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It is a well-known fact that meditation can literally and figuratively change your life for the better. However, few resources explore all that could happen when you close your eyes. Beyond sitting and waiting for the miraculous to happen, the mind can fire a wave of mental chatter and random incessant thoughts that threaten to steal your attention away from your intended focus (i.e., meditation).
So, despite your best intentions, dropping into the practice will make relatively new and seasoned practitioners alike think they aren’t doing it right. Likewise, it is commonplace to believe that practice may not be an ideal fit simply because assuming postures that embody what it looks like to sit in practice differs from all happening within.
If you, by chance, have found yourself wondering what it means to meditate and how one is supposed to practice when the mind goes rogue the moment you close your eyes, you are not alone. Thankfully, there are supportive practices that can help you to regain control of your attention. This post will outline what to do with your mind during meditation.
The universal truth of our being is that we are each unique individualized expressions of the Divine (aka spiritual beings) having a human incarnation. We are One with the One presence that is never an absence (aka the Divine), closer than our breath. Hence, we are expansive beyond human conception, as we have a body and a mind that can go beyond the physical senses to think outside circumstances.
As spiritual beings, having a human incarnation, we are energetic beings with an innate creative faculty to use the power of thought to co-create with universal intelligence to materialize our thoughts.
Since all thinking is creative, every thought is a unit of energy that can shift our energetic frequency. Everything is energy, and whether conscious or not, every thought we think and entertain generates an energetic vibration that magnetically attracts everything agreeable to its nature.
Like most things, all thoughts aren’t created equal, as they span the spectrum, from low to high vibrations with disempowering thoughts that originate from fear, doubt, and worry, emitting some of the lowest frequencies, to those of joy and happiness, which tops the scales with some of the highest vibrations.
Think that you are continuously surrounded by unlimited opportunities for more health, love, joy, financial wealth, and abundance, and you will indeed be met with more of the same. Whereas, if you singularly focus on the absolute worst that could happen, you are sure to manifest the substance of your fears. The more low vibrational thoughts you think, the more lack, limitations, and loss you experience until you shift your thoughts.
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