| Meditation is Trusting Ourselves by Jim Tobin Meditation. Mention that you practice meditation to the wrong person and they begin imitating what they envision a Zen Buddhist does in meditation. You are subject to them waving their arms and making weird noises at you as they ramble on about nirvana or some such thing. Suggesting somehow, that you are the strange one. I am often astonished about how little is known about meditation. I forget that I have been practicing it for many years, and that most people do not use meditation in their lives. I think they do, they just don't realize it. When I asked my arm-waving cousin if she ever prayed, she said yes. Prayer is a form of meditation. Let's move beyond prayer for this discussion and talk about the meditation that you are more likely to do. Why do we meditate? One reason is for the betterment of self. And in the betterment of self are many more reasons. We meditate on our health. We meditate on creating abundance in our lives. We meditate to better understand ourselves. But how do we understand ourselves in meditation? We can start by looking at the things in our lives that are going well. It is important to look at the positive in our lives. By meditatively looking at what is going right in our lives, we can learn how to create more of the positive in our lives. When we meditatively take the time to truly see how we created that new job, or how we created the wonderful people around us, we can begin to understand the patterns that we take when we are being successful. In opposition to our success, we can also look at the downfalls we may have experienced. We do fail at times. By using meditation and centering ourselves, we can look for the montage and insights that can lead us to avoiding failure and disappointments in the future. As we meditatively look for clues and answers, we can create a road map that can be used to avoid failure or at least lessen its impact on our lives. We can get to the emotions that we felt before failure happened. Looking at these emotions to see if we were in our spiritual adult, or were behaving as a child, or adolescent. The spiritual adult is the adult who does not live a life controlled by their negative ego. They live not as an adult child or adult adolescent, they live as an adult, sure of themselves and who they are. Meditation can help you begin to see the patterns of not living as a spiritual adult. When you find those examples, (and you will), you can forgive yourself and change. We are not here to fool and play pattycake with ourselves; we are here for growth. We are here to be truthful with ourselves. Meditation can help you find your guides, or as I call them, my unseen friends. Friends that are here for you and can give you insights. Assuredly your higher consciousness is available to you, as are aspects of your soul and spirit. Personify these aspects. Put a face to your higher consciousness. Create an area in your mind were you meet your higher consciousness. A safe place were the world is all your own. Perhaps a garden or grove of your creation. Create a safe place that is impenetrable to others and is only for you. A place to have intimate conversations with aspects of yourself in complete safety. In this safe place, create a resonance of love and then flow that love into the part of you that is the greater of you, not the better of you. Allow this higher consciousness to manifest itself and know that it is part of you. Begin to ask questions, begin to allow the possibility that you can hear and receive answers from your higher consciousness. Allow the possibility that you and your higher consciousness have an inseparable bond. A bond and link that you can have for all you're days. A trusted friend. Personify your Soul, personify your Spirit. Bring these aspects of you into your safe place and allow the dialog and insights to develop. You do not have to personify any aspect if you do not want to. You create what you want when you want it. If working with your higher consciousness in a more abstract form is better for you, than trust yourself and know that is the way it should be. Over time you may develop other friends to help you, friends that you may use in unique situations -- troubleshooters to help you navigate the unique life you are crafting. We can continually work on ourselves until the day we die. Growth never ends. That is why it is important to use your meditations for other than personal growth. Spread it out, have some fun. Save the world. I believe that thought creates reality. My thoughts, your thoughts, anybody's thoughts, all create the world we live in. And in our world there are trouble spots like the Middle East, Korea, the Balkans, to name just a few. We also have economic concerns and political concerns; there are many opportunities for us to work our magic. In meditation we can change our world, we can change our world in accordance with our will. Meditation for change is powerful. We, the dreamers of our world are changing our world as we know it. By meditatively envisioning a better world we create a better world. Not true you say? If meditation works on a personal level, what limiting belief would prevent meditation from working on a global scale? Meditation is trusting ourselves. When we trust ourselves the limitations to our potential lessen and we begin to expand beyond what we currently are. We begin to think and act differently. We begin to think of the growth we have accomplished for ourselves and begin to apply it globally. The visualizations that are in our meditations are not put there by us to just amuse ourselves. We visualize what we want to create. We always create what we get; now we should begin to create what we want. What are your preferences? What do you want for yourself? What do you want for the world? Jim Tobin lives in Wyoming, MN and can be reached by e-mail at tobin58@citlink.net Copyright (c) 2003 Jim Tobin |
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