Why not? Just kidding. Actually, there is scientific data coming into light showing that meditation does indeed improve your health and well-being.
What those of us that have been meditating for a long time already know is that it slows your heart rate, oxygenates the body, reduces stress, sharpens mental focus and helps you to gain power over your emotions. And perhaps, more than any other reason, it is just so dang relaxing!
So, there you go, no more excuses – everyone that meditates says their days go better when they meditate, they feel better, have more clarity, more focus, pretty much more of everything that is good. So again, why not?
PLUS, we can use meditation to communicate with our Three Selves. I think I am pretty safe in saying that everyone is familiar with the idea that we all have an Unconscious or Subconscious Mind, right? If not, please notify me via my contact page. And so it is, everyone knows we have one, but almost no one knows how to access it or how to communicate with it; it seems we are at the mercy of our Unconscious Minds, does it not? I am here now to dispel the idea that we cannot communicate with our Unconscious Minds; we can, we just didn’t know how. Now we do – see my free article Our Three Minds and check out the How page in this series for a further clarification. Understanding how our three minds all interact helps immensely with opening these lines of communication.
Have you seen the movie, The Secret? And, now that you know the ‘Secret’ you are still not manifesting the way you would like, is that a fair statement? I thought so – I hear it all the time; phrases like, “The Secret is a bunch of ………………………….!” Fill in the blank with any word that works for you, but in essence, it doesn’t work! Well kind of, the truth is The Secret does work – it is valid; the reason it does not seem to work is because we get in our own ways and don’t even know it. Why not? Because the key to The Secret lies within our Unconscious Minds and very few understand that and if they do, they don’t know how to change it.
That, my friends, is my goal of these pages, to help you understand how to communicate with your Self so that you can unleash The Secret and begin attracting the life you want. Oh, by the way, you are already doing that – attracting the life you want, that is. I know, it isn’t the life you “Think” you want, but it is however, the life you want. Once you delve into your Unconscious Mind and become aware of your paradigm, you will begin to understand how that is so. Note that not everything you ‘uncover’ are you going to like, or love. However, once you start uncovering and becoming aware, you will no doubt have a multitude of “Aha” moments, as in, “Oh, THAT’s why that happened the way it did!”
Is it easy? No, of course not, nothing of this magnitude is ever easy; however, it IS simple; and therein lays the beauty of it. All it really takes is practice. Once you know the basics of meditation, just continue to practice on a regular basis and you will find that it does indeed get easier; even to a point of being ‘second nature’, in other words you just enter a meditative state whenever necessary without really even thinking about it.
It is difficult at first because our paradigm; our Unconscious Minds’ programming is still too cluttered. THAT is why THIS process is so important, because you will learn how to go in and unclutter your Unconscious Mind. Free it up to receive all the new information that you want to present to it. A note of caution; you are already doing that. Again, I point you to my article Our Three Minds where I go into more detail about this. In a nutshell, everything you ‘say’ to yourself goes into the Unconscious Mind – it remembers EVERYthing! So, the next time you miss a putt on the golf course and mutter under your breath, or not under your breath, what does the Unconscious Mind hear? Yup – every word, but mostly whatever negative connotation you say. How do I know this? Simple, I used to do it. I stopped doing it – and yes, it is hard, but all it takes is practice, and I went from a 12 handicap to a 6 in a couple of months. If you are a golfer, you know how hard that is. The same is true no matter what you are doing, sports, computing, even shopping; think for a moment what came just before saying “….. should have…” with your Self-talk. Therein Ladies and Gentlemen is why you are not manifesting the way you think you should be. You are not worthy of it. I am not making that judgment, you are. Whenever you say something to your Self that includes “Should have” you are telling yourself that you made a mistake and you are less than, that you did it wrong, or it could have been done better. Does that make sense? If not, or you have anything else to say about all this, please visit my Contact page and let me know.
So… gee whiz, it sure took a long time to get here, huh? So Why meditate? So you can number one, come to know your Self better, actually… make that simply know your Self! Because until you truly know your Self, you are just basically cruising through life on auto-pilot, living according to your programming, which was given to you when? Yes indeed, when you were a child. As I said, our Unconscious Mind remembers EVERYthing while our Conscious Mind is lucky to remember what we had for breakfast this morning, unless breakfast is a habit and we have the same thing every day. The keyword here is ‘habit’; however, I am not going into that here and now, that is a further discussion which I will release at a later date. Enough is enough, already, right? Right!
