Contact with intelligent infinity is achieved through an understanding of the self in relation to others. It occurs when a person has sufficiently learned their lessons and balanced themselves enough that they may open themselves up to a more loving reality. It's not so much a crystallization of each energy center, but rather it is simply coming from a place within yourself where 'the choice' is made. Meditation is for the purpose of contacting the roots of the mind, as Ra puts it, by calming our cursory thoughts. I go through periods where I don't meditate at all. It has been maybe two weeks since I've last laid down to 'formally' meditate. I'm always in a state of deep contemplation, or existing in the present, so that tends to be just as effective.
I would agree that formal meditation doesn't need to be regular as long as you're continually in a conscious state of reception, or in other words, mindful of your thoughts and what they are teaching you. Silent contemplation is meditation at its most basic level, so if you are paying attention to your thoughts/actions in a walking meditative state so to speak, you'll benefit from that.
In terms of what formal meditation accomplishes, I've found that it can instantly reveal an insight, but generally speaking if you meditate regularly with the simple intention of laying silently with no necessity to totally reduce thoughts, the most significant impact seems to be occurring in the roots of the mind..at an almost unconscious level. Having thoughts flow through you won't affect the outcome.
So when you meditate, while you may feel centered and at peace, people tend to walk away from a meditation session thinking that nothing 'happened' or was revealed if they didn't receive some kind of insight. I've found that over a period of weeks or months, what was subconsciously realized in the roots of your mind seeps its way up into your conscious thoughts. So over time realizations seem to appear, but the path was cleared in meditation.
At times, when I meditate every day I feel like I'm receiving too much information as I seem to sense it on a subconscious level. So I actually take meditation breaks, where I won't meditate for a few days or even a couple of weeks. I never have a goal to lay down and meditate for two hours. If after 20 minutes I feel that is enough, I'm fine with it.
I would agree that formal meditation doesn't need to be regular as long as you're continually in a conscious state of reception, or in other words, mindful of your thoughts and what they are teaching you. Silent contemplation is meditation at its most basic level, so if you are paying attention to your thoughts/actions in a walking meditative state so to speak, you'll benefit from that.
In terms of what formal meditation accomplishes, I've found that it can instantly reveal an insight, but generally speaking if you meditate regularly with the simple intention of laying silently with no necessity to totally reduce thoughts, the most significant impact seems to be occurring in the roots of the mind..at an almost unconscious level. Having thoughts flow through you won't affect the outcome.
So when you meditate, while you may feel centered and at peace, people tend to walk away from a meditation session thinking that nothing 'happened' or was revealed if they didn't receive some kind of insight. I've found that over a period of weeks or months, what was subconsciously realized in the roots of your mind seeps its way up into your conscious thoughts. So over time realizations seem to appear, but the path was cleared in meditation.
At times, when I meditate every day I feel like I'm receiving too much information as I seem to sense it on a subconscious level. So I actually take meditation breaks, where I won't meditate for a few days or even a couple of weeks. I never have a goal to lay down and meditate for two hours. If after 20 minutes I feel that is enough, I'm fine with it.
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