Positivity: Meditation
Meditation can do a lot of good.
We live in a world of almost endless noise. Everywhere we turn we are inundated with information, with calls for help, action, and choices to be made. People often can’t just be content with the sounds of nature and carry music or employ some other distraction. Noise everywhere.
Mediation is often misunderstood. The word alone, for many, conjures images of people sitting cross-legged, palms up, chanting “Om” repeatedly. This is a valid form of meditation, but by no means the only one.
Meditation is taking time-out to let your thoughts just flow about while you work to connect with source energy. You try to find balance, find stillness, find a connection to the Universe. It is not necessarily quieting your mind, but that is frequently an effect of the practice. Meditating can change your state of being.
Some people do meditate cross-legged in the classic lotus position. Some meditate from a chair. Some people meditate lying down. Eyes closed or focused on a single point, you focus on your breathing, or a noise or music in the background, or energy flowing into your body, or some combination of all these. You connect to something more out there, and as such you connect more with you.
This is an amazing means to generate positivity in our lives. We can use meditation to work out unpleasant thoughts and negative energy and draw in happy thoughts and positive energy. Once you have taken the time to begin meditation, you can thoroughly build from that foundation.
Meditating gives focus, can clear the mind, and opens channels to different energies. This is an opportunity to create new positivity. This can be a really simple but effective means to an end.
Yes, everybody is busy, and yes, time as we perceive it is frequently at a premium. But it is not necessary to spend all that much time in your day, relatively speaking, to meditate. All of the studies and medical and scientific and metaphysical experts say that even a few minutes a day is seriously good for our mental health.
Finding just five minutes in the sixteen plus hours you’re awake every day to meditate may seem challenging, but the reward in positivity you can build with that short but powerful span is worthwhile. In a world full of so much negativity, we could all use more tools to generate greater positivity.
Every tool we can employ to make our lives better can be used to make our world better overall. Taking time to connect with source energy is a stronger connection with yourself. The connection with the self that comes with meditation, whatever form you choose, is pretty magnificent. When we connect more with ourselves, the connections we have with others only get stronger.
Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that everyone can practice meditation, and that it is a relatively simple act requiring not much time at all, we can make use of meditating to generate positivity. When we close out that noise and focus on connecting with source energy, we better empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.
This is the one hundred thirty-first entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.
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