Power of meditation
A normal person uses only five per cent of his/her potential power, while some extraordinarily successful people use around 10 per cent of it. The rest of everyone’s potential goes waste.
The mind’s potential energy is often wasted in unnecessary thinking, worrying, doubting, anxiety, fear etc. Meditation helps in conserving this energy.
Thoughts have power if they are focused, without doubts and negativity. But unfocused thoughts dissipate energy and weaken thought-power, while meditation helps strengthen it. To take an example, mere steam produced from boiling water cannot move anything, but the same steam when channelled can run even a rail engine with its many bogies.
Meditation is a state wherein the mind is calm, pure, positive, caring, loving, compassionate and friendly. This state acts as a bridge between one’s inner self and the external world which is, in fact, a reflection of the inner self. The purer the inner self is, the better the external world becomes. Meditation purifies the inner self. Everyone must strive to achieve this state of meditation as early in life as possible.
The question is how to meditate: what is the best technique, time and place for meditation?
Indian spiritual guru Ramana Maharshi said, “The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.” But along with regular meditation, one should have a positive approach to life, accept things as they are, avoid negative reactions and try to be happy and spread happiness around.
Any technique that suits one’s nature is fine for meditation. One can try to meditate in breath, by chanting a mantra, by focusing on an object, on any God, or even on an empty space. One can also meditate on one’s body, the five senses, on the lotus in the heart or on the shat (six) chakras as per kundalini yoga.
The best time to meditate is early morning (before sunrise) and late night (just before sleep). But one can also meditate at a time that suits you. Try to meditate for short spells (say for five or 10 minutes), at least two to three times a day. One can choose any place to meditate which is free of disturbance and where one feels comfortable because the ultimate goal of meditation is self-realisation and enlightenment.
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