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Meditation is important to many Wiccans/Witches. Meditation can be hours spent sitting quietly in a trance, it can also be spending 5 minutes while in the bath talking to the God or the Goddess. On this page, I have listed some different meditation styles. If you have never meditated before, try it, it can be extremely calming, healing and helpful in times of stress and worry.
Why Meditate?
I've had so many people ask me this question. There are many answers to this
question. The following 5 I feel would be the most important:
1. To gain an understanding of ones inner most self.
2. To establish a well grounded connection between yourself and the universe in which we
dwell.
3. To access more of our potential on the plains of reality, spirituality, our conscious
and unsconcious plains.
4. To develope an inner peace of tranquility and onesness.
5. To seek what we have known and lost, to recover and perserve that knowledge.
These are just a few of the reasons that there is an absolute neccessity for meditation.
To strive for an uplifted plato of inner peace and the ability to learn throught untainted
realms. Which will allow us to deal with and understand the world and its creatures.
MEDITATION for Beginners
For the basic practice of Breath Counting one must realize althought this practice sounds
simplified and even silly, it takes practice and commitment to learn how to focus your
mind on a single task. Our minds have always been allowed to roam at will, random thought.
This exercise will teach you control on focused objectives. This practice not only allows
you to train your mind, it also has great positive psychological and physiological
effects.
Breath Counting
I would suggest to start at 15 minute practice session and build up as you feel
comfortable. I can't stress enough the importance of regular practice habits. You will
obtain the best results if you practice daily. Set a time out where there will be not
interruptions...turn off the phone, if you have pets go to a room where you may close the
door away from them. You may lit some incense and play soft instrumental music if you like
(I don't recommend the music in the beginning of training, sometimes it can be
distracting).
1. You will need to set your alarm clock for 15 minutes, wrap it in a blanket or towel so
the alarm will not startle you when it goes off.
2. Position yourself in a comfortable postion, it may be sitting, laying or standing. Just
remember you will be in this position for 15 minutes.
3. Relax....you will start to count you exhales to the count of four. (each exhale is one
count) then start from one again. Keep repeating this count untill the 15 minutes is up.
Your goal is to focus on your breath count...when other thoughts start to enter your mind
don't become upset, just gently pull your thoughts back to your counting...if you lose
count just start your count at one again. You will be suprised how many thoughts will
trickle in and you will drift into them...remember to just gently pull yourself back to
the task of your Breath Count.
The Path by means of Intellect
This path appeals to many including mystics. You use your intellect for a more directed,
focused understanding of your thought process and your will. This is what I refer to as
"a single thought awakening" persay a mergeing of thought and will awareness.
This may be achieved by training yourself to block out random thoughts. It takes time, but
the benefits are priceless. You will gain clearer insight to your goals/objectives. A
crisper look at the two realities. The Breath Counting is an example of focus training.
The Path by means of Emotion
This pathway to meditation is less structured and more
concentrated upon ones feelings and ones impressions of
those feelings. Through concentrating on your feelings
on any given thing, be it person, object or problem. You gain
an insight of yourself through deep evaluations of your
impressions of those feelings. Using this path you gain a
better understanding of the innerself which in turn will give
you a better means to understand others. When we can understand
ourself, at that point we begin to learn to love and care for
ourself, through this nurturing we are then capible of
understanding,loving and careing for others.
A thought to ponder... the next time you start to say " I
know
exactly how you feel" to someone...ask yourself, "do I really"?
Some times we are so engulfed in the world and the fast pace
around us, we begin to become numb to our true feelings
when dealing with others..so stop for a moment and just feel
your own feelings, touch what is really you.
We don't lose ourself...we become blinded and numb...
therefore uncentered and fragile. To love someone, one must
love himself...if you don't understand yourself and your inner
feelings, you will have difficulty understanding, caring and
loving others.
The Path by means of the Body
This pathway to meditation is for one to learn to be aware of one's body
and it's movements. To heighten this awareness during meditation. This awareness totaly
engulfs the concsciousness to the point of excluding anything else. This is commonly
performed through dance. It is not common in the Western countries. It is well known and
practiced in the East. For example Hatha Yoga, T'ai chi and Dervish dances of the Sufi
(mystical)traditions. It is believed that if a person is consumed in dance, one becomes
whole with himself. It is believed that one being completely absorbed in one concentration
(the dance), this intergrates and strengthens ones personality.
The Path by means of Action
This path deals with the learning of how to "be". How to perceive
and how to relate to the world while performing a specified type of task or skill. For
example in archery, to become the arrow. It is a form of deep and total concentrated
thought on the task at hand.
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