Zen

Your awareness makes it possible for you to become attentive of aspects within your life. A pivotal proficiency to grasp is to be able to observe your internal thoughts and emotions as if you were a spectator. Whenever you become aware of emotions, thoughts or feelings, you have an opportunity. You can stop briefly, then decide to accept or alter your way of thinking. In doing so, your awareness can result in a more satisfied and well-balanced life.

There are often times during the course of a day when you can direct your attention to help bring facets of calmness within you. As you take a walk down the street, or by way of the park, you might focus on the sounds you take in. What is important is that you are in that present, as you can use these techniques without the rigour of a schedule – you can gain from their application any time in your life.

There are no preeminent times to practice meditation, however, most will concur that it is necessary to develop some time for you, no matter the time of day. While conventional meditation practice in a relaxing location where you are less likely to be distracted is valuable, you can apply aspects of your cognition, mindfulness or meditation at any time or place. Undoubtedly, it is in these hectic, stressful or uncontrolled times when you need the real benefits of these meditative practices the most.

When two things take place successively we call them cause and effect, if we think one event made the other one take place. We call it a reaction if we believe one event is the response to the other. If we perceive that two incidents are unrelated, we call it a mere coincidence. If we believe somebody deserved what took place, we call it retaliation or reward, depending upon whether the event was adverse or favourable for the recipient. If we cannot discover a factor for both events happening in close proximity, we call it an accident. Ponder for a moment, that everything is connected so that events produce ripples of effect.

An essential and frequently neglected aspect of meditation, awakening or attunement is the importance of knowing yourself.

If you do not comprehend yourself, your thoughts, emotions, reactions, concerns and desires, then you will constantly battle to be in harmony within yourself. Any type of awakening or meditation will result in an inevitable surge in the energies of your inner true-self. As these energies increase within you, they can create problems as they feed your own emotions, anxieties and reactions. If you do not know yourself, you might look to blame others for your troubles, when actually the challenges are from within, triggered by the awakening of your own inner energies feeding elements concealed deep within your own self.

The utmost aspiration for anybody undertaking meditation is to realise a comprehensive quietness of the mind. However, for many of us, this is frankly not achievable. If you have a noisy mind, attempting to attain an absolute silence of mind may be difficult to achieve. Typically, your very own attempts to quieten the mind will replenish your mind with the noise of thoughts similar to those which you are attempting to eliminate. While you might not have the ability to attain a total quietness of mind, you should not give up. After all, it is more important to focus on mastering your mind. The distinction being, that as you come to be that master, you can learn to focus your mind with one thought, so by banishing the noise to the background.

Be mindful of the destination dependency; where it becomes a fixation with the notion that happiness is elsewhere. That happiness can be magically found at your next destination, at your next job or even with a different companion. Until you surrender the concept that happiness is in another place, it is going to never be where you are.

The flow of energy throughout the human apparatus is important for your continued health and well-being. Gradually your energy pathways, typically described as meridians, can come to be clogged due to the accumulation of emotional blockages. Through the application of Solar Radiance to unblock your energy paths, your own energies can then flow to nurture all parts of you.