By Jamelle Zablow-Moloney
10, June, 2024
How many people have told you to meditate? I know your Reiki Master has, and probably your therapist, your doctor, your sister, and more, even if they don’t engage in the practice themselves! Why? Because there are thousands of years of evidence backing the practice.
By now, we all know that thoughts become things. Each thought creates a system of intelligent particles providing our cells with a chemical memory that gets stored in the body. This occurs with pleasant and unpleasant emotions, building our perceptions, our health, and our lives. Healthy thoughts and emotions provide our cells with balance, and in a balanced state, our body has full access to its self-healing abilities. Stress will do the opposite and keep us from those self-healing abilities innate to our bodies.
Persistent and long-standing stress and trauma are causes and symptoms of emotional memory that will, unless processed and released, hide in the central nervous system, joints, organs, and energy fields. This phenomenon causes energetic build-up, producing illness and creating brain fog. Meditation alone or with other therapeutic activities breaks this cycle.
Engaging in regular meditation practice provides a magical release for the nervous system. As we let all of our bodies, spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical, settle into deep relaxation, areas of particle build-up begin to dislodge from the nooks and crannies inside of us and flow down our energetic streams to rejoin the electrical current that sustains our life. This effect occurs when we sleep as well, but flows faster through meditation, as the conscious metacognitive exercise allows us the opportunity to acknowledge what is occurring in our minds, bodies, and etheric layers. This is how meditation turns pain into neutrality to create healing within. This is Seeking the Quiet Mind.
Seeking the quiet mind is a pathway of meditation that allows all of our human fallacies to lead to peace, release, and balance. See, attaching judgment to our reoccurring thoughts and memories can be helpful when the thoughts and memories are helpful. When they are not, that judgment re-strings those thoughts and emotions to our conscious mind, nervous system, and psyche, a cycle that keeps us from letting go. Seeking the quiet mind is the practice of seeing those thoughts as they come up, refraining from applying judgment, and letting them pass through the body and mind with total neutrality.
Easier said than done! Here are some tips and tricks that I hope will help you along your way to finding the consistency of motivation to engage in meditation practice:
Thoughts are tricky and sticky little things, and they come back! Heavy thoughts will come up time and time again. Let this natural process occur. We are called on to learn and release our biggest life lessons over and over until we really see them for what they are and really see ourselves for what we are. Meditation is a tool that helps us manage this cycle, heal through it, and change it, rather than live with the repetition indefinitely.
Let your long-term goal be to reach a quiet mind, and your short-term meditation goal be to simply stay in the practice for a dedicated amount of time each week. Practice daily or 3-4 times per week. If you struggle to hold attention and sit still, practice meditation for one minute at a time, and start building yourself up from there. Baby steps lead to mastery, and the benefits lead to a well-balanced future.
The most effective way to meditate is to do so for between 11 and 15 minutes at a time. Once the body hits the 8-10 minute mark of settling down, it enters into a deep relaxed state where healing begins. Small doses are effective, and longer doses are more so.
Let the thoughts flow out instead of pushing them back down or ignoring them. Thinking and noticing what you are thinking is a part of the metacognitive healing process.
When thoughts hang on and keep coming back, we know they need our attention. Set time aside for thought processing and therapeutic practices separately from meditation to make the healing process more gentle.
Meditation is flexible and can be used in many ways. If your jam isn’t to sit and seek the quiet mind, use it as an affirmation practice and recite your affirmations during mental down times throughout your day. For instance, when you’re sitting at a stop light, you have the opportunity to raise your emotional state for a solid 5 minutes with a meditative affirmation before green says GO!
During meditation, remind yourself that distraction is a part of the physical release process. You’re not doing it wrong, you’re doing it very right! See those thoughts for what they are, acknowledge them, and let them float away, even if they come back. Your meditation time is to support the cleansing process, and your therapeutic times are to support the understanding and learning processes.
Meditation becomes most effective for us when used consistently, working efficiently and quickly to change our lives regardless of the direction we want to go. Many practices provide us the means to reclaim our clear inner current such as eating clean, Yoga, Reiki, spiritual adventuring, breath work, and more, with Meditation rising at the top of the list due to its convenient accessibility to practice independently, anywhere, anytime. If you are looking for guided meditation, instruction, and/or coaching in the area, stop by for a visit!
Thanks for reading, and as always, Happy Healing!
Jamelle at Bare Roots Energy
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