Personally I belief that it is possible for anyone to live a life of happiness,
inner peace, and outward success, no matter what their present or past
circumstances.
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There are very real
methods anyone can use to achieve these things-if they are willing
to make the necessary changes in how they see themselves and their
relationship to the rest of the world, and take the necessary
actions.
All traditions of
meditation flow from one premise: that the entire universe is made
of one all-encompassing energy, intelligent and aware, existing
forever as the source of everything. Because there |
is nothing outside of
it, say the mystics, because of its completeness, this energy has
nothing to get or need, nothing to fear. Simply because it is its
nature to do so, this one energy continually spins itself out as the
entire, infinite universe. The very nature of this energy, it is
said, is contentment, love, peace, happiness, and perfection.
The
totality of this energy, say the mystics, is who you really are; your seeming
separateness, an illusion. Saints and sages have for centuries attempted to
describe to humankind a state of awareness where this feeling of oneness with
everything in the universe is the predominant experience.
For
thousands of years, curious seekers have responded to these explanations by
asking, "If I am this one, infinite energy, the beginning less and endless
totality of everything, if I really am Love itself, then why do I feel so bad?
Why do I have so many problems? Why don't I feel the peace and happiness you say
is my true nature?"
And the
mystic invariably would answer, "You do not experience your true nature because
of your mind. Your mind keeps you from the experience of what truly is."
These
explanations state that the one energy of reality, at the moment of creation,
polarized itself into a seeming duality-good and evil, male and female, up and
down, here and there and all other pairs of seeming opposites.
This
duality, however, is more apparent than real. In each pair of opposites, each
part is dependent on the other for its existence, like two sides of the same
coin. "Cold" is meaningless without "hot"; "good" makes no sense without "bad".
According to the mystical philosophies of the East, it is the tension between
these pairs of opposites, in your mind, that actually causes the universe to
manifest.
This
tension between opposites is also reflected in the human brain. The brain,
divided into two hemispheres, right and left, has the same dual structure-made
more acute by the fact that in virtually all people the two hemispheres are
unbalanced, a state called brain lateralization. Since the brain filters our
reality in this split-brain way, we tend to see things in terms of duality
rather than the oneness spoken of by mystics.
Of
course, today we know that this is true-the mind does indeed act as a filter,
coloring our view of reality just as colored glasses give an illusory tint to
what we see. As we grow up, our brain is programmed that some things cause pain
and should be avoided, while others bring pleasure and should be sought.
Our
brain will always filter reality to confirm that its predominant beliefs and
associations are the truth. No wonder we don't see the universe of love and
harmony described by saints and mystics!
If the
brain could somehow learn to operate in a more coherent, holistic manner, if the
two sides of the brain could somehow balance, interact more, and function, as
one, then possibly our experience of reality would be different. The more
lateralization in the brain (in other words, the more tension between polar
opposites) the more feelings of separation, fear, anxiety, and isolation.
In
fact, as we shall see, only a lateralized brain can continue to entertain the
types of beliefs that result in dysfunctional and addictive behaviors and the
painful feelings that accompany them.
But our
brain should not be considered like an organ what produces our consciousness, we
should consider it instead like the product of our consciousness.
The
connections between the cells in our brain become created following the
necessities of our consciousness. In this way, our brain evolves and produces
his self and our implicit consciousness. Therefore, must our mind be seen as a
potentiality!
Modern
brain research indicates that long-term meditation does in fact balance the
brain, creating a synchrony between the two hemispheres. They discovered that
electrical brain wave patterns of meditators changed, in periods of deep
meditation, to a single, coherent pattern, indicating that both sides of the
brain - ordinarily out of phase - were working together in a balanced,
synchronous manner.
This
and other research has demonstrated that this balancing, or synchronization, of
the hemispheres of the brain happens in all forms of meditation. The degree of
hemispheric synchronization can be very precisely determined by measuring the
meditator's brain wave patterns with an electroencephalograph (EEG) machine.
Any
kind of focusing will bring about a degree of brain synchronization (i.e.
meditation). The greater the focus, the greater the synchronization (and the
deeper the meditative state).
The
mystic, then, sitting to meditate, balances the brain through some form of
focusing, whether by repeating a prayer or mantra, keeping the attention on the
flow of the breath, staring at a candle flame, or by using one of many other
techniques. Whatever the technique, the effect on the brain is substantially the
same-brain synchronization, and after much practice, transcendental experience.
So just
what is this transcendental awareness? Is it becoming some kind of a blob of
undifferentiated guru that wants to sit and stare at its navel instead of going
to work in the morning, or some kind of robed, smiling person handing out
flowers in the airport?
Contrary to common Western mythology about such things, persons operating
continually in this type of awareness (a kind of 24-hour-a-day state of
meditative alertness sometimes referred to as "the awakened mind") are more
productive, happier, and capable of more intimacy, more creativity, and more
wholeness. Since the filter through which they view reality does not split
everything in to categories based on arbitrary early life programming, they see
life more objectively, without fear and judgment, without a need
to
manipulate others, without need for approval-in short, without the limitations
of mental programming.
This
is, in fact, a state of peak performance. And, when the brain is in this highly
synchronous and coherent state, it produces large quantities of pleasure-causing
petrochemicals called endorphins, making the whole experience very pleasurable!
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