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September 8, 2020
Why Meditation Work for Healing. 5 Ways.
The loop effect dissolves or disappears
Meditation reveals the truth about human conditions
Meditation shifts our attention
Meditation effects the body’s vibratory rate
Science Hints at Why Meditation Works
Scientific research shows, in study after study, that meditation aids in healing. From heart disease to stress, meditation works for healing. In fact, more than 3000 studies on different human conditions prove it out. The proof is irrefutable, as Jon Kabat-Zinn‘s ground breaking research into the subject has shown.
The question I posed to myself is, “Why does meditation work the way it does for healing?” so that we all can understand what is going. I thought that if I could get close to the kernel of truth, to discern the principal behind meditations’ efficacy, we will then have a principal that we can apply to nearly any troublesome situation be it health, wealth, better performance, or any other issue that comes along in our lives.
Meditation Interrupts the Momentum
I think that meditation works because it interrupts the momentum that gets build up within our biomechanical body/mind/personality in the direction of some problem. The problem begins for some reason. Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, a dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto, whatever?
While the cause within 3-dimensional reality can be hard to pinpoint, problems or conditions do occur, possibly involving multiple swirling causes. And when a condition starts it begins to loop. The problem gets bigger, causes the causes to amplify, and the problem feeds on itself. A loop begins to occur, kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.
The Loop Effect Dissolves or Disappears
I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect. Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on. We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank). We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds. The loop effect has begun.
We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution. The story begins to take on a life of its own. We tell those close to us about it. We speculate together. We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior. An argument might ensue. More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies. The loop is hard to escape.
Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum. Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition. If only for a moment. The condition goes into abeyance. If for only a moment.
Meditation Reveals the Truth About Human Conditions
In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the real life force that animates our human body/mind/personality, we allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal of attention from the human condition. Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it to Soul level. And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses. If only for a moment.
Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension. They have no existence in 5-Dimennsional Reality. My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul. My existence as Buddha Mind is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes. The condition is really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.
So far my approach to healing my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every three months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there, to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature, and to find, so far that my eye pressure numbers have not increased and that I am having no symptoms.
As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eyedrops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is to do the same thing. To interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed. Similar intervention as meditation. Although this hasn’t been the case with this condition I have, the unfortunate thing about medicinal treatment of some physical conditions is that the side effects are as bad or worse than the condition itself.
In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful. That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects. Each can amplify the effect of the other. Therefore, I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I also do every evening.
Meditation Shifts Our Attention
I can understand why certain conditions like hypertension, for example, respond to meditation. If you are hyper tense, meditation, becoming more peaceful, would seem an obvious helpful antidote. But is surprised me that cancer, arthritis, and even psoriasis respond positively.
I’ve concluded that one of the significant reasons that meditation works is that it consistent of withdrawing our attention, and this our human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence) to flow in and animate the moment. Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our body/mind/personality’s functioning, renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.
Deepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Center and teacher of the ancient (Hindu) wisdom teachings, says this more elegantly and succinctly, “There is only secret to healing and it is enlightenment” through meditation. “And realizing that you are the Universe manifesting through a human nervous system and becoming self-aware.” (Secret of Healing YouTube video, which includes a recitation of an ancient Hindu guided meditation or sutras).
Meditation Effects the Vibratory Rate of the Body
All things are made up of energy. The chair I am sitting on may look like it is solid, but science says that it is largely air, and some atomic particles that have been given shape by way of the maker’s intention, as Deepak Chopra has pointed out numerous times in his meditation. And all energy has a vibration. This vibration causes seemingly solid objects to be different from each other.
A tree has a different vibratory rate than a car. The cohesive vibratory rate of that tree makes it look, act and seem different than a four wheeled vehicle. Bodies have a vibratory rate which, unlike a tree, is more more in flux than a tree. Depending on a number of factors, body vibratory can change from moment depending on our perceptions our surroundings, our thoughts and feelings, and the condition of our body at a particular moment in time.
These vibratory rates are quite complicated. We may see something that is beautiful but triggers an unpleasant memory from our past. One part of our brain may be pleasantly stimulated at the same time another part of our brain experiences pain. This sets up a discordant set of vibrations that can jangle the system we call our body.
The same with stress. A little stress can be motivating and helpful. Too much stress over a long period of time can be quite damaging and cause disease (interesting the word is a combination of dis and ease, dis-ease, not at ease). This unease can set up a distressed vibratory rate in our heart or lungs, in turn causing inflammation, a burning, in or one more parts of the body.
Meditation has the opposite effect on the body. It calms the system down. It lowers the vibratory rate of various body parts. It lessens inflammation and, therefore , soothes the dis-ease, causing the body to resume its more normal vibratory rate. The natural peacefulness that we are born with returns to the physical form. The body has time to heal.
Conclusion: Meditation Has Many Amazing Benefits
In my FREE new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, I explore these issues in more depth and breadth, as well as offer some specific meditation techniques that can be useful to achieve a more peaceful state of mind and body. So important for dealing with the complicated, stressful and troublesome world we live today. And important for the body’s health, as well.
This is also what my other new book (Higher Consciousness Meditation available at Amazon Kindle) is about: a simple but effective 5 minute “sit down” meditation technique, as well as some new “mindfulness meditations” along with a few of the traditional tried and true ones. All for the purpose of Illumination. This is method is easier and requires much less time to get to that State of Awareness where the benefits of meditation can be realized.
Do these ideas resonate with you? How? Comment below, if you will.
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Why Meditation Work for Healing. 5 Ways.
The loop effect dissolves or disappears
Meditation reveals the truth about human conditions
Meditation shifts our attention
Meditation effects the body’s vibratory rate
Science Hints at Why Meditation Works
Scientific research shows, in study after study, that meditation aids in healing. From heart disease to stress, meditation works for healing. In fact, more than 3000 studies on different human conditions prove it out. The proof is irrefutable, as Jon Kabat-Zinn‘s ground breaking research into the subject has shown.
The question I posed to myself is, “Why does meditation work the way it does for healing?” so that we all can understand what is going. I thought that if I could get close to the kernel of truth, to discern the principal behind meditations’ efficacy, we will then have a principal that we can apply to nearly any troublesome situation be it health, wealth, better performance, or any other issue that comes along in our lives.
Meditation Interrupts the Momentum
I think that meditation works because it interrupts the momentum that gets build up within our biomechanical body/mind/personality in the direction of some problem. The problem begins for some reason. Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, a dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto, whatever?
While the cause within 3-dimensional reality can be hard to pinpoint, problems or conditions do occur, possibly involving multiple swirling causes. And when a condition starts it begins to loop. The problem gets bigger, causes the causes to amplify, and the problem feeds on itself. A loop begins to occur, kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.
The Loop Effect Dissolves or Disappears
I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect. Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on. We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank). We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds. The loop effect has begun.
We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution. The story begins to take on a life of its own. We tell those close to us about it. We speculate together. We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior. An argument might ensue. More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies. The loop is hard to escape.
Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum. Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition. If only for a moment. The condition goes into abeyance. If for only a moment.
Meditation Reveals the Truth About Human Conditions
In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the real life force that animates our human body/mind/personality, we allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal of attention from the human condition. Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it to Soul level. And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses. If only for a moment.
Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension. They have no existence in 5-Dimennsional Reality. My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul. My existence as Buddha Mind is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes. The condition is really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.
So far my approach to healing my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every three months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there, to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature, and to find, so far that my eye pressure numbers have not increased and that I am having no symptoms.
As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eyedrops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is to do the same thing. To interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed. Similar intervention as meditation. Although this hasn’t been the case with this condition I have, the unfortunate thing about medicinal treatment of some physical conditions is that the side effects are as bad or worse than the condition itself.
In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful. That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects. Each can amplify the effect of the other. Therefore, I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I also do every evening.
Meditation Shifts Our Attention
I can understand why certain conditions like hypertension, for example, respond to meditation. If you are hyper tense, meditation, becoming more peaceful, would seem an obvious helpful antidote. But is surprised me that cancer, arthritis, and even psoriasis respond positively.
I’ve concluded that one of the significant reasons that meditation works is that it consistent of withdrawing our attention, and this our human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence) to flow in and animate the moment. Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our body/mind/personality’s functioning, renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.
Deepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Center and teacher of the ancient (Hindu) wisdom teachings, says this more elegantly and succinctly, “There is only secret to healing and it is enlightenment” through meditation. “And realizing that you are the Universe manifesting through a human nervous system and becoming self-aware.” (Secret of Healing YouTube video, which includes a recitation of an ancient Hindu guided meditation or sutras).
Meditation Effects the Vibratory Rate of the Body
All things are made up of energy. The chair I am sitting on may look like it is solid, but science says that it is largely air, and some atomic particles that have been given shape by way of the maker’s intention, as Deepak Chopra has pointed out numerous times in his meditation. And all energy has a vibration. This vibration causes seemingly solid objects to be different from each other.
A tree has a different vibratory rate than a car. The cohesive vibratory rate of that tree makes it look, act and seem different than a four wheeled vehicle. Bodies have a vibratory rate which, unlike a tree, is more more in flux than a tree. Depending on a number of factors, body vibratory can change from moment depending on our perceptions our surroundings, our thoughts and feelings, and the condition of our body at a particular moment in time.
These vibratory rates are quite complicated. We may see something that is beautiful but triggers an unpleasant memory from our past. One part of our brain may be pleasantly stimulated at the same time another part of our brain experiences pain. This sets up a discordant set of vibrations that can jangle the system we call our body.
The same with stress. A little stress can be motivating and helpful. Too much stress over a long period of time can be quite damaging and cause disease (interesting the word is a combination of dis and ease, dis-ease, not at ease). This unease can set up a distressed vibratory rate in our heart or lungs, in turn causing inflammation, a burning, in or one more parts of the body.
Meditation has the opposite effect on the body. It calms the system down. It lowers the vibratory rate of various body parts. It lessens inflammation and, therefore , soothes the dis-ease, causing the body to resume its more normal vibratory rate. The natural peacefulness that we are born with returns to the physical form. The body has time to heal.
Conclusion: Meditation Has Many Amazing Benefits
In my FREE new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, I explore these issues in more depth and breadth, as well as offer some specific meditation techniques that can be useful to achieve a more peaceful state of mind and body. So important for dealing with the complicated, stressful and troublesome world we live today. And important for the body’s health, as well.
This is also what my other new book (Higher Consciousness Meditation available at Amazon Kindle) is about: a simple but effective 5 minute “sit down” meditation technique, as well as some new “mindfulness meditations” along with a few of the traditional tried and true ones. All for the purpose of Illumination. This is method is easier and requires much less time to get to that State of Awareness where the benefits of meditation can be realized.
Do these ideas resonate with you? How? Comment below, if you will.
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September 7, 2020
Meditation FAQs
What are the health benefits of meditation?
The health benefits of meditation are many: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Meditation makes it possible to quieten the mind so that the body’s natural tendency toward a healthy and well functioning “system” can kick in and operate at a more optimum level
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What does scientific research say about the benefits?
There are more than 3000 studies that have been done on the benefits of meditation. The research indicates that meditation can, for example, decrease heart disease, dementia, depression and spiritual anxiety. Much of the benefit comes from lessening stress and, therefore, inflammation in the body–one of the major contributors to dis-ease.
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Why meditate?
Here are some significant reasons to meditate: To reduce stress and loneliness, to invite “in” health and healing benefits, to bypass the mind’s constant chatter, to make direct contact with the Divine, and to welcome our Soul’s participation in our lives
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Why does meditation work the way it does?
In my opinion, meditation works for these reasons. 1. Meditation interrupts the momentum of a disease or disorder. 2. Meditation reveals the truth about human conditions–that they are based in our stressful lifestyles. 3. Meditation shifts our attention from our human, ego center to our Spiritual or Soul Center. 4. Meditation raises our body’s vibratory rate which begins to dissolve the basis for undesirable conditions.
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Is there a good FREE book on this subject?
Yes. The Amazing Benefits of Meditation by Blair Abee at Amazon Kindle or at his website at HiCMeditation.com reviews the scientific research in detail, covers the types of meditation that can be used, delves deeply into why meditation works and discusses how to use meditation to amplify the benefits of traditional medicine to accelerate healing..
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September 1, 2020
Feeling Troubled? Meditation Can Help. 5 Suggestions
Here are the 5 suggestions:
Breathe into the feeling, mindfully
Learn Sacred Breathing
Sit with it and face it
Do some healing work on it
Get with wise people to talk about it
Are you feeling it? These are turbulent times. It’s no wonder we are feeling troubled. Meditation can help—the subject of this post. Not surprising, from a world war level pandemic, to a country coming apart at the seams, to millions losing, perhaps permanently, their jobs, to having to stay home (or choose to go out at your own peril.) For those of in the San Francisco area, fires are raging everywhere caused by a rare, intense lightning storm with no rain. (Won’t rain until December here.)
Trouble like this is frightening. It goes to the core of our human mind biology. To our reptilian brain intent on survival. And stimulates fear, adrenaline, dread, confusion, and sleepless nights. Unless we can figure out how to deal with it.
Mindful breathing
Mindfulness meditation is one way to approach the problem that bypasses the overstimulated brain. In my new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, I chronicle a number of ways that meditation can help anyone who is having physical, mental, emotional or spiritual issues. Including the unusually perilous seas we seem to be experiencing.
Mindfulness can be as simple as taking a deep breath or two and saying a soothing phrase to ourselves. “Peace be Still” is a good one—it has a tinge of assertiveness. And then pause a moment to let that marinate in our consciousness. Sometimes that’s all it takes to beging to calm down a bit and get some perspective. And, better yet, to let Spirit flow into the moment to lighten the load. Sometimes I have to breathe and say this to myself several times. Breathe. Peace be Still.
In a way, it’s a blessing to know this simple trick for soothing the mind because it can be used at any time for any thing that is troubling. Having this tool at our disposal can interrupt the momentum of the mind and the moment that seems to be taking us in the wrong direction. Saying “Peace be Still” and breathing can put us right into that proverbial “Moment of Now” that Ekhart Tolle talks about. Or that the book Be Here Now that Ram Dass wrote discusses in-depth.
Sacred Breathing
I developed a technique that I called “Sacred Breathing” several years ago when I had a traumatic experience that seemed very threatening at the time. Lynne and I had moved to San Diego for me to take a major promotion. And for us to get back to the West Coast after being in my home State of North Carolina for 20 years, following our move there after the big Bay Area earthquake of ’89. Unfortunately, my boss turned out to be a sociopath (a person who has no moral compass and will lie and cheat at anytime without impunity).
After 6 months I had to report the problem to people several levels up the organizational ladder. “Whistle blowing” to use familiar language from recent events. An investigation was done and she was reassigned. I was fired for being a “troublemaker”. And thus ended my career, for all intents and purposes, in my profession of many years where I seemed destined to be a senior official, perhaps a state director of a my program, perhaps here in California.
I was devastated. I identified very closely with my job and my ego was a very tied up with it. In fact, I “was my job”, taking a lot of satisfaction and pride in my accomplishments. What was I going to do? (The same question many people are asking themselves right now). I didn’t know. It was discombobulating and frightening.
This caused me to dive deep into my meditation practice for solace. And I “discovered” Sacred Breathing. I had never heard those words before, but they made sense one evening as I was sitting quietly and writing for therapy. “Sacred Breathing” were the words that popped into my consciousness. I had to find out what that was.
And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist. In Sacred Breathing (see my blog post I did something similar to traditional mindfulness by first taking a deep breath or two, and then saying to myself, “Illuminate. Elevate. Radiate”. Similar to “Peace be Still” but with a key difference. By shifting my mind to, not a place of Peace but a place of Illumination, the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”. This would, inevitably “Elevate” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness. After a time or two I would breathe myself in to that Place from which I was able, even, to “Radiate” that State of Mind out into my immediate surroundings.
Thus began the reinvention of myself. After 100,000 words of therapeutic writing I began to realize that I had a talent with words. And with expressing myself about the mystical journey I was on. Therapeutic, free form writing can be equally helpful, by the way.
Sit With It and Face It
This is what I had to do to reinvent myself. Sit with the multiple layers of “trouble” I was experiencing. My wife had taught be to “feel my feelings” over the years. I was not always a cooperative student, sometimes preferring to push my feelings out of the way so that I didn’t have to feel them. So, I was prepared, at least to a degree, to practice feeling my feelings about this tragedy.
I learned many things by, again, using meditation to in yet a different way that I ever had. Sitdown meditation I was familiar with, the practice of sitting cross legged or in a chair, for 5-15 minutes, at the end of my yoga workout. It was aimed at mind training, the type of meditation I had learned, based on observing my thoughts until my mind ran out of words and I would just sit in silence. I got good at this method during the time of my reinvention.
The deeper I dove into my practice me more I realized that I was more interested in exploring the experience of Illumination than I was a quiet mind. That, in fact, getting to a quiet mind led to experiencing Illumination most naturally. And that led me to develop my new meditation technique which I called Higher Consciousness Meditation that has as its goal, as its intention, the experiencing of Illumination without having to go through many years of taming the wild horse that my mind seemed to resemble. Wild and unruly. The pursuit of this State of Mind is the subject of my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation.
Do Some Healing Work on It
Experiencing Higher Consciousness, which I came to realize was the same as Soul contact, was, by its very nature, healing. First and foremost, it quietened the insistent chattering of my “monkey mind” as some Buddhist call it. I found I could take a Sacred Breath or two, say “Peace be Still”, and sit for a while in Illumination. Far superior to a just a quiet mind, which was nice, but not the same as feeling “lit up” by Spirit.
I began to heal. I began to be able to take a breath and I had a Higher Self and a human self, where I had only identified totally with my human self before. I began to think clearly about my situation. In fact, I began to be able to just sit with it and allow it to be, without devolving into anxiety and a string of worry thoughts.
Writing helped a lot. After a while the words began to just flow through my fingers and onto the computer screen. Words that sometimes surprised me by their clarity. Words that began to dissolve the knot in my stomach. Words that had a soothing and healing quality. Words that became many words. And many words that became the book series that I am writing.
Get With Wise People to Talk About It
If you know any wise ones, and almost everyone does, get together with them and have a chat. Say it the way it is. Verbalize the texture of it. Have them ask you questions. Or see a therapist who’s compassionate. Find someone to talk with about it.
And use, as an outline for discussion, the other four parts of this list of things to do. Do them all. Dig deep. Do the work. Yourself is your best asset.
Sometimes the trouble, as John Lewis used to say is “good trouble”. Trouble you need to be into, like non-violent protesting. Sometimes not. Sometimes the trouble is within and sometimes without. Well, actually, the trouble always has its source within. The within causes the within troubles and also the without troubles. It’s just harder to see that the without always starts somewhere within.
This is a hard truth because it sometimes looks like you had nothing to do with what is troubling you. To see the truth of this you have to shift your consciousness from good/bad, right/wrong to asking “What is my part in this?” Or even, what vibration within has caused the attraction of that which is without.
The beauty of that question, though, is that if you can get at what the source is you can change the vibratory rate at which you have been vibrating and attract something else. Perhaps something else more desirable and then you can really take control of your life. Because you will have exercised that muscle that you can employ the next time, and the next, and the next.
You will be able to step outside of your internal and external circumstances and be the source of your life and your life’s experiences. Try it. And try again. You may not get it the first time. But the 5th or the 10th time the use of the tool will “click” and you will have the first of a repeatable ability.
Tool Maker
I like to think of myself as a toolmaker. I hope you can benefit from at least one or more of these tools. They can be the paddle that you need to negotiate the river that eventually leads you to the Pool of Peace. Such a lovely place. And suffering ends, if only for a moment.
Take advantage of the many tools I have created for myself and to share with you. My website at www.HiCMeditation.com has books, sample chapters, poems and more. My Facebook page at Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee, where the Daily Vibe is offered. And Amazon Kindle where my book series is located, beginning with the first one, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, which you can get for $.99 at Kindle or free on the website.
If you try something out and have questions, put a comment in below. If you try something out and have some success do the same—comment below. Others will be interested in your story. I certainly will be.
Conclusion
Trouble causes stress. Stress can cause a lot of problems. Meditation, both sitdown and mindfulness meditation can help relieve the stress bring us down of that adrenaline high that can be so addictive.
Which one of he methods strikes you as being the most useful? Comment below if you will and leave any questions.
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Feeling Troubled? Meditation Can Help. 5 Suggestions
Here are the 5 suggestions:
Breathe into the feeling, mindfully
Learn Sacred Breathing
Sit with it and face it
Do some healing work on it
Get with wise people to talk about it
Are you feeling it? These are turbulent times. It’s no wonder we are feeling troubled. Meditation can help—the subject of this post. Not surprising, from a world war level pandemic, to a country coming apart at the seams, to millions losing, perhaps permanently, their jobs, to having to stay home (or choose to go out at your own peril.) For those of in the San Francisco area, fires are raging everywhere caused by a rare, intense lightning storm with no rain. (Won’t rain until December here.)
Trouble like this is frightening. It goes to the core of our human mind biology. To our reptilian brain intent on survival. And stimulates fear, adrenaline, dread, confusion, and sleepless nights. Unless we can figure out how to deal with it.
Mindful breathing
Mindfulness meditation is one way to approach the problem that bypasses the overstimulated brain. In my new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, I chronicle a number of ways that meditation can help anyone who is having physical, mental, emotional or spiritual issues. Including the unusually perilous seas we seem to be experiencing.
Mindfulness can be as simple as taking a deep breath or two and saying a soothing phrase to ourselves. “Peace be Still” is a good one—it has a tinge of assertiveness. And then pause a moment to let that marinate in our consciousness. Sometimes that’s all it takes to beging to calm down a bit and get some perspective. And, better yet, to let Spirit flow into the moment to lighten the load. Sometimes I have to breathe and say this to myself several times. Breathe. Peace be Still.
In a way, it’s a blessing to know this simple trick for soothing the mind because it can be used at any time for any thing that is troubling. Having this tool at our disposal can interrupt the momentum of the mind and the moment that seems to be taking us in the wrong direction. Saying “Peace be Still” and breathing can put us right into that proverbial “Moment of Now” that Ekhart Tolle talks about. Or that the book Be Here Now that Ram Dass wrote discusses in-depth.
Sacred Breathing
I developed a technique that I called “Sacred Breathing” several years ago when I had a traumatic experience that seemed very threatening at the time. Lynne and I had moved to San Diego for me to take a major promotion. And for us to get back to the West Coast after being in my home State of North Carolina for 20 years, following our move there after the big Bay Area earthquake of ’89. Unfortunately, my boss turned out to be a sociopath (a person who has no moral compass and will lie and cheat at anytime without impunity).
After 6 months I had to report the problem to people several levels up the organizational ladder. “Whistle blowing” to use familiar language from recent events. An investigation was done and she was reassigned. I was fired for being a “troublemaker”. And thus ended my career, for all intents and purposes, in my profession of many years where I seemed destined to be a senior official, perhaps a state director of a my program, perhaps here in California.
I was devastated. I identified very closely with my job and my ego was a very tied up with it. In fact, I “was my job”, taking a lot of satisfaction and pride in my accomplishments. What was I going to do? (The same question many people are asking themselves right now). I didn’t know. It was discombobulating and frightening.
This caused me to dive deep into my meditation practice for solace. And I “discovered” Sacred Breathing. I had never heard those words before, but they made sense one evening as I was sitting quietly and writing for therapy. “Sacred Breathing” were the words that popped into my consciousness. I had to find out what that was.
And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist. In Sacred Breathing (see my blog post I did something similar to traditional mindfulness by first taking a deep breath or two, and then saying to myself, “Illuminate. Elevate. Radiate”. Similar to “Peace be Still” but with a key difference. By shifting my mind to, not a place of Peace but a place of Illumination, the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”. This would, inevitably “Elevate” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness. After a time or two I would breathe myself in to that Place from which I was able, even, to “Radiate” that State of Mind out into my immediate surroundings.
Thus began the reinvention of myself. After 100,000 words of therapeutic writing I began to realize that I had a talent with words. And with expressing myself about the mystical journey I was on. Therapeutic, free form writing can be equally helpful, by the way.
Sit With It and Face It
This is what I had to do to reinvent myself. Sit with the multiple layers of “trouble” I was experiencing. My wife had taught be to “feel my feelings” over the years. I was not always a cooperative student, sometimes preferring to push my feelings out of the way so that I didn’t have to feel them. So, I was prepared, at least to a degree, to practice feeling my feelings about this tragedy.
I learned many things by, again, using meditation to in yet a different way that I ever had. Sitdown meditation I was familiar with, the practice of sitting cross legged or in a chair, for 5-15 minutes, at the end of my yoga workout. It was aimed at mind training, the type of meditation I had learned, based on observing my thoughts until my mind ran out of words and I would just sit in silence. I got good at this method during the time of my reinvention.
The deeper I dove into my practice me more I realized that I was more interested in exploring the experience of Illumination than I was a quiet mind. That, in fact, getting to a quiet mind led to experiencing Illumination most naturally. And that led me to develop my new meditation technique which I called Higher Consciousness Meditation that has as its goal, as its intention, the experiencing of Illumination without having to go through many years of taming the wild horse that my mind seemed to resemble. Wild and unruly. The pursuit of this State of Mind is the subject of my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation.
Do Some Healing Work on It
Experiencing Higher Consciousness, which I came to realize was the same as Soul contact, was, by its very nature, healing. First and foremost, it quietened the insistent chattering of my “monkey mind” as some Buddhist call it. I found I could take a Sacred Breath or two, say “Peace be Still”, and sit for a while in Illumination. Far superior to a just a quiet mind, which was nice, but not the same as feeling “lit up” by Spirit.
I began to heal. I began to be able to take a breath and I had a Higher Self and a human self, where I had only identified totally with my human self before. I began to think clearly about my situation. In fact, I began to be able to just sit with it and allow it to be, without devolving into anxiety and a string of worry thoughts.
Writing helped a lot. After a while the words began to just flow through my fingers and onto the computer screen. Words that sometimes surprised me by their clarity. Words that began to dissolve the knot in my stomach. Words that had a soothing and healing quality. Words that became many words. And many words that became the book series that I am writing.
Get With Wise People to Talk About It
If you know any wise ones, and almost everyone does, get together with them and have a chat. Say it the way it is. Verbalize the texture of it. Have them ask you questions. Or see a therapist who’s compassionate. Find someone to talk with about it.
And use, as an outline for discussion, the other four parts of this list of things to do. Do them all. Dig deep. Do the work. Yourself is your best asset.
Sometimes the trouble, as John Lewis used to say is “good trouble”. Trouble you need to be into, like non-violent protesting. Sometimes not. Sometimes the trouble is within and sometimes without. Well, actually, the trouble always has its source within. The within causes the within troubles and also the without troubles. It’s just harder to see that the without always starts somewhere within.
This is a hard truth because it sometimes looks like you had nothing to do with what is troubling you. To see the truth of this you have to shift your consciousness from good/bad, right/wrong to asking “What is my part in this?” Or even, what vibration within has caused the attraction of that which is without.
The beauty of that question, though, is that if you can get at what the source is you can change the vibratory rate at which you have been vibrating and attract something else. Perhaps something else more desirable and then you can really take control of your life. Because you will have exercised that muscle that you can employ the next time, and the next, and the next.
You will be able to step outside of your internal and external circumstances and be the source of your life and your life’s experiences. Try it. And try again. You may not get it the first time. But the 5th or the 10th time the use of the tool will “click” and you will have the first of a repeatable ability.
Tool Maker
I like to think of myself as a toolmaker. I hope you can benefit from at least one or more of these tools. They can be the paddle that you need to negotiate the river that eventually leads you to the Pool of Peace. Such a lovely place. And suffering ends, if only for a moment.
Take advantage of the many tools I have created for myself and to share with you. My website at www.HiCMeditation.com has books, sample chapters, poems and more. My Facebook page at Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee, where the Daily Vibe is offered. And Amazon Kindle where my book series is located, beginning with the first one, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, which you can get for $.99 at Kindle or free on the website.
If you try something out and have questions, put a comment in below. If you try something out and have some success do the same—comment below. Others will be interested in your story. I certainly will be.
Conclusion
Trouble causes stress. Stress can cause a lot of problems. Meditation, both sitdown and mindfulness meditation can help relieve the stress bring us down of that adrenaline high that can be so addictive.
Which one of he methods strikes you as being the most useful? Comment below if you will and leave any questions.
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August 25, 2020
Fixing Our Racial (and Human) Problem Begins with Me
There are a number of things each us can do to fix our racial problem. Here are a few:
See our Oneness rather than our separateness.
Greet each other with “Peace be with you”
Offer heartfelt blessings and prayers for the elevation of consciousness
Recognize our World Citizenship, and the need to care for our precious Gaia
Today Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I was moved to write this blog.
Racial bigotry, which I grew up with in the American South, was many centuries in the making. It surrounded me, from the “Whites Only” signs to the Klan fever that would bubble up from time to time. It’s important to understand, moreover, that racism is a symptom of a bigger issue that also manifests as religious bigotry, gender bigotry, political bigotry, national bigotry, and species bigotry. It stems from the human tendency to see others as not part of ourselves but as separate and apart and therefore, somehow, inferior, and not worth of our love and respect.
Personal Wakeup Call
My wakeup call came in the Spring of 1968. A buzz began in my high school, which had only 2 years earlier been fully integrated. As I stood on the bank above the library at lunch time, a surge of black students, some fellow athletes, headed downtown to protest the assassination of Martin Luther King. The large plate glass window of the library shattered, and a cheer went up.
“What the hell is going on?” I remember thinking. I found out soon enough when the news began to spread. Several days later, at a meeting I had helped organize as the president of the student council, the grievances were clearly and forcefully expressed. I was shocked. My mind was, to use a term from the time, “blown”. I grew up that day.
The dictionary definition of the word bigotry is “intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself”, and even more penetratingly, “obstinate or intolerant devotion to one’s own opinions and prejudices: the state of mind of bigotry”.
If we can see our state of mind, our ego addiction, our unconscious (in many cases) prejudices as the problem, then we have an opening for change. For transformation. The “problem” is huge because the “problem” is, individually and collectively, us.
Where the Problem Comes From
This problem stems from a lack of understanding of who and what we really are. We are not merely suffering beings driving an amazingly complicated biomechanical vehicle around on a perfectly habitable planet. We are also Souls who don’t recognize ourselves and each other. However, nobody teaches us otherwise. Because nobody knows. Except for a few wise ones. A few of our Master Teachers knew and tried to teach us. To no avail.
Homo sapiens have hit a wall. And we have to evolve. All of us. Some faster, some slower, but “homo spiritus” we have to become. We have to wake up. There is nowhere else that ego and personality can take us except over a cliff. Let us not be lemmings of the two-legged kind. Let us not go the way of the dinosaurs, and at our own hands.
The Solution
The solution is a change in state of mind. And it begins with me. With you. With us. The realization that “me” is also “we”. That we are all in this mess together. Recent events have made this so clear. The George Foster incident has shown that “we” all have a racial problem. Some are the perpetrators (white privilege) and some are the victims (police brutality against African Americans). All are affected.
“How?” The how begins with personal inquiry and doing the healing work that is needed. The willingness to recognize what our Master Teachers were trying to tell us–“the Kingdom of God (the All) lies within”. Within each of us. Waiting patiently for the human mind to awaken.
There are tools available for such personal healing: for lifestyle improvement, for thought form restructuring, for emotional relief—of which we should take advantage. My favorite tool, however, is meditation; sit-down meditation and mindfulness meditation can address healing in all areas, simultaneously.
(Grab a copy of my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation at Amazon Kindle to get my new, innovative sit-down meditation technique and new mindfulness exercises, as well.)
Fundamentally, meditation helps us to get quiet down enough to allow our innate physical, mental, and emotional healing mechanisms to kick in. Bringing healing and illumination to our whole system. Meditation is a great tool to deal with “corona jitters”. (See how and why meditation works in my FREE new book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation available here on this site.)
Things We Can Do
Here are a few other things that we can do to begin to right the wrongs that plague us:
See our Oneness rather than our separateness. A quiet mind can see the Spirit that resides in another. Can see the suffering of others and want to do something to help.
Greet each other with “Peace be with you”, “Namaste” (the Spirit within me salutes the Spirit within you), or “Gooday mate”.
Offer heartfelt blessings and prayers for the elevation of consciousness within our ourselves, our neighbors, our fellow citizen brothers and sisters, our leadership, our “enemies” and those who vex us, as well as our planet.
Recognize our World Citizenship, and the need to care for our precious Gaia and all of her children.
Stop making war on each other, for goodness sake.
Join and participate in each other’s righteous organizational efforts. Visit each other’s places of worship. Support and financially contribute to causes that promote health and healing.
Vote for candidates of whatever party who promote unity and decry division.
Support a child in need. Volunteer in a school. Coach a sports team. Become a surrogate parent or grandparent.
Insist on a proper education, food, and proper medical care for all citizens. Shift our resource allocation to the well-being of people, not the well-being of the system and those who control the levers of power.
If you are feeling sad about all of our problems, meditation helps, pure and simple.Our survival and sanity and growth depend on it. One Being at a time.
Leave your comment below. What do you think? Will some of these ideas help?
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Fixing Our Racial (and Human) Problem Begins with Me
There are a number of things each us can do to fix our racial problem. Here are a few:
See our Oneness rather than our separateness.
Greet each other with “Peace be with you”
Offer heartfelt blessings and prayers for the elevation of consciousness
Recognize our World Citizenship, and the need to care for our precious Gaia
Today Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I was moved to write this blog.
Racial bigotry, which I grew up with in the American South, was many centuries in the making. It surrounded me, from the “Whites Only” signs to the Klan fever that would bubble up from time to time. It’s important to understand, moreover, that racism is a symptom of a bigger issue that also manifests as religious bigotry, gender bigotry, political bigotry, national bigotry, and species bigotry. It stems from the human tendency to see others as not part of ourselves but as separate and apart and therefore, somehow, inferior, and not worth of our love and respect.
Personal Wakeup Call
My wakeup call came in the Spring of 1968. A buzz began in my high school, which had only 2 years earlier been fully integrated. As I stood on the bank above the library at lunch time, a surge of black students, some fellow athletes, headed downtown to protest the assassination of Martin Luther King. The large plate glass window of the library shattered, and a cheer went up.
“What the hell is going on?” I remember thinking. I found out soon enough when the news began to spread. Several days later, at a meeting I had helped organize as the president of the student council, the grievances were clearly and forcefully expressed. I was shocked. My mind was, to use a term from the time, “blown”. I grew up that day.
The dictionary definition of the word bigotry is “intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself”, and even more penetratingly, “obstinate or intolerant devotion to one’s own opinions and prejudices: the state of mind of bigotry”.
If we can see our state of mind, our ego addiction, our unconscious (in many cases) prejudices as the problem, then we have an opening for change. For transformation. The “problem” is huge because the “problem” is, individually and collectively, us.
Where the Problem Comes From
This problem stems from a lack of understanding of who and what we really are. We are not merely suffering beings driving an amazingly complicated biomechanical vehicle around on a perfectly habitable planet. We are also Souls who don’t recognize ourselves and each other. However, nobody teaches us otherwise. Because nobody knows. Except for a few wise ones. A few of our Master Teachers knew and tried to teach us. To no avail.
Homo sapiens have hit a wall. And we have to evolve. All of us. Some faster, some slower, but “homo spiritus” we have to become. We have to wake up. There is nowhere else that ego and personality can take us except over a cliff. Let us not be lemmings of the two-legged kind. Let us not go the way of the dinosaurs, and at our own hands.
The Solution
The solution is a change in state of mind. And it begins with me. With you. With us. The realization that “me” is also “we”. That we are all in this mess together. Recent events have made this so clear. The George Foster incident has shown that “we” all have a racial problem. Some are the perpetrators (white privilege) and some are the victims (police brutality against African Americans). All are affected.
“How?” The how begins with personal inquiry and doing the healing work that is needed. The willingness to recognize what our Master Teachers were trying to tell us–“the Kingdom of God (the All) lies within”. Within each of us. Waiting patiently for the human mind to awaken.
There are tools available for such personal healing: for lifestyle improvement, for thought form restructuring, for emotional relief—of which we should take advantage. My favorite tool, however, is meditation; sit-down meditation and mindfulness meditation can address healing in all areas, simultaneously.
(Grab a copy of my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation at Amazon Kindle to get my new, innovative sit-down meditation technique and new mindfulness exercises, as well.)
Fundamentally, meditation helps us to get quiet down enough to allow our innate physical, mental, and emotional healing mechanisms to kick in. Bringing healing and illumination to our whole system. Meditation is a great tool to deal with “corona jitters”. (See how and why meditation works in my FREE new book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation available here on this site.)
Things We Can Do
Here are a few other things that we can do to begin to right the wrongs that plague us:
See our Oneness rather than our separateness. A quiet mind can see the Spirit that resides in another. Can see the suffering of others and want to do something to help.
Greet each other with “Peace be with you”, “Namaste” (the Spirit within me salutes the Spirit within you), or “Gooday mate”.
Offer heartfelt blessings and prayers for the elevation of consciousness within our ourselves, our neighbors, our fellow citizen brothers and sisters, our leadership, our “enemies” and those who vex us, as well as our planet.
Recognize our World Citizenship, and the need to care for our precious Gaia and all of her children.
Stop making war on each other, for goodness sake.
Join and participate in each other’s righteous organizational efforts. Visit each other’s places of worship. Support and financially contribute to causes that promote health and healing.
Vote for candidates of whatever party who promote unity and decry division.
Support a child in need. Volunteer in a school. Coach a sports team. Become a surrogate parent or grandparent.
Insist on a proper education, food, and proper medical care for all citizens. Shift our resource allocation to the well-being of people, not the well-being of the system and those who control the levers of power.
If you are feeling sad about all of our problems, meditation helps, pure and simple.Our survival and sanity and growth depend on it. One Being at a time.
Leave your comment below. What do you think? Will some of these ideas help?
Like this post? Subscribe below to our weekly blog. Also “follow” my new feature, the Daily Vibe, on my Facebook Page that offers an uplifting thought to bring a smile to your face and a bounce in your step each day. Go to Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee at FB.
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August 18, 2020
Feeling Sad? Meditation Helps. 3 Steps.
1. Allow yourself to feel sad
2. Meditate on your sadness
3. Allow Spirit to flow In for healing
Nearly 30% of American adults report feeling profoundly sad in a recent survey. And no wonder. We are suffering with the challenges we are facing: the corona virus, making a living, our kid and their safety as we begin to think about whether to keep them home or not. These things on top of our more common concerns: caring for ourselves and family, making our relationships at home and at ou jobs work, and whatever is going on in our world. The key relief from feeling sad? Meditation helps a bunch.
A Personal Story
I was prompted to write this blog post because of the following story about my own life. I was feeling sad. Meditation helps.
This morning I felt heavy when I got up. Did some tossing and turning last night. Lynne was snoring and I was sleeping lightly. I fed our herd of two cats and a dog. I started my morning wake up routine. And I started to weep. A three Kleenex weep. It happened as I began to sing “Morning Has Broken” with Cat Stevens on the Amazon Echo. I had asked Alexa to “loop it”.
I sat down to do my morning meditation, and the tears came. I began to recognize the source of my sadness. I had the following series of thoughts.
1. Allow Yourself to Feel Sad (or Stressed or Lonely)
I was sad about the suffering I have been witnessing, from the coronavirus to Trump meltdown to people being scared as I venture out to time to Black People insisting on their long denied rights.
A profound sadness. And compassion for all who suffer. And especially those who are suffering and dying from not being able to breathe. A tortuous death. Without family around. Only with the suffering body and the suffering mind. Making decisions in the end about the “reasons”. “God has abandoned me”, “I’m going to hell”, to “I’m letting my loved ones down”, etc. (Each will have his/her own particular take on things).
I’m think these last thoughts partially because of our healer friend George who has been working with us for over 30 years. He does past life work, roots out the “story” behind the “glitch” that might be going on in present time in order to do the healing work needed to dissolve he “glitch”. And he has told stories, from his dousing work, of past lives in which we, or people we know in this lifetime that we knew back then, of decisions made in the final throes of death. Sometimes blaming God for the horrible circumstances.
2. Meditate on Your Sadness
I began my meditation routine, feeling sad. Meditation helps I said to myself. I began to breathe “into” the feeling. 5 Sacred Breaths. (This is a mindfulness meditation technique I developed several years ago.) And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist. After taking a deep breath or two, I would begin saying to myself, “Illuminate. Elevate. Radiate”.
5 times. It shifted my mind into a place of Illumination–the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”. This “Elevated” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness And then I began to follow my sit-down Higher Consciousness Meditation process. And I began to relax. Feeling sad began to dissipate. Meditation was working (My new book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation which you can get free, shows that scientific research on sadness and depression improvement, one of the particular benefits of meditation. As well as how and why meditation works. Check out a sample chapter, on the subject of Stress, to see another good example).
3. Allow Spirit to Flow In for Healing
My Higher Consciousness, my Soul, spoke to me as It often does in these moments of quiet. “Be comforted, my Child, this is a heart opening experience and you can only do what you can do.” Which I have come to know as the only healing work I can do, and that is to become aware of the suffering and settle into a State where “I” gets out of the way and Spirit flows. To do the work It intends to do given that “we” have engaged. To watch it, however, can be overwhelming and simply profoundly sad. Ant then rest into Illumination, where the real healing work is done.
It hurts to hurt. It’s my good fortune to be able to observe from a place of Illumination, can work from home, and not be worried about having to go to a restaurant and serve food to feed my kids. The healing work is what I can do– be quiet and let Source take over. And write about it.
The sadness began to subside. Check out my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation for some new sitdown and mindfulness meditation techniques. Use this link to purchase it at Amazon Kindle.
I Went to Work
Then I was inspired. I sent my daughter-in-law Christina a couple of new Daily Vibes to insert into the string of about 30 she has been working on. (Have you checked out the Daily Vibe? If you haven’t, go over to my “Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee” Facebook Page.) And check it out. And Like it so you get it every day. Here are a couple of the most recent ones.
She’s done an amazing job with my germ of an idea or words on a solid background. The best three were in honor of John Lewis, civil rights activist and member of the House of Representatives.
“Child of God. Master Teacher” to be put on an appropriate background. He had inspired me by with his Soul qualities, his compassion, his dedication. “Blessed are they whose hearts are open (in smaller letters–In these times)” along with “Stay strong. These days will pass.” He was a great guy and very Aware.
Conclusion
Nothing wrong with feeling sad. Or feeling any feeling. We are beings with feelings. Often feelings that challenge us to just “be” with them and let them be with us. By being with them, and breathing into them, and saying, as we might, “Peace be still” we can allow whatever treasure of realization might come floating to the surface for healing and solace. (Go to a similar post on Stress Relief with this link.)
If you are feeling sad, meditation helps, pure and simple. Leave your comment below. What do you think? Will some of these ideas help?
Like this post? Subscribe below to our weekly blog. Also “follow” my new feature, the Daily Vibe, on my Facebook Page that offers an uplifting thought to bring a smile to your face and a bounce in your step each day. Go to Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee at FB.
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Feeling Sad? Meditation Helps. 3 Steps.
1. Allow yourself to feel sad
2. Meditate on your sadness
3. Allow Spirit to flow In for healing
Nearly 30% of American adults report feeling profoundly sad in a recent survey. And no wonder. We are suffering with the challenges we are facing: the corona virus, making a living, our kid and their safety as we begin to think about whether to keep them home or not. These things on top of our more common concerns: caring for ourselves and family, making our relationships at home and at ou jobs work, and whatever is going on in our world. The key relief from feeling sad? Meditation helps a bunch.
A Personal Story
I was prompted to write this blog post because of the following story about my own life. I was feeling sad. Meditation helps.
This morning I felt heavy when I got up. Did some tossing and turning last night. Lynne was snoring and I was sleeping lightly. I fed our herd of two cats and a dog. I started my morning wake up routine. And I started to weep. A three Kleenex weep. It happened as I began to sing “Morning Has Broken” with Cat Stevens on the Amazon Echo. I had asked Alexa to “loop it”.
I sat down to do my morning meditation, and the tears came. I began to recognize the source of my sadness. I had the following series of thoughts.
1. Allow Yourself to Feel Sad (or Stressed or Lonely)
I was sad about the suffering I have been witnessing, from the coronavirus to Trump meltdown to people being scared as I venture out to time to Black People insisting on their long denied rights.
A profound sadness. And compassion for all who suffer. And especially those who are suffering and dying from not being able to breathe. A tortuous death. Without family around. Only with the suffering body and the suffering mind. Making decisions in the end about the “reasons”. “God has abandoned me”, “I’m going to hell”, to “I’m letting my loved ones down”, etc. (Each will have his/her own particular take on things).
I’m think these last thoughts partially because of our healer friend George who has been working with us for over 30 years. He does past life work, roots out the “story” behind the “glitch” that might be going on in present time in order to do the healing work needed to dissolve he “glitch”. And he has told stories, from his dousing work, of past lives in which we, or people we know in this lifetime that we knew back then, of decisions made in the final throes of death. Sometimes blaming God for the horrible circumstances.
2. Meditate on Your Sadness
I began my meditation routine, feeling sad. Meditation helps I said to myself. I began to breathe “into” the feeling. 5 Sacred Breaths. (This is a mindfulness meditation technique I developed several years ago.) And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist. After taking a deep breath or two, I would begin saying to myself, “Illuminate. Elevate. Radiate”.
5 times. It shifted my mind into a place of Illumination–the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”. This “Elevated” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness And then I began to follow my sit-down Higher Consciousness Meditation process. And I began to relax. Feeling sad began to dissipate. Meditation was working (My new book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation which you can get free, shows that scientific research on sadness and depression improvement, one of the particular benefits of meditation. As well as how and why meditation works. Check out a sample chapter, on the subject of Stress, to see another good example).
3. Allow Spirit to Flow In for Healing
My Higher Consciousness, my Soul, spoke to me as It often does in these moments of quiet. “Be comforted, my Child, this is a heart opening experience and you can only do what you can do.” Which I have come to know as the only healing work I can do, and that is to become aware of the suffering and settle into a State where “I” gets out of the way and Spirit flows. To do the work It intends to do given that “we” have engaged. To watch it, however, can be overwhelming and simply profoundly sad. Ant then rest into Illumination, where the real healing work is done.
It hurts to hurt. It’s my good fortune to be able to observe from a place of Illumination, can work from home, and not be worried about having to go to a restaurant and serve food to feed my kids. The healing work is what I can do– be quiet and let Source take over. And write about it.
The sadness began to subside. Check out my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation for some new sitdown and mindfulness meditation techniques. Use this link to purchase it at Amazon Kindle.
I Went to Work
Then I was inspired. I sent my daughter-in-law Christina a couple of new Daily Vibes to insert into the string of about 30 she has been working on. (Have you checked out the Daily Vibe? If you haven’t, go over to my “Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee” Facebook Page.) And check it out. And Like it so you get it every day. Here are a couple of the most recent ones.
She’s done an amazing job with my germ of an idea or words on a solid background. The best three were in honor of John Lewis, civil rights activist and member of the House of Representatives.
“Child of God. Master Teacher” to be put on an appropriate background. He had inspired me by with his Soul qualities, his compassion, his dedication. “Blessed are they whose hearts are open (in smaller letters–In these times)” along with “Stay strong. These days will pass.” He was a great guy and very Aware.
Conclusion
Nothing wrong with feeling sad. Or feeling any feeling. We are beings with feelings. Often feelings that challenge us to just “be” with them and let them be with us. By being with them, and breathing into them, and saying, as we might, “Peace be still” we can allow whatever treasure of realization might come floating to the surface for healing and solace. (Go to a similar post on Stress Relief with this link.)
If you are feeling sad, meditation helps, pure and simple. Leave your comment below. What do you think? Will some of these ideas help?
Like this post? Subscribe below to our weekly blog. Also “follow” my new feature, the Daily Vibe, on my Facebook Page that offers an uplifting thought to bring a smile to your face and a bounce in your step each day. Go to Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee at FB.
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July 20, 2020
Why Meditate? 5 Great Reasons
To reduce stress and loneliness
To invite “in” health and healing benefits
To bypass the mind’s constant chatter
To make direct contact with the Divine
To welcome our Soul’s participation in our lives
Have you ever wondered why people meditate? This post will discuss each of these reasons in detail and will outline the various forms of meditation that can be used.
1. Meditate To Reduce Stress and Loneliness
Buddha famously said that “Life is suffering”, referring to the difficulties we all face on Planet Earth, a beautiful place, while living in an amazingly complicated biomechanical vehicle that has to be fed, clothed, housed and cared for. We all do our best to try and manipulate our world to create the best conditions for ourselves, given our circumstances. Which include having to deal with other humans (and all of their faults), working, sitting in traffic, caring for our kids if we have them, laughing, crying and breathing.
Most of us have multiple mental, physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual issues which almost nobody else can really understand but which requires our attention. Therefore, to some degree we worry and have concerns over some or all of these things.
It’s no wonder we frequently feel stressed out and end up running on a lot of adrenaline, which produces inflammation, the source of many body ailments. Sometimes the stress seems overwhelming, and it sometimes makes us sick. Add to that the feeling that over 50% of our fellow humans’ reports feeling these days, lonely and unhappy, and the whole mixture makes for a life of suffering. Meditation helps.
2. Meditate to invite “In” the Health and Healing Benefits Science Says Exists
Meditation has been studied extensively in recent years by the scientific community, and the research shows that meditation can be beneficial. In a way that, according to Wikipedia, positively effects over 3000 conditions and ailments, including stress and loneliness, heart disease and high blood pressure. In my new book, The Many Benefits of Meditation, I summarize a number of the amazing findings, including links to a number of studies of a number of conditions and diseases.
Of course, to take advantages of these benefits we have to meditate, and according to one study, the more the better. Just like eating your vegetables. In addition to summarizing the findings, I offer my conclusions about why meditation works the way it does. One reason is that meditating not only stops the mind from making its usual rounds (and around and around) but stops, or at least helps to slow, the loop effect of a disease.
Often when a disease begins to take hold, it causes other symptoms, causes stress, and builds momentum toward a worse outcome. Meditation, regularly applied, interrupts this loop. Not to say that meditation is a miracle cure, but, according to the science, when done in conjunction with other more traditional treatments meditation can enhance the traditional treatment’s effects.
In addition, meditation can raise the vibratory rate of the person struck by a dis-ease. Thereby improving the body’s immune response to a human condition. And can return the body to its normal tendency toward good health.
I was amazed when I looked at the research. Not only because of the substantial number of high-quality studies that have been done, especially by noted researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn, but also because of the breadth and depth of the benefits uncovered. It would appear that a prescription for a regimen of meditation might be a good one for almost every traditional treatment given for an ailment.
That it is helpful in so many cases would lend itself to common use. Doing so invites “in” the health and healing benefits that meditation often brings.
3. Meditate to Bypass the Mind’s Constant Chatter
Thoughts just seem to flow in from who knows where and flow out again. A constant stream of commentary on the ever changing concerns we all have. And ruminations on the past as well as attempts to divine the future, so as to shape it to our liking. In addition, our minds creates observations and speculations about the immediate moment and what things mean all dominate the mind’s thoughts.
One of the benefits of meditation is to quieten the mind in order to find a Place of Peace that the restless mind seldom allows to happen.
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, the one most people think of as the Buddha, in his first sermon, after his famous evening under a Bodhi tree, said “This (understanding of cosmic law and order, Enlightenment) that I have attained is profound, hard to see and hard to understand, peaceful and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise.
He found a way to be peaceful and sublime through meditation, bypassing the mind’s constant chatter.
4. Meditate to Make Direct Contact with the Divine
One of the key teachings from our Master Teachers is that there is an intelligent, unifying force in the Universe (Spirit, God, Divine Intelligence). And that this force resides inside of us. Meditation is one of the ways used by many spiritual traditions to get in touch that force that lies within and is one way to have direct contact with the Divine.
‘Spirit Within’ has been taught for thousands of years, well before there was a system for writing the teachings down, and continues to be taught today. Here are a few examples. For millennia Hindus have acknowledged each other with the greeting “Namaste”, meaning “The Divine in Me Salutes the Divine in You!”. One commentator expanded upon in this way “I honor the Spirit in you, which is also in me. I salute the God within you.”
Lau Tzu, or Laozi, in the first lines of the Tao Te Ching, states that the Tao, God, Spirit which we all have access to is nameless, goes beyond distinctions, and transcends language: The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
Responding to a question from the Pharisees about when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus of Nazareth said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.
Carl Jung said it this way, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
5. Meditate to Welcome Spirit’s Participation in Our Lives
One answer to the question, “Why meditate?” then, is that meditation can be used to get in touch with this “One Spirit”mentioned above and grow, and evolve us into beings of Higher Consciousness–making it possible for us to live from a state of greater awareness, of Oneness. Then we can live as the Master Teachers did, with magnificence, as bearers of unconditional love and wisdom, illumined with the Light of the Spirit of the All, and worthy of receiving “all that will be added” to us.
Spirit awaits at all times for us to turn our attention toward it. Unfortunately, we are all so inundated with external circumstances and chatter of our minds that we are unable to experience a quiet state of mind that allows Spirit to flow in. Meditation helps because it facilitates the development of that quiet state of mind, if only for a moment at first, but with increasing frequency and duration the more we do it.
Our individualized Spirit, our Soul or personal Higher Consciousness, wants the best for us and will encourage us, if we let it, to grow and evolve. And will even help us elevate our vibratory rate to attract good things, people, and circumstances into our lives.
I became most familiar with my own Higher Consciousness, my “HiC” as I affectionately refer to that part of myself, when I was fired from a responsible leadership position for shedding light on the mismanagement of my agency by my supervisor. I dove deep into my meditation practice and found myself, as I wrote for therapeutic reasons, sensing a Presence surrounding me, encouraging to pursue this healing activity. Together “we” have written my books and launched my new career as an author.
What Kind of Meditation?
This is where it gets interesting to me. Fundamentally there are two types of meditation. The first type is “Sit down” meditation in which the meditator sits in a chair or on the floor and follows a process that, when done properly and over a long enough period of time that our minds begin to relinquish some of its tight grip on our persona.
The other type is “mindfulness meditation” (see Chapter 1 in my soon to be released book entitled Six Second Mindfulness Meditation in which the user takes only a short period of time to follow a process that might only take a minute, but interrupts our mind’s momentum, and creates a moment of peace.
There are many types of “sit down” meditation processes, whether they be self-managed or guided, done silently or using a chant, that have, as the end goal, mind training. The assumption being that the mind is a bit of a wild horse that needs to be tamed. This can be a somewhat difficult and lengthy process since the mind usually does not want to be trained and resists the notion of giving up its central role in the human personality to nothing. Or the moment of no thing, no thinking,
Years of such training is often required, although some the benefit can begin to be realized pretty quickly by a diligent practitioner using a skillful process. From my perspective, that doesn’t have to be. My own sit-down meditation process (see Chapter 5 in my new book) has as its goal not mind training, but going directly to the state of mind that is most beneficial—Illumination. The Illumination of the state of Mind of the practitioner by following this simple new process called Higher Consciousness Meditation.
This is what my new book (Higher Consciousness Meditation available at Amazon Kindle) is about: a simple but effective 5 minute “sit down” meditation technique, as well as some new “mindfulness meditations” along with a few of the traditional tried and true ones. All for the purpose of Illumination. This is method is easier and requires much less time to get to that State of Awareness where the benefits of meditation can be realized.
What do you think? Do these benefits seem attainable? Have you been using such techniques? Can you share your experience below in the Comments section?
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