Meditation

Oct 16, 2019 | Life

Meditations

What do we mean by “Meditate”?

Meditation has different meanings to different people.  From the viewpoint of Lost Creek Blue Bird, it is the foundation of personal fulfillment.  Once I learned I had value, I was unique, and had a great deal to learn, I began to focus on my prayer life as an approach to meditation.  This is only my example.  You may have a different focus. After all, our spiritual dimension is a reality of life.  It is not naturally recognized by each person.  When it is recognized, we become hungry for enriching that dimension.  As humans, God made us with infinite potential.  However, it is up to us to develop that potential.  We all hope for a fulfilled life.  How and what are the methods to achieve this?

Our seeking, searching, and hoping for a life and world around us that is hopeful and peaceful keeps most of us motivated for the hunt!  Over the last several decades, meditation has been primarily associated with Eastern religion and with the movement exercise of yoga.  As yoga moved into the Western Hemisphere, we became less intimidated by the “word” and learned it is not a religion. Instead, we have learned that our prayer life is meditation.  When we pray and are not asking for material things, but asking for others, asking for hope, asking for healing, asking for internal peace and especially, asking to recognize what God has in mind for our lives, we are in a state of MEDITATION. 

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We seek to understand our place in the world, our community, and if we are thoughtful, where our place is in our family.  Our seeking for our God becomes more possible when we become quiet and talk quietly and confidentially.  No other is involved in our meditation.  We decide when and how long our meditation lasts.  There are no rules.  There are some helpful hints to help us.  Tuning out our daily worries, anxieties, what activity or chore is next, what project must be completed next, how to get along with that co-worker are the beginning challenges when starting your meditation.

One easy tool really can help.  Breathing!!  Learning to breathe in deeply and slowly, then breathe out in the same manner, repeatedly, we can focus on the sensations of our body as we fully give it oxygen.  We began to relax tightened muscles.

Meditation takes practice.  Starting can entail just 5-6 minutes to begin.  What happens as you grow is a hungering and a thirst for deeper thought and contact.  You learn about your thoughts.