The Spiritual Health

The practice of meditation had developed in ancient India and China, but it is now practiced all over the world quite extensively.

Dictionary meaning of the word “to meditate” is “to engage in contemplation or reflection”. This is a quite accurate description of the practice of meditation in the present age. It has developed beyond the mystical method of seeking the ecstasy of union with the divine or God for its own sake, as it was practiced in the ancient times. It has also grown beyond some of the modern types of meditation which puts more emphasis on attaining “peace of mind” by detaching mind from all its normal functions. This kind of detachment has been found to induce a sense of mental paralysis rather than mental peace. The mind also loses the capacity of registration, interpretation and application in this method.

But, the present day creative mediation is involved with three stages of mediation – registration, interpretation, and application. These mental activities involve cause and effect, contact with a source of inspiration, and the consequent ability to use and apply the benefits accrued by meditation.

The meditation process includes a method by which the consciousness could be focused, aligned towards the first source of spiritual inspiration i.e. the soul. This process could be learned and practiced regularly. The process starts with the mental activity that makes the lower mind that is involved in analyzing and directing into alignment with higher mind and soul through conscious direction. A thought or a “seed idea” contemplated in the light of the soul produces new thoughts, mental illumination, which the lower mind interprets and applies.

The process of meditation is involved in the process of mental receptivity. The process could be considered as a method of channelizing the vital energy. Today, scientists also agree that everything could be considered as energy – which is a basic occult concept. The life force that holds all manifestation of life in a being is energy and consciousness could be considered as a response to this energy infusing human hearts and minds. Meditation helps in clearly directing thoughts with the mind held steady in the light of the soul. This is a scientific way of contacting those major aspects of life force which is better known as light, love and power by us. Such activity provides right interpretation, and direction in the form of ideas and planning of specific activity.

Meditation is a scientific technique which has been found to produce results if it is executed with precision and care. Though this process could be learnt, the application would vary from person to person. Everyone has to find the way of meditation for himself.