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The Power of a True Meditation Experience
Most people don’t really know what meditation is.
I often hear people explain how they meditate “in their own way” and it’s interesting. If they really knew what meditation was, they’d never compare it to taking a long walk in the woods or listening to music. Meditation takes you out of space and time into a realm beyond the senses where you can really gain clarity. That’s true meditation, and the experience can’t be reproduced in any way other than to sit still, close your eyes, and go within.
Sooner or later, as you practice meditation more and more, you will find a really still and blissful inner world that you never knew about because you have always been so focused on the outside world.
Just like how most people have never experienced real love, if you’ve never touched that deep stillness, you simply cannot fathom it. In true meditation, there’s something sacred and spiritual that cannot be reproduced by any stand-in practice. Anything you’re doing that still uses the senses is only inviting distractions into your experience, therefore you will never get to a state of real meditation.
What’s in the Stillness?
In a state of meditation, when you’ve slipped into that “other place”, you find deep stillness. It comes with a…