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Purpose of Meditation – Part 1 of 6
by
Master Jenny T. Liu, M.A.
Monday,
July
7, 2008 |
The benefits of meditation are available to
everyone at any time. Meditation can be adapted to suit your skill level, needs and karmic level. It is extremely affordable to practice, while the value and results exceed your wildest imagination. In this six-part series, I will introduce you to the purposes of meditation, as well as the actual discipline of meditation itself.
Your mind power is related to both the conscious and subconscious realms. Your conscious mind receives information based on your five senses and takes care of all matters related to physical living – eating, seeing, working, driving, thinking - all of which become the focus of your time and energy. Your subconscious mind receives information beyond your five senses as it is connected to the higher intelligence of your intuition, or sixth sense, and universal energy. Your true essence lies here, as do the answers to your questions and the purpose of your life.
Your mind power is ninety-five percent subconscious and five percent conscious. Your subconscious mind is almost twenty times more powerful than your conscious mind. While subconscious possibilities are plentiful, how do you bring that energy into your conscious life? Meditation allows you to tap into your subconscious.
I like to think of meditation as martial arts for the brain. Just as martial artists are able to direct and focus their energy and amplify their strength beyond normal bonds, (seen in their ability to break wooden boards, crack bricks and rupture organs with bare hands), meditation allows you to focus and direct your mental power beyond just thinking and receiving information. It allows you to use your brain’s power to affect your biological body as well as
create external change in your life. When you access your subconscious,
you enter the realm of self-cultivation and achieving the life you’ve
dreamed of.
Meditation creates a positive mind frame that attracts positive events.
Meditation allows you to release negative concepts and obstacles. The
ultimate goal of meditation is to reach enlightenment. Enlightenment is
being aware of life’s value. When you feel stuck you can only see your
life from a limited perspective. When you widen your perspective with
meditation, you might find that difficulties you are having are really a
blessing in disguise.
Higher intelligence, stronger intuition, sharpened mind focus, sound
decision-making, overcoming fears and doubts, releasing mental stress, and
increasing both blood and chi flow
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a few of the many ways that meditation improves your life. When you
meditate on a high level, you also hone your ability to send and receive
spiritual, mental and universal messages. We live in a multi-dimensional,
spiritual world, in which everything is connected and means something.
Through meditation practice, you will receive messages in every energetic
transaction you are part of, whether it is with a human being, an
inanimate object or a work of art.
Your mind, body and spirit are connected. From the Taoist perspective,
this is the mind/body/spirit circuit. Following is some terminology that
describes energy points along this circuit that will be used in subsequent
articles.
1) The highest point at the very top of your head is called the Nine
Points. There are nine “points” in three rows of three that are
considered the nine channels to the heavens.
2) Below that, at the pituitary gland, is the Tower of Spirit.
3) In front of the Tower of Spirit, right between your eyebrows, is your
Third Eye.
4) Three inches deep behind your Third Eye is the Upper Dan Tien. Dan tien
is the Chinese word for chakra, or vital point.
5) Your heart is your Center Dan Tien. The Chinese translate this as
“true soul.”
6) Your belly button is the Origin of Life. Once the umbilical cord is
cut, you disconnect from your mother and begin your own original
life.
7) Three fingers below the belly button is the Dan Tien. It is the
powerhouse and the focus of most of your energy.
8) Below the Dan Tien, between the genitals and the anus, three inches
inward from the area of the perineum, is called the Vitality Point.
Now that you are familiar with your body’s energy circuit, next week’s
article introduces three types of meditation to help you achieve the life
you want.
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