Meditation
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | Business Insights, Featured, healthly living
There’s a study out there that my favorite guru, Wayne Dyer, mentioned in his CD set “There’s a spiritual solution to every problem.” It shows how powerfully meditation increases the experience of peace.
Seretonin levels in the people’s bodies were measured before and after meditation.
Seretonin is the neurotransmitter that gives the body (the meat, including the brain, that we are all made of) the ability to experience and feel peace. After meditation, seratonin was measurably increased in every single person.
What’s even more trippy is that if there was another group of people that were told to just sit and watch the other group meditating… their levels of peace-neurotransmitters would be increased as well. Just watching!
So lately, I have found that I have problems in my life. OMG! Immagine that! What I’ve been doing to “fix” these so-called problems is saturating myself with spiritual texts, Wayne’s CDs and a ton of meditation.
The greatest thing about doing all that - is that the problems don’t really get fixed so much as I just experience more peace, see my problems as simply “what’s happening” and I allow my life to unfold and reveal “my next move.” Granted, I still think of the stuff as problems but I really get that it’s my crazy and conditioned ego and mind that keep trying to assert that I do, indeed, have problems. And I’m sure there are some reading this thinking, “yup, I know that girl… she’s got problems alright!” 
But seriously, meditation, the more I do, the more the situations I call problems no longer look like problems to me. I see simply actions and people and how my choice have delivered me to exactly this place.
The other gift of meditation is that in seeing how I have manifested this current reality thru my past choices… I am non-judgemental of that. The reason this occurs is that meditation I am doing is the act of sitting still and emptying the mind. I practice my meditation simply by sitting still and being silent or doing jappa meditation. Now, I might be spelling this wrong, but Jappa is meditation with making a simple sound over and over: aaaaaahhhh
That’s all I do… sit still and go “aaaaaahhhhhm. aaaaaaahhhmmm.” over and over for about 20 minutes a day in the morning (along with a good amount of reading and divination and journaling) as well as at every stoplight or spare minute I have durring the work day.
I’m a self-emplyed scatter-brain so it really helps to just stop and meditate for a while so I can move on to the next perfect task. Because usually, if I’m stuck in overwhelm or procrastination or the classic “I don’t wanna!” I just sit my butt down. Breathe deep. Get quiet. Maybe say a few “AAAAAHHHHS” and inevitably….
The next move just makes itself very very obvious.
ah, peace!
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