Q: What is meditation? What is the best way to meditate?
A: First, it goes without saying that there are many, many different ways to meditate. To determine the best way to meditate, you first have to decide what you are going for.
It’s best of course to be completely honest about this. If you say that you are meditating on awareness, but the whole time you are concentrating on opening your chakras, your results are going to be very mixed up and inconsistent at best.
Are you trying to manifest money? A lover? Are you trying to relax? Are you trying to open up the chakras, or open up to the siddhis? Or are you trying to become more aware of awareness itself? I’m going to tell you about meditating on awareness.
First, most people in meditation circles are aware of meditations based on awareness. This is best done in a relatively quiet space, where you are really doing nothing but being aware, aware of where consciousness takes you. This is really a meditation of witness consciousness, or your higher self. It is also akin to becoming aware of the inner adult persona, who is balanced, rational, and loves all parts of itself like its children.
This may become a meditation where you become very aware of the automatic nature of your ego, constantly making noise, trying to figure and refigure things out, in the past present, and the future. It’s curious how the ego is constantly trying to rewrite and reconfigure events of the past, the present, and the future.
This meditation may also make you much more aware of your surroundings and/or the constant presence of peace which surrounds and envelops everything, like the air we breath.
But there are other meditations of awareness. These are important because to be free of the dominating nature of the ego, we must be aware of and accept all parts of ourselves at all times, whether it be while it’s quiet, noisy, during the day, and during times of stress and conflict. Only by knowing all the parts of ourselves and accepting them can we be free.
Continued in next post.
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