Meditation is a tool many successful and creative people use to master their mind and body connection. Meaning: their emotions and thoughts. Today we will explore the power of meditation and how it may influence your life in a life-affirmative way.
There are many benefits you can reap by practicing the art of meditation. First of all: you will become more self-aware about your emotions and thoughts. You will learn to control your emotions and be with them, which can be very helpful and productive in social situations where people may make you angry. Instead of getting angry or passive aggressive you learn to observe your own emotions and choose how to react. This is a very conscious approach to life: you're no longer the victim of other peoples bullshit or hatered, or the fear media project. You are no longer a victim of what happens around you or going on in the world. You have become the master of your emotions and no one has the power to change that. When you feel powerful emotions like that: you in turn blossom creatively and express ideas effortlessly.
There is no greater freedom than knowing how to create your own happiness, wellbeing and success without being depenend on others. You see, many of us in this civilized nice new age world seek approval via social media. We obsessively view our not so "smart" phones and feel a quick domapine release when we get approved. All of that feeds our narcissism, making us weak mentally, emotionally and physically.
There is no strength in deep narcissism, only weakness, suffering and lonileness. Most narcissists are fragile as hell, like babies that react with rage and sadness whenever another human hurt their egos. It's understandable that babies have no emotional control, but grown adults should have emotional control and learn to empathize.
Dissolve Tramuas and Narcissism.
As children we were all narcissists, craving the attention of our mothers and fathers. This was neccessary, we wouldn't have survived without a strong sense of narcissism. A healthy person learns to dissolve their narcissism by interacting with siblings, and or friends when they reach the age of of 5-8. The child begins to realize that he or she is not the center of the universe, that how you act influence how others feel and think. You learn to play the social game in order to fit in. Play nice, play like you're fair and repress all of the shadow emotions like selfishness and rage. If you acted out on these dark impulses, like almost all children do at sometime. You were most likely punished by parents and teachers, they may have yelled at you with rage telling you how bad it is to feel rage or be selfish. Trying to teach you a lesson or something. As if you were a bad person for having regular dark emotions like we all do.
When we grow up in this world as kids: we are taught to be "nice" and repress our dark impulses. Such repression takes form in education: you were taught to sit still, listen to authority and seek validation from athority. You were taught that the only way to be validated from parents and teachers, is to perform good at school, get a good fucking grade and do what everyone else does. Basically "FALL IN LINE". But as I personally grew older, I realized how much happier and creative I am when im WAY OUTSIDE THE LINE.
And instead just follow my creative DNA and not give a fuck about what other people may think about my creative evolution. Anyway, this blog is not about me. Let's get back to writing about you.
So as we all do, you developed mental patterns as a kid which effect your emotions and mind as an adult. You may feel a sense of depression, a gnawing sense of anxiety which you don't seem to understand. Perhaps you're getting perscription drugs for the suffering or seeking out alcohol, or other drugs to numb the traumatic experience of being forced by parents and teachers to repress your creative potential and your dark shadow.
Your shadow consists of the follwing emotions.
- Rage.
- Aggression.
- Hatered.
- Envy.
- Jelousy.
- Selfishness.
- Lust for revenge.
- Vital libido to hunt and reproduce.
Now, we all obviously understand that these emotions are not necessarily "good" or "holy" emotions. It's understandable that teachers and parents try to repress those traits in their kids, so that they can become civilized "normal and nice" citizens.
However, have you ever wondered why those emotions are bad?
What makes rage bad? What makes selfishness bad? What makes anger bad?
Well, they all have the potential to cause destruction that's for sure. But what makes a human emotion bad? In reality: there really arent any bad emotions, you're perfectly imperfect just the way you are. The emotions aren't bad, but the way those emotions are projected sometimes have devestating consequences.
Such as murder, wars, etc...
However, since we all are humans and share similar DNA, we all intuitively know that each and everyone of us carries a shadow. And the more we try to repress it by appearing "nice" and "likable", the more unconscious we become. The shadow finds other expressions: you escape from those dark impulses by consuming too much alcohol, getting into drugs, becoming fat, consuming entertainment, watching TV, playing videogames, virtue signaling on social media. You see, when you learn to repress all of your dark emotions, the only way to not feel them is to escape. Escape into social media, videogames, addictions and so on. By escaping you can temporarily numb your emotions and the unconscious deep rooted shame attached to those animalistic desires.
Integrate your shadow: the only way to dissolve the brainwashing of shame attached to dark emotions is to work through the shadow. You have to find creative outlets to productively channel those dark emotions. A tiger that feels rage goes for a hunt, sprints like a fucking savage with adrenaline. You have to view yourself like an animal, those dark impulses are animal impulses. Rage is animalistic, envy is animalistic and lust for revenge is animalistic.
You have to integrate those dark emotions or remain a slave to unconscious habits that temporarily make you escape the shame attached to your darkness. Meditation allows us to work past the shadow, we learn to control those dark emotions and channel them creatively instead of destructively. Anger and rage for instance, can be channeled toward lifting weights at the gym or motivate you to take action with a business idea. Similiarly the emotion of envy can motivate you to become as good or better than someone else. If you envy a successful person, instead of projecting the envy onto him or her you can think "I really want what that person has, so I will work to achieve it".
Many people envy rich people because they are not rich. But the envy just grows, they find ways to justify why being rich is "bad" or whatever. When in reality: they can use the envy to feel motivated to earn money and think "I will work to become rich".
Attain Peace of Mind
More than anything else, meditation will help you clear mental fog and make you peaceful. Your thoughts will become clearer, you will think more creatively, abundantly and experience peace of mind. You will no longer be a victim of shadow emotions, you integrate and understand them which enables you to feel higher emotions of joy and compassion. If you make meditation an everyday habit this peace will continue to grow until you reach enlightenement, heaven or "nirvana*. Whatever you want to call it, you find a place of internal peace and bliss. This only happens after a long time of meditation though, it's not an overnight process. Meditation is a skill that takes time and practice to get really good at, it's a skill like any other skill. Most people quit meditating after a few weeks or months because they don't get all of the benefits and results they want. However, if they would meditate everyday for 6 months, and then a year, 2 years and three years. Their entire world view, health and energy levels would change for the better.
How To Meditate
The practice of meditation is very simple but at the same time very hard. I've been zen meditating for 3 years and i'm still learning to perfect my posture, my breathing pattern and present awareness.
The practice: simply sit down in the lotus position, close your eyes and pay deep attention to your breathing pattern and emotions. The full lotus position is impossible to achieve without doing deep leg stretching, so many people benefit from combining both meditation and yoga into their routine. Secondly, you have to create a routine. At a certain time everyday you sit down quietly for 15-30 minutes and meditate. By making it a routine you will continiously witness progress and not lose motivation. Rely on discipline when meditating, because you won't always feel motivated to do it.
Some people enjoy meditating in the sunrise, others at night time. Find what works for you and make it a routine, and stick with the routine for a minumum of 6 months before you decide to give up on meditation. Because meditation is a longterm committment, it takes time and practice to get good at.
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