What happens to my body when I meditate?

August 25th, 2010 by admin

“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.” ~ James Allen

Today I present another article by Kevin Schoeninger. I think you will find it interesting as he explains some of the things that are going on in the body as you meditate.

Increase Your Health, Happiness, and Success With Energy Meditation By Kevin Schoeninger

Energy psychology and energy meditation are becoming increasingly prevalent as tools for personal development and spiritual growth. An energetic viewpoint has been researched for over 3000 years in India and China. Today, modern physics and biology have joined the study. It is now known and accepted in the East and the West that “everything is energy.” From the computer that I am typing on, to the cells of our bodies, to the thoughts and feelings that we entertain-all is energy.

Why is this important?

An energetic view of reality means that our world is much more fluid and flexible than we once thought. Instead of being “hard inflexible matter” determined only by material forces, our world is made up of vibrating energetic possibilities. Our lives are far from determined by genes and brain chemistry.

The nature of reality as energy opens the way for us to consciously intervene to shape our life experience. Most importantly, elements of consciousness (intention, thought, feeling, and belief) are some of the most powerful forces in this energetic reality. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, consciousness, including our beliefs about what is real and possible, has as much as 100 times more power to affect our well-being than any “material” force including drugs and surgery.

Core Energy Meditation(TM) is an example of energy meditation. This practice teaches you to master the inner technology of consciousness by working with your internal energy system. To understand how this is so, let’s look a little more deeply into the nature of energy.

Think of the smallest units of matter as swirling tornadoes of energy or think of reality in terms of interactions of energetic waves. How we perceive these energetic forces makes them appear solid.

We find representations of the wave-like form of reality in many of our measurements of physical processes. An EKG read-out plots the wave-like form of your heart-rate. An EEG shows the wave-like patterns of the electrical activity in your brain. An audio mixer shows a visual read-out of sound waves. When you look at these patterns you’ll see that they have amplitude, frequency, clarity, and coherence.

Amplitude has to do with the intensity, or strength, of a wave pattern. A strong heartbeat or a loud sound has large amplitude. You can think of amplitude in terms of energetic strength or the intensity of effect that a wave can have in its surrounding environment. By practicing energetic meditation you will strengthen your personal energetic vibration so that it has a powerful effect in your life and in the world around you.

Frequency describes the number of wave cycles per unit of time. It is a measure of the quality of a wave-like vibration. You can observe the different qualities of different frequencies in sound waves. A low frequency note has a certain feel to it, while a high frequency note has another feeling altogether. We refer to different frequencies of different people or environments when we say that a person or a place has “good vibes” or “bad vibes.”

When we talk about frequency in energy meditation we’re referring to the feelings that we generate. In energy meditation you learn to shift into a state of positive feeling at will.

Clarity has to do with absence of noise or interference in an energetic system. Think of the sound wave example again. A sound comes through loud and clear when there is quiet in the surrounding environment. Your personal energetic vibration has clarity when you have effectively reduced subconscious interference.

In energy meditation you learn to focus on your positive energetic vibration and release yourself from the tensions, negative emotions, and limiting beliefs that interfere with the actualization of your best and highest potential. You learn to quiet the voices in your head so that you clearly sense your inner guidance.

Coherence has to do with the orderliness of a wave’s pattern. A system is coherent when all the parts are working together with integrated force. You can learn to strengthen, purify, clear, and align your energetic vibration so that you function internally as a harmonious whole. This enables you to be at your best in the outer world as well.

To give you an example of coherence in a physical system, a coherent respiratory pattern occurs when your in-breath and out-breath are approximately the same duration. The deeper you breathe (greater amplitude) and the more consistently your inhalation matches your exhalation (greater coherence) the stronger and more coherent your breathing pattern becomes.

A strong, coherent, breathing pattern will bring your heart-rate into coherence as well. A coherent heart-rate pattern is characteristic of a heart that is in good working order. When your heart-rate is coherent it also positively affects other wave patterns in your body such as your brain-waves. A coherent heart-rate tends to produce coherent brain-wave patterns.

This brings us to a most important point about the wave-like structure of energy:

When one energy system is strong, positive, clear, and coherent it tends to bring the other systems around it into a like state of coherence as well.

This effect is called resonance.

Resonance occurs when one energetic system vibrates in tune with another. Resonance is the basis of the Law of Attraction. Here’s the key to enabling the Law of Attraction to work for you: When you are able to raise your vibration into a state of strong, positive, clear coherence, you align the systems in your body to work together and you align the energies in your environment to work for you.

Because of the energetic nature of your existence, you have a phenomenal opportunity to consciously step into the energetic matrix of your life and transform your experience. Core Energy Meditation(TM) gives you the means to do just that.

You can check out Core Energy Meditation for no charge at http://www.CoreEnergyMeditation.com

Kevin Schoeninger graduated from Villanova University in 1986 with a Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He is certified as a Reiki Master Teacher, Qigong Meditation Instructor, and Personal Fitness Trainer. Kevin has worked with clients in the field of holistic fitness, meditation instruction, and spiritual growth for the past 27 years. He is Editor of SpiritualGrowthMonthly.com and the author of the “Learn Qigong Meditation Home Study Program,” “The Power of Practice Program,” and the visionary novel, “Trackings: A Message for the Third Millenium.” Kevin is also the developer of Core Energy Meditation. Kevin can be reached through his website: http://www.thepowerofpractice.com

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TODAY’S TIP: Make meditation a part of your life and your life will get better.

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