The importance and benefits of meditation and being meditative are fairly well-known and widely acknowledged.
In terms of physical and mental health and wellness, meditation is widely known to be of immense value. While it can help heal many different ailments and illnesses, meditation also helps in one’s material, sicial and spiritual goals.
Very simply, meditation or meditativeness may be said to be an inner cleansing. This cleansing, in a sense, sweeps away thoughts and feelings, especially the debilitating ones that somehow keep one trapped and tied to states of misery, pain and want.
As long as most thoughts and emotions hold sway, meditativeness remains a distant goal. Notice how when one starts the practice of meditation, every time one closes their eyes, many different thoughts and feelings begin to rise to the surface. Unfortunately, most human thoughts and emotions tend to be negative and are related to some kind of unhappy, painful or traumatic past memories or future anxieties…
Only when these waves of thoughts and feelings begin to settle, does a meditative state begin to be experienced.
When meditativeness happens, one feels very calm, relaxed and at peace. That means, one is not being troubled by painful past memories or future worries.
Most of the usual negative thoughts and feelings tend to hurt or even destroy human lives at many different levels – physical, emotional, social, financial, career-related, mental, spiritual and so on.
Naturally, that means these negative states are to be avoided and overcome in our best interests. The impact of overcoming them can be very wide-reaching in all areas of our lives.
Essentially, being meditative means one has quietened, silenced or succeeded in lowering the intensity of most of the negative thoughts and emotions.
While yoga, pranayama, chanting, good music, reading, nature walks, hobbies and numerous physical and other activities help slow the flow of debilitating thoughts and emotions fir a time, it’s important that one does some useful core practices regularly to induce those meditative states.
In my experience, breath-watching and breathwork practices has proved to be immensely useful.
Certain breathwork practices induce meditative states within minutes. Continuing them for progressively longer periods means, meditativeness becomes almost a second nature.
As long as we live and need to function in social situations, enough drama and situations will arise that will impact meditative states adversely. However, regular practice of one’s core meditative activities will help restore the beautiful meditative balance more and more easily…
And, that means one need not seek solitude and sit in padmasana only to experience meditativeness. It can and will happen anywhere and everywhere…
– rajyogi (rajesh kanoi)
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