The end goal behind Meditation is to take our attention away from the mind and back to the Soul. Only a few will take it to that level, however the benefits from Meditation outweigh not Meditating. Personally important not only in life but the afterlife as well. 

Meditation strikes a balance between the mind and Soul. It does that by withdrawing our attention away from the mind, which is an exercise in attention control. The power to do that has always been ours but the mind uses our attention on life. Our power of attention is ancient and part of our Being but entangled within the mind to survive. The techniques in Meditations are designed to untangle it or at least give us a break from total mind dominance. The idea behind Meditation is to focus our attention on something that doesn’t involve the mind. Meditating not only has the highest spiritual value, it also benefits us in the daily grind.

We need enough knowledge to know the purpose and enough knowledge to know how it’s done.

We have inactive and active Meditations that can calm the mind down to the thoughtless state. In life we unknowingly access the thoughtless state all the time in short and long intervals. In Meditation we need to do the same thing but without visuals or thinking which makes it difficult. That’s why we use bells, bowls and mantras to occupy our attention on something else.

Active Meditation helps with spiritual guardrails keeping us spiritually in-tune.

Active Meditations are not as productive as inactive, but will have a similar effect when we put our attention directly on what we are doing. Active yoga uses stretching and balance for the feel of stretching and balancing, many actions do that like weightlifting, painting and mundane chores. Any time a thought rises during active Meditation we are not in the moment until we bring it back to doing, so it can be rather difficult. The same with inactive Meditation when a thought rises, we need to keep redirecting our attention to the technique to keep Meditating. The high-performance zone in sport, art and music (to name a few) is the highest form of active Meditation when our attention falls back inside in order to let the well-trained body act intuitively on instincts without forethought or thinking. It’s a natural and easy syncing that lasts for longer periods of time. When we are spiritual doing the mind will interfere and when we keep directing our attention on doing it’s an exercise in control.

There are many different types of sitting Meditations designed to pull our attention away from thinking. When we start with beginning Meditations we need to keep advancing to different techniques in order to attain different types of attention control. Especially with beginner Meditations like guided visuals, or any technique that uses the mind. Control is hugely beneficial, so we have to keep progressing. 

I started with kundalini yoga by directing my attention to areas on the body, that’s where we feel the power of attention because it controls energy wherever it goes. I moved on to Nisarga yoga which is the natural Meditation of just witnessing the inner sounds and energy of the body making it conducive for the merge with consciousness, the samadhi state. That is a beautiful, sweet spot in Meditation when energies and sounds of the body smoothly melt into a mass that is in sync and still, no mind, no body, no sounds, no boundaries just a solid mass of consciousness, the doorway to Eternity! 

The power of Attention.

We need to know the mind is a tool for the Soul and not the other way around, but the mind needs our attention too. We take control of our attention in small steps when we Meditate, and when we move up to different techniques our attention gets different levels of movement. If we can Meditate with no techniques and in a thoughtless state of Being our attention is gaining the power of independence, and there’s a perceivable distance between our attention and the mind.

In a deep state my attention goes up to think, that means we are before the mind.

There are plenty of setbacks on any path. On the positive side Meditation its free and done on free time, available to everyone and you can do it anywhere, I made it unnoticeable in public.

In the end we have to surrender the mind which is everything we think we are to the Cause. Life in the universe has an end clause so it should be treated as such.

My do or die attitude was there because of my relationship with Yogiraj Maharishi who showed me enlightenment is real and attainable. That’s the only carrot I needed and after that it’s practicing the fine art of meditation. Even though our meditations seem to go nowhere we are slowly working towards attention control the whole time.

In the afterlife if we want to be Eternal we need to go back to Meditation, by retracting our attention away from what we see when free floating because dreams are part of the minds makeup and that continues. It’s important to know we are not the mind, spirits or human. In the afterlife if we don’t voluntarily give up on the mind domination by ignoring all images, we won’t see Eternity. We are the Eternal Soul, and the mind is a product of time. If we let it dominate us, we won’t find Eternity and we will most likely go down with it, but if we release it the connection will still be there. 

In life and afterlife that what we observe is not who we are, in Eternity, that what we observe is who we are.

We need to practice the art of Meditation because our Attention is Eternal and useable in Eternity.