HOW TO BE THOUGHTLESS DURING MEDITATION

“Empty the cup’’ -Zen master Nan-in

While studying all the schools of meditation, I have found many wonderful and assured techniques but most of them have one destination and that is to be thoughtless. It is the stage when you entertain no thoughts. So let’s discuss the techniques and the need of being thoughtless.

WHY YOU NEED TO BE THOUGHTLESS

Being thoughtless is one of your favorite things to do coz you always wish to have some sound sleep whenever you are mentally or physically tired. Sleep is the thoughtless condition which is important for us to be well. Sleep heals us after the tiring working hours but universal healing power works upon us in a far greater way when we meditate. You reach a wonderful place in your inner world that gives you love, bliss and silence and keeps the negative emotionsaway. And this place is really helpful when any uncomfortable situation takes birth in your life. You get the relief as a reward of meditation. My most motivating statement is written by the great writer Deepak Chopra, he writes that your mental activities may be quite for a few moments, but they will almost certainly start up again at full speed.

WHAT ARE THE MAIN OBSTACLES

Our mind is the thought generating organ of our body. So at first it is really an important task to stop our brain to think. We all are habitual of having thoughts since morning till the time when we finally get sleep. The second most important reason is that sometime we get more thoughts coz we try to check on then intentionally. Another important reason is that we always dwell in the past and future, it is tough for us to think about the present moment. We all should always remember, when we dedicate ourselves to the present moment, we develop connection to our source. Meditation is the most powerful way that teaches us to be in the present moment.

TECHIQUES TO BE THOUGHTLESS

It is in fact the most important question for the beginners. Here are the most used and working techniques-

1-      You can feel like an observer and your mind like a screen, start to watch all your thoughts, soon you will reach at the place of being thoughtless.

2-      Paying all your attention to your coming and going breath is very effective; feel your every breath and rest will be taken care by the universe.

3-      Just don’t make extra efforts to empty your mind; it can create a sort of pressure.

4-      You can use a simple mantra, like I AM or SO hum. Keep all your attention to the mantra while repeating it.

5-      Sit for the meditation with pure mind, try to calm your mind and soon you will experience no mind.

FINAL THOUGHTS -

Today your mind can be an obstacle for you, but soon it will become your biggest asset, so keep trying and never give up. Soon you will feel like a boss where your mind works under your control. Use any technique which may suit you well and don’t worry about the results. Believe in your power of intention and certainly you will experience the stage of awareness which comes from being thoughtless.

Taller and stronger the tree is, the more it will be having strong roots. I simply mean that if you wish to flourish at every level, then you need to make your roots stronger. As a human being, we have our roots in our soul. So the more we are connected with our soul, the more we will be successful at every level.

Meditation is the only key to go within and to come out with energy to run our life in this outer world with more success and enthusiasm. After I have got to know and felt the importance of meditation, I started to ask people whom I met that do they meditate or not. I found many successful people meditate no matter how busy they are.

Meditation can bring great change at every level, let’s see:

AT HEALTH LEVEL:

Meditation can also create miracles in our bodily health. When I tried it first time, I got rid of my insomnia. If you are having any trouble regarding sleep, like if you need more sleep or you don’t get enough sleep, then you can also cure it by meditation. It is well proved that it can cure problems regarding blood pressure. Healing power works upon us when we’re thoughtless and we become sowhen we sleep deeply or we meditate, in fact I would say that they works better while we meditate.

The most exciting thing is that it does wonders in our ageing. Normally when we’re getting older, telomeres (cover of cells) degenerate but when we meditate, telomeres starts to regenerate. In other words meditation slows down the process of ageing for sure. When you are connected with cosmic source, your energy level increases at every level. When you quite your mind, you send messages of peace and harmony to every cell in your body. Your immunity also increases so you enjoy great health.

A PROMISE TO MEET YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF:

Meditation is also capable to cleanse your karmic account. In other words, it destroys your bad karmas and thus makes our life better. You will get to know who you are and what your calling is. You can put any question and find the answer within. It’s your appointment withyourself; you get to know of who you are while you meditate. The most important thing is how much you are connected with your soul depends more on how well you are with thoughts and dreams.Your spiritual growth leads you to the great success. Knowing you can be a great pleasure for you, believe me.

AT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL LEVEL:

It is the best remedy for depression. In fact one can feel lighter at first time. It enhances our concentration and memory power. Since I have started to meditate, I don’t need to make any extra effort to remind me anything. People who are very busy in their life, they get stress easily and so they do it a lot to make them fresh. You will become mentally strong and so you face your problems in a smarter way.

It fills you so much of positivity in your mind that you feel the good results when you try anything new. Your skills and talents will get a new heights and your hidden qualities would come out. We suffer emotionally because of our relationships, but because of meditation our aura becomes strong and so with the help of it, our relationships become better. It also increases your intuitive qualities.

FULFILMENT OF YOUR WISHES:

As a firm believer of law of attraction, I can guarantee that you can fulfil any your wish if you do visualize of the exact moving picture of your dream. It is called creative visualization and this visualization works better when you do it just after your meditation sitting. The simple reason is that you can’t enter in a room through its doors with two heavy bags on your shoulder, but when you empty yourself with any blockage then you create new things easily.

Brenda Barandy writes in her book ‘Beyond the Secret’ thatmake sure that your mind is like blank paper so that you can draw anything on it. It is hard to enter in your dreams with the loads of thoughts.So empty your mind and then enter in your dream world, they will materialize sooner.

Final Thoughts of this post:

Some people don’t meditate just because they think that it will take much time but believe me it’s not like that if you do meditate, then you will have extra energy and better management of time so you complete all your works sooner than before.

I would like to conclude my thoughts concerning meditation by a very effective statement of Dr Deepak Chopra - he says about meditation that you learn to stay centered and awake to all possibilities whenever a challenge arises, so that you are able to choose the best course of actions and desires will be fulfilled.

 You can call it your genei. So just choose the way which suits you most and start a new journey, journey of you.