What is Meditation?
Dr Pradeep Deshmukh
Consultant and Advisor, Coach and Mentor, at Pacific Toxicology Consulting
Increase Your Self-Awareness
Are you aware of the 60,000 thoughts that are running through your head every day? Do you know what you are thinking of all the time? Do you have times where you are not sure of what you are thinking of or what you want?
Meditation gives you clarity on your thoughts, your inner desires and increased self-awareness. The thoughts include those you actively engage in and those you are not conscious of but are always there. An average unmeditated mind usually picks up only about a few out of thousands of thought strands that float through the mind in an hour. A meditated mind, on the other hand, picks up considerably more.
The more you meditate, the more self-aware you become. You become more conscious of what you think, the way you think, what you feel and what you want. This clarity is important in your decision making processes and in leading your life. Without such clarity, you become easily swayed by different external factors around you.
During meditation, you stop becoming attached to the physical world and you start becoming a third party observer to your reality. You become an observer to the kind of thoughts and feelings that run through you. You become an observer to how people act around you. You become an observer to the things in your environment. You stop becoming ruled by your ego and you become more aligned with your higher self.
Meditation is an important tool for living consciously. With meditation, you become more connected with your surroundings, the people around you, the world around you. You become more conscious of the interconnection between everything. With prolonged meditation, you start shedding away the lower levels of consciousness and start vibrating at a higher level of energy. Fear, Anger, Desire, Pride stop having a hold over your thoughts and behaviors. In place of that, you enter into levels of Courage, Neutrality, Willingness and above.
The increased consciousness from your meditation naturally leads to an increased spiritual attunement. You will however experience a stronger connection with supreme power that is god, which is highly beneficial to you in life. Your intuition is what gives you the most insightful and valuable solutions, over your logical mind and ego.
There are enormous benefits of meditation to give you an increased fulfillment of life. You gain increased mastery of yourself, become more positive and become rejuvenated.
Professor of Microbiology, Director, Internal Quality Assurence Cell | former Coordinator (Head) Int Biotechnology Unit | Coordinator BIC Antimicrobial resistance Centre
4 年In Islam religion it has been practising for 1000 s of years in “ namaz” every individual has to meditate as mandatory. 5 times in day. Those who practice , feels it’s benefits. I appreciate dr Deshmukh’ s study.