Three goals for meditation.

1. Relaxation
2. Alignment
3. Self-reflection

There may be more goals, and for everyone, meditation is a “proprietary process” with a “proprietary purpose. But these three goals I use for myself and when teaching ‘students’.

1. Relaxation

Meditation is not necessarily a goal in itself. We live in a tense world because we want to be ourselves but also have to relate to so many others around us. To relax, we exercise, read a book or watch a nice movie. But actually all those things are also a certain effort. Getting our body and mind fully rested we do by sleeping. But even during our sleep there are moments of tension, you can know that when your jaws clench and you wake up sweating.

Meditation, in this sense, is a conscious form of relaxed sleep. You consciously bring your body and mind to rest. You learn to let go. You embrace silence. Your breathing is what you focus on when you are distracted by your thinking.

This first goal is the beginning of becoming a master of meditation. Learning to relax. And this meditation is not an end in itself, because meditating an hour a week and walking around tense the rest of the time anyway doesn’t accomplish much. The goal is that the meditation gives you the tools to be able to be relaxed in your daily life even without meditation when you choose to be.

2. Alignment

This second goal is to attune yourself to the unseen world. Connecting yourself with “the one consciousness”, the Akasha, all of nature, all of the universe, God. Prophets, inventors and clairvoyants get their insights this way, in attunement with “the whole”.

When you can relax enough and have learned to listen in the silence, then you gain access to “everything”. This is where man can bridge his fourth dimension (space/time) to higher dimensions. This is where the spiritual conversation is held.

Unconsciously, every human being is already connected. As a species, we are on our way to becoming aware of this and consciously choosing to do so. It is our human potential and only when this takes shape will we truly be human.

3. Self-reflection

Using meditation for self-reflection is the third and most difficult goal to achieve. It is learning to look at yourself without judgment and without defense. You step out of yourself, so to speak. There is compassion, but also total honesty. This is where you get the insights into who you really are compared to what roles you occupy on Earth.

The ultimate letting go takes place here. It is not a mental exercise of self-reflection, but a pure form in meditation. This is very difficult, because here your mental faculties do have to be fully present in that “stillness of meditation”. So you are fully awake and you are meditating. Meditating with your eyes open you might say.

Concluding:

Man has been meditating for thousands of years. All prophets and sages have meditated on their way to “enlightenment”. We are on our way, and meditation is a tool to use first as a handle with the goal of living in a meditative state of being. It is a process, beginning as a method and ending as an attribute.

Why not give it a try? Be able to (learn to) relax.

Busy busy busy

Master: “Have you meditated yet?”
Pupil: “Sorry master, I was too busy and had no time to meditate.”
Master: “So then it was really time to meditate.”

The fact that we get caught up in the issues of the day makes us need meditation more than ever.

You can only escape from the illusion by consciously stepping out of it. All you need for this is willpower. For it is that same will that keeps you running in circles. When you use that willpower differently, your world is going to change.

It’s the same with addictions. Actually, being busy is also an addiction. A distraction from things you don’t want to think about or face. Resting and doing nothing can seem like having no control. Letting go of everything can create great uncertainty.

Can you go for an hour’s walk when you have a list of activities and a full schedule? And then when you return from walking first connect with loved ones. Then have lunch at your leisure. Finally, before you start “work”, meditate for 15 minutes.

Funnily enough, you don’t necessarily need the meditating if you can live like this, because then you are already more or less living in a meditative state. Meditating is also not an activity you do regularly for a while, but a permanent attitude to life. During specific meditation sessions you keep up and deepen.

Busy busy busy exists only in the mental field and it is all illusion. You can choose it, but then it also costs you a lot. The mental field causes us to live unhealthily; we are lived by it. It expresses itself in many forms. Food is just a fuel, but man makes it an end in itself.

Every time you brush your teeth you can meditate. It is a choice to put yourself to that. Willpower. Becoming more consciously aware. Just being still in your head and breathing well. Connecting yourself to the collective consciousness or to God. Feeling your body and feeling the energy flow. Being grateful for that.

`Connection

When we look at our body, at all the cells that make up our body, we understand that everything in our body is interconnected. Not only is everything physically connected, we know that the whole is controlled from an intelligent center. Even the parts that function largely autonomously are connected to that center.

When the center dies, the whole body dies. Now people will think that two organs can fulfill this role, namely the brain and the heart. Obviously, these two organs are vital and when they die, then the body cannot continue to live either. However, the question is whether those two organs are the center I am writing about here.

The point is, I am not my body. I have my physical body, but I am not that. I am more than my body. And the same goes for my thinking, I am more than my thinking. I am even more than my consciousness, although that consciousness has a lot to do with my soul. However, this is a story in itself and goes beyond what I want to talk about here on self-healing and connection.

Let me assume for this writing that my consciousness is the center from which my body and thinking are controlled. That my consciousness essentially connects with every cell in my body. Every cell knows what to do and various organs work autonomously, but my consciousness determines my life and death. All cells and organs are intelligent and connected to my consciousness.

My health is then determined by the degree of connection with my consciousness. When my consciousness is separated from my body and thinking, then I die. When cells and organs take on a life of their own and start operating separately from my consciousness, then diseases arise that can eventually lead to the death of the whole body.

What I want to make clear is that life can be healthy because all the cells in a body are connected to consciousness. And if you carry that analogy through to the universe in which we all live, then you understand that every human being must be connected to the consciousness of this universe like a cell to keep it healthy. When people become disconnected, a piece of the universe dies.

When people separate themselves from the consciousness of this universe, it irrevocably leads to the death of those people. Just as cancer can fester in a human body, a separation that is ultimately life-threatening, people can fester in the universe. They are out of connection, separated from the consciousness of the universe in which they live.

But death lurks, for the entire universe. Something will have to be done about this cancer. Again, I don’t want to go further into this concept either, but you can hopefully see the examples in today’s evolution on Earth. We have a big problem. However, this writing continues with the understanding that we individual humans must be connected to the consciousness of our universe.

You can call that God, but I personally have little faith in the various religions that have hijacked God for their own interests. Nor does it matter so much what we call “it”, as long as we recognize and acknowledge “it”. Unity consciousness, God, nature, the sourceof all life, all words that can never adequately represent what “it” is. That with which we are connected.

Now when I talk about self-healing, it is very important that you are aware of your connection to the consciousness of the universe. It is not about prayer or other religious rituals, but about an inner knowing and human will to be part of the whole. That intention is essential to becoming, being and remaining healthy. You are not separate, but we are one.

Meditation is the way to consciously seek and engage that connection. In so many areas, meditation is a very good way to live a more pleasant life together. We know that all the sages who have lived on Earth have used meditation on their way to enlightenment. They are an example for every human being and therefore I highly recommend (learning) to meditate.