Meditation

Meditation

Meditation is the natural way to live life to the full. It is natural, because meditation teaches people to breathe properly and to have the correct posture. Co-ordinating all the levels of the personality through the practice of mediation, one becomes more integrated in everything and anything.

Meditation becomes a way of life when a decision is taken to meditate twice daily in the morning and evening for twenty minutes. The morning meditation helps to give a calm and integrated direction to the day, while the evening meditation allows all the various experiences, emotions and frustrations to be integrated positively before sleeptime. In this way mediation creates a living rhythm of life-giving energy, actively linked to one’s breathing and body posture.

As is evident, the body takes on the posture of the prevalent emotion embedded within our psyche. Meditation corrects this by its constant emphasis of proper breathing and posture.

This is just a very simplified way of understanding meditation, but I hope that people become encouraged to take it up as a way of life, of becoming peace.

Tips for Meditation

Just as in any new activity we are learning, it takes time to develop the habits and strength needed to grow in our new endeavor. The same is true with the art of meditation.

With meditation, we are learning to still our body, shut out the world, and still the mind. These are new exercises, and it takes time to develop new habits.

Here are some tips for your meditation practice.

• Try to meditate at the same time each day. Early in the morning after you have rested is best before you begin the day.
• Find a spot and sit in the same place every time you meditate. Make this a sacred place, a place of prayer.
• Meditate when you are wide-awake and do not meditate on a full stomach as this may cause you to be sleepy.
• Set a spiritual atmosphere before meditation by reading from the scriptures, singing a spiritual song, saying a prayer or poem. Try to put yourself in the mood of devotion and longing for God.
• Sit with all humility knowing that it is God's will to bless you with divine experiences.
• Start with shorter sittings and build to a half hour, an hour, and eventually two or more hours.
• Leading an ethical life creates the conditions conducive to meditation.

The Year of Transition - The Year of Transformation

2012 is a life-changing event for those of us who chose the spiritual path of transformation. But it is also a year of transition. From the old vision of ourselves and the world and of who we perceive reality to the new vision of a reality which sees us taking full and unconditional responsibility for our lives and to share this unconditionally as service to others.

As a group we will be experiencing together all these different dynamics. I am sure that together we will be able to keep a very high level of consciousness so that the group becomes the space where people can safely move forward in their own transformational process. For those who will take this seriously, I will dedicate more time, but for me, it is also obvious that time is short and that the best possible use of it is part of the process, so I invite those who genuinely wish to engage in this path to come forward.

Many seminars are in the pipe line and these will be in line with the in-depth needs that this tremendous process entails. More information on these will be forthcoming very soon.

May you have a peaceful year and may all your efforts be blessed!

Godwin