Who doesn't meditate and why?

[Dtris]

Thanks guys, very interesting to hear about people’s journey of meditation.

So what do you guys think the difference between thinking, contemplation and meditation as discussed in the Law of One?

I learned to meditate in my teens, did so off and on without regularity for twenty years and thought I didn't need it, or I was already great at it. Then this year I decided to meditate daily since Hatonn kept saying how important it is. IME he is right. My life has only gotten better since I started daily meditation.

Now the second question quoted above. Thinking is our typical intellectual thought. Contemplation is an intuitive non-verbal thought. Meditation is the clearing of the mind or the focusing on one thing. Each has its place and there is overlap as well.

What is your style of meditation and as for contemplation what do you get into that state or is meditation contemplation for you

I mainly do qigong meditation in the school of Dr. Yan Xin. I also have experimented with some other systems. The contemplation sometimes happens during meditation but not usually. When contemplating you should have a subject or question and then you clear your mind of internal dialogue and let the ideas and concepts come to you about the subject.

[Navaratna]

Look at this, this is a channel that shows enormous gathering of sahaja yoga practitioners.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGvK0j...Rjw/videos

I remember watching a video of a gathering in Russia I think it was in Moscow or Togliatti where they have hundreds of people on bleachers and they lit a bonfire so that everyone could meditate on it at once. Imagine the tremendous psi energy being focused in that place.

They call their groups collectives indicating their collective consciousness.

[TheAmbiguousSod]

I meditate almost daily. I do a silencing meditation and a loving kindness meditation which is part of my practice for channeling love into the Earth.

Just a reminder, you don’t have to sit and be quiet to meditate, what is important in my opinion is that you connect with the creator on some level and allow the thinking mind to be the less dominant mind. I like to walk in nature and take really small and slow steps, my mind slows down without effort and I see so much more. Every flower and big jumps to life, each step I take feels dense and vibrant.

Just checking in to see how you’re feeling can be useful too. Is there stress present? Where do I feel it? What does it feel like? Will it hurt me to leave it sitting here?

I’m no master and I wouldn’t claim to be successful at meditation but the benefits are invisible and infinite. I have a personality disorder which means my amygdala, the emotional progressing part of the brain, is underdeveloped. I can react emotionally and my cooling down period from emotions can be significant compared to the healthy brain. I read that Buddhists who meditate for a long period of time, as in years not hours, have larger amygdala and hippocampus.

Meditation has allowed me to develop space in between action and reaction, it forces me to slow down, put life into perspective and to connect to the creator.

If you attempt to meditate for a single minute and feel unsuccessful, please try again and know that you have succeeded in trying. The attempt is what is important. Trust in the creator to have made it possible for you to achieve everything you wanted. This isn’t designed for us to constantly struggle and be unsuccessful.

[AnthroHeart]

I meditate with my intention repeater. It's a very powerful manifestor.

I have this big script I run of sending euphoria to a lot of things where it's needed and healing the earth.

Some pretty powerful shamanic stuff.

It's like saying a prayer a million times per second.

[Black Dragon]

As somebody who's cognitively oriented with a busy mind and Asperger's, I find meditation in most traditional senses a bit more difficult than the "average person" or some other wanderers, but I do make time sometimes for meditations of different sorts. Most often it's of the sort that's more contemplation and reflection, but other times I find it healthy to forego this type in favor of simply quieting the mind and focusing on the "space between thoughts" and silence to the best of my ability. Another type I've used from time to time that's sort of in between is just letting my thoughts flow freely and observing them with detachment to the best of my ability.

I don't really do anything fancier than these basic types of meditation, and I don't do them necessarily every day. Sometimes I'm more or less successful, but I haven't reached any really deep type of states this way. Sometimes when quieting my mind and entering the space between thoughts, I start to see fractals, which is something that happened naturally at a very young age and kind of got suppressed. My third eye was much more open as a child than it is now.

[dexter101]

i dont meditate anymore. i think meditation is only for very healthy people. mentally and physically speaking. it is a spiritual kind of weightlifting and my back is broken. my chakras are so out of balance its going to take a while to fix them back together. i honestly think this to be the case for most people and for wanderers yea it might be good to meditate but unless you absolutely know that you are one i personally would spend more time on the chakras. meditation is very powerful and a lot of people sadly severely underestimate it.

[AnthroHeart]

I meditate again, but usually it's an energy exchange with others. I give them something they might not have, and get something I might not have.
Usually with higher density beings.