Why Meditate?

So meditate? What's the point after all?

First, meditation is a direct path to your undying Self. Your God-self. What keeps you from direct realization of Self is the ego which falsely identifies as Self. It's your monkey mind with all of it's attachments and aversions tearing you away from the very freedom you already are.

Think of your mind as a turbulent pond. Your thoughts, the wind, whipping the pond into a frenzy of waves. Meditation is like calming that wind and settling that pond. Eventually the pond becomes crystal clear and you can see what's underneath.

Meditation is fantastic for that body you're using to explore the world you created. A myriad of studies have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals touting the health-benefits of meditation. Lowering cholesterol and blood-pressure, lowering the stress hormones like cortisol, lowering stress. When you stop allowing your mind to beat yourself up - the body follows.

Meditation should be fun, and never a chore. And it's also counterproductive to look at it as an escape. You do not need to spend 7 hours a day in formal sitting meditation to reach enlightenment - you're already there.

Don't know how to meditate? Here is a simple, yet profoundly powerful method that you can use for just 3-10 minutes a day.

The Most Powerful Word In The English Language

Metaphysically speaking, the most powerful word in the English language is not love, or God, or even cookie - although cookie is up there on my list. The word is "allow".

First, you are an unlimited being that creates the Universe with your consciousness. Your beingness created a mind which thinks it's a body. However, you are unlimited.

So let me pose this question: What does an unlimited being have to do to create anything, any situation, any experience in the Universe? The answer is merely "allow" it.

In the Sedona Method and the Release Technique, goals are usually phrased as such: "I allow myself to ....". Think about that. In order to achieve any goal you merely need to allow it. Let go of resisting it.

The entire Universe is yours now, but you are holding away the things you think you don't have. Your mind thinks you are this limited body. What do you desire now? what is preventing you from allowing it to happen? Let that go.

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
-Yoda

Does God Want You To Be Rich?

There's a lot being written right now about whether or not God wants you to be abundant. So far, everything I have read missed important points.

First, I believe that anthropomorphising God is unnecessarily limiting our idea of God. We are still laboring under the impression of a bearded man who lives in the sky and randomly acts in mysterious ways. God is the unlimited, omnipresent soul of the Universe, of which we are all a part. God wants us to be whatever we desire - rich or poor. Above that, God wants us to realize our unity with the Universe, and that we are the outprojections of God and not separate beings.

So, should we take a vow of poverty, or go for the gold? The answer is: whatever makes you happy and brings you closer to God. For most people that is abundance, for some it is not.

Some people use the manifestation of abundance as a spiritual practice. Money and things are just symbols of the energy they are learning to attune to at will. They build an unceasing awareness of God as the only source of everything. This is great.

Some people join monastic orders and take vows of simplicity and poverty, spending all day in meditation. They gain experience connecting consciousness with their inner God-mind. This is great too.

Problems ensue when people lose sight of God. When money becomes their God, or when they are overcome with pride and fundamentalist attitudes. It's great to be rich as long as you are using your inner God-consciousness to do so. It's great to live austerely as long as you are becoming more in tune with your God-mind.

Both paths can bring you to the realization that you are manifesting the Universe with your consciousness. There are many traps along the way, but they all come in two flavors - attachments and aversions. Attachments are those things we cling to, and aversions are those things we push away. God, the Universe, is a great teacher and has a way of taking away the things we are attached to, and giving us more of our aversions. Giving up our attachments and aversions, we manifest everything a will.

Seek what material things you will, but remember that God is the source.