How Meditation Works

It is very easy to understand as to how meditation works.Thinking process is connected to breathing process. Mind movement needs breath movement.If you stop your breath, the mind stops suddenly.No worries,no tension,no past,no future.And you are in meditation!! Mind moving fast needs fast movement in breath. That is why when you are in anger, breath will move fast.

Thus only a moving breath is joined with the mind, with the body; a non-moving breath is disjoined. Then you are in the neutral gear. The car is running, the power is on, the car is making a noise -; it is ready to go forward -; but it is not in gear, so the body of the car and the mechanism of the car are not joined. The car is divided into two. It is ready to move, but the moving mechanism is not joined with it. The same happens when breath takes a turn. You are not joined with it. In that moment you are at your center,you are in touch with your real self,you are where you want to be.

That is why Pranayam is so important.That is why Pranayam is said to be central to Astanga Yoga of Patanjali.Pranayam,more than anything else,cultivates the mind.A cultivated mind ceases to be your master(as it usually is),and becomes your slave.Then mind does not use you;you use the mind whenever and wherever you want,and shut it whenever you want.Once the mind is closed you in the present,you are in meditation.

Meditation needs only you.It needs you as a child,free from all the garbage you have stuffed yourself with during life journey.It is this garbage which has created your logical mind,which is creating all the problems.Keep this mind aside,and you are in meditation.It is not forcing the mind to be quiet.Quiet is already there within you.Side track the mind and you are on your desired track,in meditation.

It is much easier to be in meditation because that is your real/natural state.It is not learning something new,but being in touch with which you already know.

Use your logical mind,and you may or may not find answers/solutions to your problems.Keep this mind aside,and be with yourself,and you get all your solutions which may not sound logical,but will ultimately prove right and fruitful for you.

The article above talks of concentration on some object to stop the thought process.It is always better not to be dependent on some outside help for meditation.Human body is self-sufficient machine,and can be used independently.Therefore, let us not develop the habit of focusing on some outside object from the very beginning.Focus on self,focus on navel portion,focus on breath and so on.

Normally the mind is in a state of turmoil, filled with anger, jealousy, worry, hatred and ill-will – leading to disease-prone body.
In meditation, mind moves to a state where the thoughts are stilled and emptiness prevails.It not only makes you physically and mentally fit,it leads you to new awareness,an altogather new world,to your spirituality.

'When you can learn to follow the breath to your center, to your core, and open the lotus blossom,your thought goes there and you quiet down. Otherwise your mind will be flitting and fluttering. It's a bringing together of the breath, and then you can bring together your thoughts, and everything becomes not that drastically important.'

'You watch,not control the wandering mind,you remain centered in your watching the mind, you remain unconcerned -; just a pure witness, just like a mirror, reflecting: whatsoever is happening is good. Then slowly slowly as the watcher becomes stronger it starts absorbing the energies. Then energies are not available for psychic wandering, and those wanderings start stopping on their own accord.'Osho