What is Meditation?
First and foremost, meditation is a balancing technique. When balance increases, our awareness expands and all the benefits of meditation begin to unfold.
Actually there are many experiences of intense focus that produce meditative states and some examples are: a mother cradling her child and flowing loving feelings or an athlete focusing with precision on the task at hand.
The difference is that, when you meditate, it's an internal focus as opposed to an external focus. When we sit, we close our eyes and focus within. We eliminate external distractions and focus on our internal experience.
Most of us live a dynamic modern lifestyle with a focus on the objective or external world. The result is that we miss our inner experience which is happening simultaneously. Meditation, with its internal focus, helps us to emphasize the inner, subjective polarity of our experience. A consistent meditation practice, then, helps create balance between our external and internal experience.
With greater balance through meditation we are able to expand our awareness and be more present in the moment to whatever is happening in our lives.
Actually there are many experiences of intense focus that produce meditative states and some examples are: a mother cradling her child and flowing loving feelings or an athlete focusing with precision on the task at hand.
The difference is that, when you meditate, it's an internal focus as opposed to an external focus. When we sit, we close our eyes and focus within. We eliminate external distractions and focus on our internal experience.
Most of us live a dynamic modern lifestyle with a focus on the objective or external world. The result is that we miss our inner experience which is happening simultaneously. Meditation, with its internal focus, helps us to emphasize the inner, subjective polarity of our experience. A consistent meditation practice, then, helps create balance between our external and internal experience.
With greater balance through meditation we are able to expand our awareness and be more present in the moment to whatever is happening in our lives.