send your energy upward, as they may
produce marvelous effects on the mind, but may not be safe in the long term.
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It will not lead you astray. Some types of prayers, such as affirmations, can easily lead
people in directions that are not healthy. For example, some affirmations cause people to believe in things
that are not really true, such as ÒI am happier and healthier every day.Ó This statement might be true, but often
it is not and is just an attempt to brainwash yourself.
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It does not cause visions,
hallucinations or other psychic phenomena.
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It is grounding and centering,
which tends to be far safer than most others.
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It does not cause strain to the
body or to the mind. For example, many prayers and meditation
teachers suggest one assume uncomfortable postures that are not needed, in our
view, and can even damage the body over time. This particularly applies to Oriental systems such as yoga
and tai chi, unfortunately. These
can be good, but one must have a teacher who continuously checks to be sure
there is no strain on the ligaments and joints of the body.
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It is not hypnotic. In fact, Mr. Masters calls it the anti-hypnosis, as it will
break many light hypnotic trances easily.
Mr. Masters was a hypnotist before he taught meditation and states that
this exercise can help break the effect of hypnotic speech, images, etc.
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No dogma or doctrines are needed. In other words, there is no need or attempt to inculcate
certain doctrines in order for this exercise to work. It is a pure exercise in this regard. Dogma may help some people, but it is
not needed and this is another safety feature since one is not forced to learn
any particular information. The
exercise is mainly about removing images, thoughts, and emotions that are
revealed to be untrue as one progresses with the exercise. This is very different from
affirmations that seek to influence the brain in ways that are sometimes not
healthy, though the affirmations may seem benign.
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It does not develop Òpsychic
abilitiesÓ. Some may see this as a
disadvantage. However, in our
experience, most people are better off without these abilities until they are
sufficiently balanced to handle them properly.
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A slow, steady and safe way to
open the energy centers of the body and heal the body. This is a great key and benefit of this exercise that cannot
be said of most prayers and meditations, sadly. The reason is the exercise is non-specific. That is, it does not target any
particular thought, body organ or area, or anything else. It might be called instead an exercise
in pure energy awareness of the whole person.
OTHER TOPICS RELATED
TO THIS MENTAL EXERCISE
WHAT THE EXERCISE
DOES
Two primary actions take place. The first is that it helps to relax, calm and gain control
over mind.
This is always the first step with most mental exercises
such as prayer, affirmations, and meditations. You may see that your mind is not really in your control and
it wanders, races, gets distracted and sometimes roams sort of like a wild
animal.
Repeatedly doing the exercise thousands of times slowly
bring the mind under your control, somewhat like training an unruly animal or
badly behaved child.
Second aspect is more special. This exercise only is able to bring into the body and mind a
special energy that is healing and that actually transforms the body and mind
in unusual ways. This is
different from other exercises, although I believe that it is the intent of
most prayer, as well.
This energy is itself unseen for the most part, but is in
fact the basic ÔstuffÕ or ÔetherÕ out of which all created matter is
built. In other cultures and
traditions, it is known as prana, chi, qi, vital force, life energy or perhaps zero-point energy.
The more of this energy that we take in and pass through
our bodies, the better we feel.
Also, by absorbing more of it, one may be able to develop certain brain
centers that otherwise remain dormant in most people. This, in turn, can cause a person to develop new abilities
and talents, such as enhanced perception, and others.
Personal experience. I have used this method for some 30 years on a daily
basis. It continues to help me
heal the physical body and it continues to develop my mind in ways I would not
have imagined. This is the reason
I continue to recommend it.
Other meditations and mental
exercises. Other meditations are NOT recommended,
including transcendental meditation, Vipassana, Zen,
and most others. Some of these
others are fine for certain purposes, but they do not accomplish the same thing
as the Roy Masters exercise, especially with the modifications I suggest.
Is it religious? Mr. Masters is a Christian. However, the mental exercise he teaches is completely
non-denominational. It also
requires no religious training or affiliation, although familiarity with
certain biblical concepts is helpful to understand it.
For example, the LordÕs Prayer states that Thy will be
done on earth, as it is already done in Heaven. This exercise, and this is the only one that I know of, is
putting this prayer in action as you bring the energy of Heaven straight down
from your head down into you feet.
You are literally bringing Heaven to earth.
Mr. Masters says he learned it spontaneously as a child
and just found it gave him a special kind of peace and perspective, so he just
kept doing it. His religious
beliefs came later when, though the insights he gained due, in part, to practicing
the exercise each day, he realized the importance of the bible and its truths.
For more of Mr. Masters ideas, I suggest his small book entitled How
Your Mind Will Keep You Well.
This is his basic book about the meditation exercise. The others deal with specific issues
such as parents, sexuality, food, medicine and other topics.
Reading is not the answer. Mr. Masters states clearly that reading will never solve
your problems, so do not waste a lot of time reading books. Instead, learn to meditate every day
and most problems will slowly disappear from your life. I agree with this, for the most
part, and so I do not recommend reading a lot of books about meditation for
this reason. However, Mr. MastersÕ
basic book, How Your Mind Can Keep You
Well is helpful to get started, for a basic understanding of the procedure,
and why it is different than all the others I have encountered.
EMPTYING THE MIND
The
means of bringing in the new energy is most important. It is to empty the mind or self of as
much of this world as possible for the short period of meditation. This is critical to understand. Roy Masters does not emphasize this
enough, but it is at the very core or essence of this exercise if one is to
succeed with it.
The
concept is discussed in the bible, for example, in the phrase, Ònot my will,
but Thine be doneÓ. This is the concept of emptying the self of all that one
thinks is important and instead opening the self, the mind, and the body,
including the joints of the body in particular, to something new, something
different, something beyond this physical world.
A NEW SOURCE OF ENERGY
The modified Roy Masters exercise can permit one to
connect with a new source of personal and healing energy. This may seem like a strange idea. However, it is no doubt true, and one
can feel it, first as a slight tingling and later throughout the body.
This energy may be called God or Jesus or life energy, or
whatever you prefer to call it.
Whatever it is, it is some type of primordial energy of life that
promotes health, happiness and long life.
It is also associated with certain human abilities that are not
available when one is connected only to the physical and environmental sources
of energy or physical reality.
This is a key to understanding this meditation exercise and, to some
degree, all prayer and meditation practices.
THE GOAL OF THIS
PRACTICE
The goal of meditation is to activate your full
potential. This is more than just
calming the mind, or increasing oneÕs awareness, although these are among its
benefits. It is a long, slow road,
so it is best to begin now.
MORE SPECIFIC
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
PHYSICAL HEALING
The effects of the new source of energy are many, and they
occur on all levels of our being.
For example, physical healing occurs because the subtle energy, as it
enters the body through the head, automatically flows everywhere in the body
and helps to deconstrict
and decongest areas of the brain and body.
Many other subtle changes occur in the glands and other
organs of the physical body. For
example, the practice of sitting quietly and meditating as suggested inhibits the sympathetic nervous system. This is the fight-or-flight nervous
system. Resting this system
powerfully rests the adrenal and thyroid
glands and assists the activity of
the immune, digestive and elimination systems of the body.
Many other benefits flow from this one benefit to the
nervous system. Breathing tends to automatically slow and
deepen, bringing more oxygen to the body cells. As breathing changes, the body becomes better oxygenated. More oxygen in the body greatly assists
the proper nutrition and metabolism in the body. This often brings healing all by itself and is the reason
oxygen therapies are highly recommended for certain ailments.
Causing healing reactions. As the physical body shifts due to the effects of the
meditation, you can expect some unusual or just annoying healing symptoms, at
times. This is nothing to be concerned
about and they will pass. Perhaps
skip the meditation for a day if you feel your body needs to Òcatch upÓ or move
through something one day.
On the other hand, at times, meditating more will move the
reaction through faster. Some
experimentation will be needed to learn how to best handle these
situations. I may be able to
assist you if difficulties of this type continue to arise. For example, you may be overlooking a
procedure or aspect of your life that needs more attention.
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
HEALING
So much change occurs on mental and emotional levels that a
large section of this article will discuss just a few of the major ones.
Mental healing occurs for several reasons. Meditation
is like a once or a twice-a-day mental checkup. Often you will find that you automatically review your day
and plan for tomarrow without having to think about
it.
Incomplete thought processes will
be completed as
the mind stops racing out of control.
Most people do not realize that they are so busy with their momentary
activities that they do not complete their thoughts, and many projects at home
or at work. So during meditation, you will realize what
you need to do and many thought processes will complete on their own. This
not only relaxes the mind and the emotions in many cases. Often this also brings with it
surprising insights and creative ideas for you.
Old mental and emotional traumas
come up for viewing and are resolved in the light. This reduces stress dramatically. This is a very necessary process for many peopleÕs physical
and even more so their emotional and mental healing. It is not always pleasant, but if one will just observe
whatever comes up with equanimity and an observing attitude, not judging
whatever it is, then it will pass eventually. That is all that is needed in most cases. Rarely, it is wise to talk about your
insights with a counselor or a good friend, but usually this is not necessary,
nor is it always helpful since all that is usually needed is to let it go and
move on. Talking for hours about it is not usually helpful at all.
Meditation also brings and keeps
one in the present moment. This is where all wisdom
and healing lie. Fear and anxiety
are in the future, while guilt and remorse are in the past. You will begin to understand this much
better as you meditate daily. This
exercise is superb for keeping a person in the present time, something that
most people have difficulty doing well and consistently.
The exercise is extremely
grounding and centering. This is not true of most
meditations, by the way.
Grounding, which is the subject of an article on this website, is most
important for healing for many people today. Especially as our world is changing rapidly, grounding and
centering are extremely important for all healing processes.
Deprogramming, rather than
reprogramming. The exercise deprograms the mind and
even the body in many ways by upsetting and breaking up old tensions. That is, it slowly undoes your past
traumas and issues.
In
contrast, affirmations, most visualization and concentration exercises only
reprogram the mind. This is a
vital difference between this meditation and almost all others that I have
seen.
Whitewashing Vs. Removal. This subject could fill an entire
book. It means that other methods
will tend to whitewash over your problems, fears, angers and the rest of the
unwanted thoughts and emotions.
Instead, the meditation I recommend here will often do the opposite.
It
will bring them up for review. If
you are able to just observe them without too much reaction, they will then be
released and you will be free from the original cause of the attitude, emotion
or thought.
This
process of deprogramming takes a few years, but is well worth the effort. Each level of traumas and hidden
emotions and thoughts that you progress through clears more negative thought
patterns and little by little you will be free and will function much better in
every way.
Deprogramming and Healing. Freeing negative energetic patterns
also greatly opens the body for every kind of healing.
THIS MEDITATION IS:
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A
Habit That Allows You to End Your Attachment To Mindless Habits.
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A
Discipline That Helps Remove The Need For So Much Discipline.
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A
Use Of Your Lower Will That Helps End The Reign Of Your Lower Will.
This meditation is a form of
psychotherapy. It gently brings up hidden thoughts and
attitudes so they can be examined objectively. It is a self-therapy
that proceeds at your own pace and brings up issues in exactly the correct
order. By cultivating the
ÔwitnessÕ in oneself, it shines the light of truth on every activity, relationship
and event in oneÕs life. This has
a powerful healing effect if one is willing to make needed changes that are
best for oneself and best for others as well. While psychotherapy can be beneficial, problems with all
psychotherapy are that one must interact with a therapist who is usually not
completely clear about all of his or her own issues, so things become confused
and distorted in all instances that I have observed. In other words, just interacting with another, while often
helpful, also introduces other input and theories and so on that may not be
relevant and often send the client off in random directions, many of which
today are not helpful.
Negative and random, distracting
thoughts suddenly are found to have less power. This is a mental effect that is quite startling to
people. It has to do with
observing oneÕs thoughts and the idea of bringing up and releasing old
traumas. As this is done, the negative
thoughts and feelings associated with the traumas stop coming into your mind.
You may find that oddly, you no longer feel sorry for
yourself, for example, or you will strangely find you are less angry or upset
with your family, perhaps.
Automatically reducing this negative thinking is an incredible benefit
for many people who have tried affirmations, prayer, other meditations and many
methods to accomplish this goal.
This meditation is an
anti-hypnosis. Roy Masters is a hypnotist by
profession. He realized people did
not need hypnosis to cure their problems.
In fact, most are already hypnotized! Most people live in a light trance state that he calls Òthe
hypnosis of lifeÓ. For example,
television advertising, he says is just a way of giving many people a
post-hypnotic suggestion to buy a certain car or brand of shampoo. Advertising may work because the
population is already in somewhat of a trance state and are easily influenced
by these silly ads. Advertising
has other more spiritual aspects, however, which is to raise awareness and alert
people to new products and services.
However, many ads are aimed at unconscious and often hypnotic
suggestions to lure people unconsciously.
This is what might be called the dark side of advertising.
Meditation,
by increasing awareness, very slowly assists one out of the hypnotic or very
light trance state they are in and helps them come back to reality.
This meditation will help develop
healthier attitudes. Emotionally, one slowly becomes more
centered and balanced in oneÕs attitudes and approaches to life. One
becomes more centered in oneself, which is not the same as becoming
self-centered. The difference
between these two states is enormous.
Centered in oneself means that
one has a place of balance and peace within. This allows one to be much less self-centered, which means preoccupied with the ego self or
selfishness.
These
physical, mental and emotional effects combine to reshape the entire person,
top to bottom, into a more loving, more unselfish, more enlightened being. This is the beauty of this meditation.
HABIT CHANGE
With this meditation, bad habits
will tend to drop you. Interestingly, you will
no longer be compatible with them.
Many such habits simply stem from unawareness. As your awareness grows, you will see the roots of your
habits. This meditation allows you
to understand yourself without becoming morbid or negatively
self-conscious.
You will see the process of your thinking and why you
smoke, drink alcohol or engage in other habits or activities that deplete
you. As you begin to take
more of your cues from the higher self or real self, you will be less often
triggered by people or events.
Common sense and a spiritual sense take over. Change then becomes much easier. Life becomes simpler and happier without exerting any
special effort, except to keep meditating even if you think you have ÒarrivedÓ
or become ÒenlightenedÓ.
THE WITNESS
The exercise offers a simple way
to retrain the mind to watch itself without judgment or condemnation. It is not, in itself, a way to solve
problems, but a way to increase awareness.
By increasing awareness, one understands
oneself and others better. This
understanding brings solutions for problems without struggle or effort. The only effort required is to practice
the exercise regularly.
This is a unique way to solve problems. I first read about the idea years ago
in the books written by J. Krishnamurti. I highly recommend reading one of his
books. However, while he
recommends meditation as the solution to all problems, he does not offer a
specific exercise, so the results did not come. I believe he practiced this same exercise but either did not
wish to share the details or perhaps did not realize the need to share them
clearly. As a result, his books
are wonderful to read, but will not produce the same results as doing the
recommended exercise in this article.
USEFUL ANALOGIES FOR
THIS MEDITATION
This meditation is:
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Taming the wild beast of the mind. At times, the exercise can feel like ÔbreakingÕ a wild horse
or trying to tame another wild beast.
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Coming home. It is like deciding to stay home, so to speak, and spend
time with your real self instead of just running out all the time with various
distractions and activities. This
meditation is a way of being with oneself in a relaxed way, of viewing problems
without running from them or having to react in any way.
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Turning down the volume of a
blaring radio, so you can hear the more subtle music within.
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Going to the movies every day. However, the subject of the movie is yourself. This may seem boring, morbid or self-centered
but it is really none of these.
You are a child of god and to explore and see yourself in this way is a
wonderful exercise that helps you to appreciate yourself and then to appreciate
others at deeper levels as well.
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Magnetizing a piece of iron. This particular exercise is like
stroking a piece of iron with a magnet to magnetize the piece of iron. One simply strokes the iron over and
over again in the exact same direction and way, and sooner or later the iron
becomes magnetized properly. It may take thousands of repetitions,
however, to form a strong magnet.
Once done, however, it is quite permanent, and indeed, it builds upon
itself.
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Inducing a current flow in a
transformer. A
more exact analogy for this exercise is that of a transformer that induces a
current. The exercise actually
induces a kind of electrical current in the body. In a transformer, one wire that is connected to a battery or
energy source is placed next to another one, although they are not directly
connected. The current and voltage
from the first wire, when set up properly, is able to induce or cause a voltage
in the second wire. This is
somewhat of a good description of what is going on with the Roy Masters
meditation. The energized wire is
the energy that one moves through the body. The body itself is the other wire that becomes energized, as
a result.
FROM EXTERNALLY
CONTROLLED TO INTERNALLY MOTIVATED
This meditation helps enormously to shift the control or
major influence on a person from the world and its hidden forces and agendas,
toward control by the inner person.
This makes room in the mind and opens the way, later, for receiving
other excellent guidance that is not of this world.
Beware, however, any time the mind
is made receptive to guidance. Change in this direction, however,
takes time and occurs slowly and gently in most cases. If an opening occurs quickly, all the
better. However, one must be on
guard, at all times, against the intrusion of other beings into the mind who
are not benign, or who are less benign.
These are sometimes called negative souls or negative guides.
One must always use common sense in regard to following
any possible guidance. It is
imperative that one stay well rested, well-hydrated and well-nourished so the
mind never is allowed to become unbalanced or too tired.
Meditation allows one to unfold
from within, like a flower in the spring. In
our physical development, we grow
from the inside out, but mentally
most people grow from without to within. That is, oneÕs education, friends,
events and traumas shape the mind from the outside in. This meditation permits a different
kind of mental and emotional development from within. It occurs according to oneÕs personal plan, not by accident
or by the effects of others or random circumstances of ones life.
This is a fascinating concept of the unfoldment
of the mental and emotional nature of an individual and few methods permit this
type of unfoldment. I was told by Roy Masters and others that I might not even
recognize myself as I begin to unfold from within. But not to worry, they said, because my positive qualities
would be maintained. The only ones
that would drop away would be those that were not truly mine, but instead had
been Òslapped onÓ by unthinking or just unconscious parents, friends, teachers
and others. These need to be
removed. Some may not like the
Ònew youÓ but they are not your real friends, as the real ones will love that
you are Òcoming into your ownÓ in new ways.
THE ULTIMATE LIFESTYLE
MODIFICATION
This exercise is the ultimate lifestyle modification
because it will slowly shift a number of areas in your lifestyle, often in
interesting and unusual ways as you keep meditating.
IMPROVED
RELATIONSHIPS AND MORE LOVE
This meditation cultivates a relationship between the
inner self and the outer self. In
other words, it is a powerful way of cultivate a sincere, loving relationship
with yourself, one that is not a relationship with the ego self. To cultivate a relationship with the
ego self is easy, as the ego is always demanding things and one simply follows
the impulses to eat some ice cream, perhaps, or buy some new clothes or put on
some makeup to look better, perhaps.
This is a different kind of loving relationship that is
not about the ego self or even about the mind. The mind is actually part of the ego. The mind might make demands, too, such
as it wants to be entertained by going to a movie or perhaps it wants to be stimulated
by reading a fascinating article or book, even this one. This is still of the ego self, though
perhaps at a different level.
The relationship that is cultivated through this
meditation is actually still at an ego level, but so subtle that it is far more
health-producing and healing. It
is actually a relationship with the most subtle aspects of the body-mind and
spirit.
Because it is at this high level,
however, it tends to straighten out and improve all of oneÕs other
relationships with people, things, and events. By
working on this relationship, all other relationships improve because one is in
better touch with oneÕs deepest essence or higher self or God. For example, marriages often begin to
work better, or perhaps one may realize that this marriage is not going to
change much and another course of action is needed.
Children often begin to shape up and relate to your better
because most children are more in touch with their deeper self, having had less
time to learn and build up layers of ego defense mechanisms that adults
have. All other types of
professional and personal relationships also tend to get better. This does not mean they will all
continue, since some are unhealthy and one will become more acutely aware of
this fact. However, whatever
happens, one becomes much more authentic, genuine, present, and not as easily
fooled or manipulated by others.
While it is not discussed enough in psychology books, a
key to relating to others is to not allow them to manipulate conversations and
other activities. This may make
others angry, but in the end it is best for them, as well, of course, as it is
for oneself. Allowing others to
control and manipulate oneself is just an ego game that is Òpar for the courseÓ
in most human relationships. When
that comes to an end, some relationships will disintegrate or end, but that is
as it should be. They will be
replaced, inevitably, by better ones based upon deeper spiritual connections and real
friendship rather than seeing if one can get oneÕs way with others, as is the
more common style on earth.
As one learns to see oneself more
clearly, one sees others with more clarity and discernment. Of course, not all your friends and family will like
this. They may have been using
your anger against you, manipulating you with praise or blame, flattering you to
get what they want or intimidating you with idle threats. You will see all this more clearly and
the relationship will change.
One becomes less influenced by
images and illusions outside as you dissolve the images and illusions inside
your head. One becomes less gullible and less
vulnerable to other's attempts to deceive and control you.
If a couple meditates, it is like
adding a neutral third party or mediator to the relationship. This reduces ego fighting and the
battle of the wills that often occurs between mates. This
is an extremely powerful way of doing marriage counseling, by the way, without
having to pay counselors. However, both parties must really do the exercise
correctly, and that, unfortunately, is rare today. Usually one will do it thoroughly, while the other is still
stuck in what he or she believes is correct and cannot truly let go completely
into the exercise for fear that perhaps one will see that the perspective was
not correct, after all. This is
the only problem with recommending that a couple meditate together, so beware
of this possibility.
MEDITATION AND LOVE
By loving oneself through taking
the time and trouble to do this meditation, one becomes less dependent on the
love of others, yet able to enjoy the love of others more. Meditation allows you to practice true love. Many people want to be loving, but they
don't seem to know how. By connecting to your higher self or real self, one is
filled the love of the Creator.
This can then be shared with others in endless numbers of ways. It can truly allow a person to do as
the bible suggests, to Òbless and forgive this worldÓ in each moment.
This kind of love is detached, asks nothing in return, and
is therefore more pure and unconditional.
One can see what others really need, not what they think they need or
what they say they need. It is the
quality of compassion and not a
bargaining session, as too much of ÒloveÓ is on this planet, such as Òif you
love me I will love you. But if
you do this or that, then I donÕt love you any moreÓ. This is purely an ego type of love, and not very spiritual
at all.
By experiencing the Òreal thingÓ, one becomes aware of
selfish motives and feelings that one thought were love. These include attachment,
identification, projection, lust, ambition, sentimentality, enabling and
pride. One will be able to let
these go as one sees they are not very deep forms of love. This can help relationships of all
kinds in fabulous ways if a person can remember that love is always blind in
that it just loves, and does not look for anything in return.
EMOTIONAL CONTROL
This meditation is about getting
to "know thyself" at a much deeper level. It is an impartial way to study the self and the mind. As one understands the self more
deeply, power and control over the self increases. As you gain control over yourself, your emotions come
naturally more under your control and begin to even out. They just have less power and
effect.
In a sense, the real Armageddon is fought inside your
head. When you have conquered
yourself, meaning your own thoughts and emotions, dealing with the world is
much easier. The world situation,
you will see, is often no more
than a reflection of the struggle that goes on inside each of us. By changing yourself, the spiritual
struggle is won and the world tends to shift in amazing ways around you.
POWER AND AUTHORITY
WITH OTHERS
After meditating for a while, you may find yourself more
confident. You may also discover
that you will have more control or authority with others. Some people will not like this, by the
way, especially Òold friendsÓ and family who may have known you as you were
before.
These people are often ones that are used to having you
somewhat out of control so they can manipulate you in certain ways. This may sound negative, but is often
true, and is just one truth that you will learn as you continue to meditate.
You will see how people feign the truth, change their
voice to manipulate and control others, and use a hundred other sly methods,
often without realizing they are doing it, to control others. As you see and feel these, you will be
less influenced by them.
This will place you in a superior position of authority,
and they will be unhappy that their little tricks donÕt work any more. You must be ready for this, as it will
cause some anger on their part in most cases. But it is best, of course, as their manipulative actions and
words harm others and are not really helpful for the perpetrators, either.
GREATER ABILITY TO
LOVE AND HELP OTHERS
Many times, we wish to help others but it doesnÕt seem to
work out. By learning to love yourself using this particular exercise, you will
have a greater understanding of how to love others. Without any conscious effort on your
part, for example, you will cease to spread around your stress and your negative
thoughts and emotions you didn't even know you had. This alone can have an amazingly calming and uplifting
effect on everyone around you.
They may not understand it, but will just realize that somehow Mom, Dad,
Joe or Nancy is just nicer to be around these days.
You will have a greater sense of perspective and therefore
become more knowing and compassionate.
Compassion is a special kind of love in which you understand more. You will understand better what people
need, when to intervene and when to leave people alone. Without even realizing it, you will
start to manipulate people less and just allow them to be more. This also has a subtle calming effect
on some people, though not all.
HAPPINESS
Positivity and happiness can tend to be of two basic
types. This meditation tends to
cause one to develop an honest
positivity because one lets go of false negative ideas, delusions and
useless emotions such as thinking that I am ugly, stupid, stubborn and
worthless.
OneÕs understanding and perspective
begin to derive more and more from the high self or real self, which is happy,
free, relaxed and okay all the time because it is unaffected by the world. This kind of happiness develops slowly as layer after layer
of unreality or unhappy ideas and emotions are removed from your mind.
This is very different from the ÒhappinessÓ and Òpositive
thinkingÓ that many people experience, especially adults. Theirs is dependent upon temporarily
blocking out the negative ideas and emotions, usually by turning their focus to
something else such as their new house, their children, their job or friends or
family, sex, food or something else, perhaps.
While there is nothing wrong with any of these things, if
they are used to ignore or block out negativity, this is called a co-dependent
relationship and it is not healthy.
But is the common way in most peopleÕs lives. It is very different, for example, than the joy felt by a
newborn baby. They donÕt need a
new house or car or friend to feel good.
When they are fed and dry, can just be happy without all these things,
and they can often play by themselves for hours, as every mother and father
knows, in harmony and peace, it seems, and without needing to run away from
anything.
Increased awareness, or just
knowing more, as a result of meditation, can be a great source of happiness. We all want to understand ourselves and others better. Awareness can bring that understanding
and this is a source of joy for most people. Of course, awareness occasionally brings pain as one sees
that the world is not as one thought it was. But that usually passes if one realizes that knowing the
truth is best, even if it hurts, at times.
As you become happier inside, you will stop looking for
happiness outside yourself, and this relieves a great amount of anxiety and
stress, bringing even more happiness.
This is another secret of meditation of this type.
Another way this meditation brings happiness is that, as
the body heals, the cells begin to send messages of happiness and joy to the brain. This is a subtle type of happiness that
may not be appreciated by some people, but it is the truth that a healthy body
is easier to be happy within. Life
flows more easily, one can sleep, digest and eliminate better, and the hormones
that make us feel good are available in abundance. All this contributes to a happy outlook on life.
A POSITIVE MENTAL FOCUS
AND A NEW WAY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
This particular exercise can provide a new focus for oneÕs
life – to calm down, and become centered and more self-aware. These are ancient ways to refocus the
goals and purposes of oneÕs life that are not heard much today, but are
nevertheless wonderful ways to refocus oneÕs life. Any shift of focus
away from time-wasting and unhealthy ego pursuits has a healing effect.
Since meditation offers much greater clarity about ones
life, this alone can result in new directions, new pursuits, new occupations
and new relationships that are more healthful and satisfying.
Roy Masters likes to point out that this meditation is not
a way to directly solve problems, but a way to increase awareness. This will slowly bring new insights
that can help solve most problems.
The principle is Ôthe truth will set you freeÕ. J. Krishnamurti,
a famous author, once said, ÒAwareness
brings its own actionÓ.
Mental biofeedback. A principle used in the science of
biofeedback is ÒAnything you can
monitor, you can changeÓ.
Meditation is a form of biofeedback in that one monitors oneÕs thoughts
and other mental activities. As
one does this, thinking and feeling habits will change. Confucius said ÒIf you understand a problem deeply enough, you will have the answerÓ. Meditation is a way to study yourself
ever more deeply. This will bring
answers to many problems.
Becoming more objective. Meditation is like carefully a
studying a friend from an objective perspective. Often it is easier to solve friendÕs problems, because one
is less involved. The same will
occur with oneÕs own problems as they are seen more objectively. Common sense will take over in
many instances and help you solve your problem.
Learning to observe objectively. This meditation is a way to Ògather the
factsÓ about oneself and oneÕs situation in a new way. The trick is not to judge what you see
or observe. DonÕt say, ÒOh, but
this canÕt be. That person seems
so niceÓ.
Just keep observing and ask only for the truth to be
revealed. With enough insight,
solutions to problems become apparent.
There is no need or benefit to adding any new thoughts or ideas of your
own. It is enough to see what
is. The underlying premise is that
you know the answers. They are
just obscured by confusion and misperceptions. This meditation is, in fact, a removal process. This differs from many exercises that
seek to Òaffirm awayÓ or cover over negative or undesirable thoughts or
emotions.
Meditating in order to solve a problem is not the correct
motivation for meditation. One
should not Òmeditate on somethingÓ.
However, it is fine to begin with this motivation. Later you can change your motive to
just wanting greater awareness, which will in turn bring answers in their own
time. In the meantime, if you do
not know what to do about a problem, often it is best to just wait. In your helplessness, help will come.
STRESS REDUCTION
When the head is filled with
racing thoughts, one is often unaware of danger and stress until it becomes
extreme. As one meditates regularly with this
exercise, one becomes aware of stress sooner and can take faster action. One becomes more like the wild animals
who sense danger and react quickly, as by instinct.
For example, it allows you to feel tensions in the body
each moment, so one can change posture, habits or other causes rather than let
the tensions build up.
This meditation reduces stress in dozens of other ways as
well, such as reducing negative and illusory thoughts and feelings, reducing
stress on the nervous system, and more.
A POSITIVE STRESSOR
Emptying the self of the old and bringing in a new source
of energy functions as a positive stressor. This means it stresses one, but in a
positive or beneficial way. It
brings in more truth, along with the subtle energy, so one can say it is the
stress of truth and awareness.
This places a spiritual stress
on one that can result in character development.
The stress of needing to
change. This meditation exercise will show
one the truth about many things. One is not forced to act on the
information, but If one does not act, the truth will be brought up over and
over again. This is an
interesting effect of increasing oneÕs awareness. Sadly, it causes some people to stop meditating, as they do
not want to be reminded of certain truths.
SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT
This meditation moves energy
downward through the body, from the head to the feet. This actually balances and opens all of the physical chakras
or energy centers on the physical body.
Slowly, this not only has a physical healing effect, but also it brings
more etheric or vital energy into the body. This process is explained more in a separate
article on this website entitled Downward Motion
And Healing.
DESCENDING INTO HELL
AND COMING BACK AGAIN AT WILL
Sometimes this meditation can feel like you are descending
into a kind of hell or muck that is inside. The great thing is you are in control, so you dip into it,
let the light shine on it, and when you have had enough for one day, you come
back out of it and back into your waking state.
By doing this daily, a number of things happen:
1. You become more comfortable
with your subconscious mind, its dark thoughts or feelings. You learn to tolerate the muck
better and better, able to move in and out of it, through it, and so on
comfortably without getting slimed.
2. You see more truth about
yourself.
3. You will and must come to
actually love and, in a way, admire this ÒunderbellyÓ, substructure, or
whatever you want to call it. This makes
you a more loving person, in fact.
You are learning to love an important part of yourself that most people
donÕt even realize exists.
However, it is a very important part of yourself and your development
and structure as a person.
4. Eventually, you come to embrace
more and more parts of your mind and your self. This is powerful and important for many reasons. Not only will you know much more about
who you really are, for example, with all the benefits of this knowledge. But also, for example, you will no
longer feel the common and often strange need to run away from certain people,
ideas, feelings or activities.
Most people dodge parts of their life, totally
unconsciously, of course, but this is what they do. They ÒdonÕt want to go thereÓ, as the phrase is called. Instead, they run to the parts of
themselves and the activities they know and like more, not realizing that the
motive is often to avoid other parts or thoughts or activities that remind them
of unhealed parts of their mind.
5. The real self, or the new
energy spoken of above that flows in using this exercise, slowly heals all the
unhealed parts of your mind. It slowly
eliminates the dark thoughts, unsightly emotions and more.
This tends to happen quite automatically, by the way, as
long as you donÕt stop it and as long as you continue to meditate this
particular way. Amazingly, you
will not need to visit counselors for years, for example, when you find
something you donÕt like, or something that is just no longer appropriate or no
longer what you want or need. You
may visit a counselor, of course, but you will find that many of your
Ôhang-upsÕ, fears, anxieties, hostilities, grudges, prejudices and much more
just seem to evaporate one day on their own, without needing to talk about them
for hours, or even understand them.
This is quite remarkable.
The insights and change will usually not come while you are
meditating. They tend to come
afterwards, while you are just about your daily work or play. This may be because what occurs during
meditation sets up new patterns in the mind, and when you return to everyday
life the new pattern interacts and actually conflicts with your ÔoldÕ behaviors
and thoughts, and suddenly you realize that you donÕt like your old ways, which
were usually unconscious, and you see that you can change quite easily.
This is a simple, clean, easy and
inexpensive way to change any ÔbadÕ habit, attitude, or behavior.
6.
Eventually, you will become very proficient dealing with your unconscious or
sub-conscious mind. It is like getting good at karate or ju jyutsu fighting methods. And it is fun. It gives you an amazing power over yourself
that others will find enviable. It
can also help you through many tight situations.
7. Eventually, you will conquer
the mind. This means you will be more in control
of your thoughts and feelings. Conquering the mind is rare on earth. It means you are more in charge, not
your subconscious programming, old emotional wounds and traumas, and old
thinking patterns.
TRAUMA AND DARK
THOUGHT RELEASE PROCESS
The
process of releasing traumas through this exercise is rather interesting. It seems to be able to gently bring the
mind to a peaceful place where you can view old incidents and traumas from a
detached perspective, almost as if they happened to someone else. In this way, you can avoid some of the
fear and anxiety that occur when old traumas are brought up to
consciousness. This is what I mean
that the process is rather interesting.
Also,
the incidents and traumas, if they come up, will be brought up in a special
order that is not your own.
Instead, it is the bodyÕs own order of trauma release. This is also important because many
people think they know the correct order in which traumas should surface, but
in fact, they do not because the brain is complex and the proper order of
trauma release can be very subtle.
Incidents or situations, for example, that you donÕt even consider
traumatic may have been quite so.
In contrast, the situation that you consider traumatic may be less
important than some situations that occurred long before, perhaps, that Òset
you upÓ for later problems. This
is one of the few exercises that can help release traumas in this way.
The
Roy Masters meditation with my modification is also a perfect companion for a
nutritional balancing program to release traumas. For more on this important topic, read Trauma Release and Trauma Retracing on this website.
PROCEDURAL MATTERS
RELATED TO THE EXERCISE
Distractions. You will probably find you cannot do the exercise for very
long without becoming distracted.
Thoughts arise, as may songs, memories or things you have to do later
that day. Your body may itch or
hurt, or you may even fall asleep.
Just observe the thoughts and feelings without judgment and then bring
your attention back to your hand.
Bring the attention back to the right hand thousands of
times, if needed. Slowly, your
mind will learn not to stray quite as much. You are training part of your mind
to observe at all times. Some days
will be easier than others.
Results. You may notice results within a week or less, or results may
take longer. You may feel calmer,
more detached, and you may gain insights.
Often the insights will not come while meditating. They may come while you are doing the
dishes or driving your car.
Each time you meditate, you alter the way you perceive the
world. You will see things
slightly differently. Some of what
you see may not be pleasant. Just
watch it all from a neutral place.
Suggestions.
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Do
the exercise as much as you can and, if possible, at least twice a day. You can
do it anytime and anywhere, although certainly do not do it while driving or
some other dangerous activity. Roy
Masters teaches that eventually you will be doing the exercise 24 hours a day.
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Each
time you practice it, do the exercise as though it were the first time. It should never become a habit or
mechanical. Do it a little deeper
each time.
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Make
meditation part of your lifestyle.
Schedule it into your day so you donÕt overlook this important new part
of your life.
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Be
patient. Benefits come in their
own time, not when you think they should.
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Some
days it will be easier to meditate than others. Several months to years may be required to refocus your
mind. Just keep at it. It is something like training or
retraining an old dog or cat. It
may not be easy and the old reactive mind or Ômonkey mindÕ, as some call it,
will fight you hard at times to stay in control, and to keep you out of
control.
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If
at all possible, be open to seeing the truth about everything, and to waking up
and seeing yourself as you really are. You will see your faults and
shortcomings. You will also become aware of many qualities and abilities that
you didn't know you had. This is
all part of the process as you become free of your past and all the false notions
that you learned from your environment.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU
HAVE TROUBLE MEDITATING
It is perfectly normal to have difficulty meditating with
this exercise at times, particularly when starting out. Here are several suggestions:
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Make
meditation part of your daily lifestyle.
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Set things up so you have the time to
do it in peace.
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Turn
off the phone and, if needed, arrange for someone to watch children.
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Go
to the office early if you cannot meditate at home.
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Ideally,
set up a special room and chair that you use just for meditation.
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On
difficult days, think of disciplining an unruly child who has been spoiled for
40 or more years. Sometimes it
will resist a lot. DonÕt worry
about it. Just say, ÒOK, weÕll do
our best and perhaps better tomarrow.Ó
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If
you are an athlete or train at anything, you know that training involves good
and bad days. Just take it all in
stride. Meditation involves
discipline, which comes from the same root as the word ÔdiscipleÕ. It is not about forcing things. It is about gently staying with or
following your path and the results will come.
Gimmicks. Use gimmicks to help you stay with meditation. An excellent gimmick, if it can be
called that, is to use a CD or cassette tape to help you maintain your focus
and to time your sessions.
Another gimmick is to do the exercise while walking
slowly, if you cannot sit still, as I have had trouble doing. I also learned to meditate while doing
a coffee enema that was part of a physical healing program I undertook. It was a perfect time to meditate, as I
was forced to lie still for 20 minutes or so while retaining the enema.
Any place you are confined to a chair such as during an
airplane flight or at a pleasant concert can be an excellent place to
meditate. Meditate in the bathroom
stall if that is the only peaceful place where you find yourself.
MEDITATION GROUPS
Some people function better alone, while others prefer a
group setting for prayer and meditation.
Therefore I will discuss the benefits and disadvantages of each situation.
Benefits of groups. These are many.
Among them are:
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Social networking and social
interaction. This
may ease tensions, spreads friendships and love, and relaxes some people.
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A positive group setting. For some people, getting out of their home or work
environment and going to a clean, happy group setting is a wonderful benefit,
especially if the home is chaotic, noisy or lack moral and other types of
support for the person.
However,
this usually involves more time, driving, and some disruption of oneÕs regular
schedule, so a balance must be struck.
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Dealing with meditation problems. Groups can sometimes bring up and deal with problems that
occur during meditation better.
These have been discussed in the paragraphs above.
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Help with discipline and consistency.
Groups definitely
help those who are not as good with discipline.
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Group love and healing. This means that there is an energy in a good group that can
relax, ease tensions and help heal everyone in the group. Some need and want this more than
others. Very advanced students may
be held back by this energy, however.
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More learning. Group settings can be good for spreading more knowledge.
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Spiritual development and healing,
especially for beginners. Group energies can be
extremely beneficial and positive for new members, especially. This has to do with the field of energy
that is created by any group process.
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Easier for some guides to work
with groups. Guidance is real and present
always. Guides can often work more
easily with some prayer and meditation groups because there is a common, shared
bond of energy. This is most
important, once again, for beginners.
Later, guides prefer working on one person at a time in a more isolated
setting such as at home, rather than in a diverse group with many levels of
energies and abilities.
Problems with groups. These include:
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Slows the more developed people. The energy of the group is often not clean and pure enough
for a more advanced person. Thus
groups are usually best for beginners, although not all of the time.
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Inadequate leadership can disrupt
or even ruin a group.
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Distractions. For example, socializing and networking at group meetings is
fun, but can waste time and be distracting for the more serious participants.
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Power and control issues, at
times. Struggles often develop in groups for
leadership, for time spent talking to the group, and other things. This can dilute the benefits of the
group.
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Logistics problems. One must drive and spend extra time going to and from the
group. Group meetings may be at
inconvenient times or places.
People may have to wait for the group, and go at the pace of the
group. All of this, at
times, can waste valuable time.
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Going off course. Groups can easily deviate from the stated purpose of the
group. This is often led by
beginners who donÕt understand the purpose of the group well enough. It must be stopped gently but
firmly. Otherwise, the group
transforms into something different than it was intended.
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Safety. Sometimes groups are not safe, as predators may join to pick
up women or men, or for other selfish reasons. Leaders need to be sensitive to such issues.
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Advanced students generally make
faster progress on their own, though not necessarily.
HOW TO COPE WITH
WHAT COMES UP DURING MEDITATION SESSIONS
One reason some do not continue with meditation is the
fact that, at times, negative thoughts or feelings from within a person arise
and this can be very disconcerting.
If possible, learn to just observe whatever comes up during meditation.
Be grateful for seeing the truth, even if it is
unpleasant. You do not have to
react in any way. Definitely do
not judge yourself or others. If
you wallow in your thoughts or insights, it will keep them around. It is best to view all thoughts,
emotions and insights as you would view clouds in the sky. As they arise, just observe them and
let them go.
CAN CHILDREN
MEDITATE?
This
exercise is quite sophisticated and will be quite difficult for children to
do. Also, most will not be
interested in it. If they are, so
much the better. However, Mr.
Masters says that for children, the
presence of a parent who meditates, and who is clear and centered as a result,
is meditation for a child.
By
the way, the same is true of a couple if one person meditates and the other
does not. To some degree, the mere
presence of the one who meditates is a type of meditative practice for the
other person. He or she will feel
many of the effects of the meditation, such as the arising of deeply held
emotions and thoughts, that will come up spontaneously, at times, when around
the person who meditates. This can
be difficult for a relationship, incidentally, if the one who does not meditate
does not wish to see the truth.
HOW DOES THIS
MEDITATION DIFFER FROM THE OTHER EXERCISES?
Prayer, for some people, is not so
different from this meditation in some ways. Both can involve asking and emptying the self, for
example. However, many times
prayer is a more rote exercise for people involving just the repeating of
various words and phrases. This is
not the same. This meditation does
not require or involve any words or phrases or mantras at all. In fact, it is purely energetic and if
you add any words, prayers or mantras to it, you will either negate it
altogether or at least weaken its effect.
However, to say a prayer at the beginning, and even for a
while at the end to help with closure, is fine. But realize the exercise is very specific to bring in a new
energy by emptying the self of the old.
Prayers also often specific rituals and doctrines. This meditation requires no doctrine
whatsoever. The only ritual is to
empty the self and allow and even force the energy down from the head into the hand
and eventually the feet. That is
all. OneÕs religion, nationality
or belief systems do not matter in the least.
In fact, this is a danger with this meditation, in that
anyone can use it for his or her benefit, even if the person is not the most
honest or high integrity person.
This is a danger with this method.
I am not too concerned, however, because the exercise takes a fair
amount of work and dedication to receive the benefits.
Is it a religion? This exercise is certainly not a
religion, and can be done by anyone, as stated above. However, I see it as the basis for a new religion,
perhaps. The reason is that it is
a way to get in touch with oneself, which is the real meaning and desire of
religions. The danger, of course,
is that someone will design a religion around the exercise and fill it with
other rituals and doctrines until the basic exercise is forgotten. This has happened before in history.
Is it relaxation, visualization,
self-hypnosis and concentration? The exercise
does involve some visualization and some concentration. However, these are not the goal or the
central focus of the exercise.
That is how it differs from most of these other exercises. This meditation is certainly not
self-hypnosis, a concept that is the very opposite of wanting to remove or
eliminate all hypnotic tendencies of the mind.
Repetition of words, phrases or mantras tends to produce a
somewhat hypnotic state, and this is one reason this is not employed with this
exercise.
What about breathing with the
exercise? This is not required. Adding special breathing, such as
counting to 10, or holding the mouth or tongue a special way, can definitely
distract one and slow progress with this exercise.
If one wishes, a very simple breathing method called
circle breathing may be used an might enhance progress. One simply moves energy up the back
during the inhale and down the front of the body on the exhale. That is all there is to it. However, recall that one is supposed to
be moving energy down the body at all times, so this should be done as
well. In fact, energy will
circulate this way – up the back and down the front – to some
degree. However, pushing the
energy or drawing the energy down the front is by far the most critical and
important.
MEDITATION AND THE
PURPOSE OF LIFE
This exercise concerns some basic qualities of life on a
metaphysical level:
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Self-awareness. This is a purely human trait, one
not shared much by animals or other life forms. This meditation directly assists anyone to increase
self-awareness.
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Healing. While diet, lifestyle, nutritional supplements and
detoxification are all critical and never to be overlooked, the mind is also
very important for healing. It is
either your friend and ally or, in many people, it just gets in the way. Worry, fears, desires, racing around
all the time and other things use up most peopleÕs energy. This meditation can do a lot to bring
the mind under your control and learn to use it to assist healing on many
levels.
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Spiritual development. The development of the chakras or energy centers of the body
is everyoneÕs birthright as a human being. Very few, however, make much progress with it. This meditation allows it and assists
it easily. This can extend life and
allow achievements that most people cannot even imagine. We have all read about the possible unfoldment of super-human abilities in ordinary human
beings. This meditation may allow
this to occur for you as well.
Most people live the ego lifestyle, going from goal to
goal, often trampling others to achieve their goals. Meditation allows you to grow from the inside. You will
find, if you do the exercise regularly, that your outer life, work,
relationships, family matters and more will change for the better, often in
unusual ways. As you meditate, you
let go of the blocks that are in the way of your happiness and success.
References
Masters,
R., How Your Mind Can Keep You Well,
The Foundation of Human Understanding, Grants Pass, Oregon, www.fhu.com.
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