InnerKnowledge

A common feeling that you may experience when starting to meditate is that of being anxious or nervous. First up, do not worry, as many people experience the same feelings when they do meditation, especially when starting or if they have had a gap or lapse in doing meditation.

When you first start meditation, you may feel uncomfortably awkward or out of kilter in some undefined way. This can be especially true if you lead a busy life, or there are lots of things which typically occur around you. These feelings are completely expected and a natural sensation as your mind has been used to the normal hustle and bustle of everyday life. The change of pace when you begin meditation can trigger feelings of anxiety or nervousness to name just a few.

If you do feel uneasy when practising meditation, then be aware it is your mind which is generating these sensations. It can be common for your mind to generate a FOMO (fear of missing out) as it attempts to re-establish its control over your life and your way of thinking.

There are several different ways to address your anxiousness when meditating. One obvious, but often overlooked method is to simply tell yourself that you are not anxious and it is just in your mind. Another effective way to help you feel less anxious is to simply lower your gaze to a spot on the floor or ground before you, rather than closing your eyes. Some other breathing techniques, such as Breathe with Purpose or Life-Force Meditation can assist you to become more comfortable when you start out meditating through the use of specially structured activities.

How many times have you become aware of the expression “You become what you think” or variants on the same concept? Your thoughts are more than simply thoughts, they are what guide you through life and define you. They shape your perspective of the world and those around us. If you believe you can be successful, typically, you will achieve some form of success. However, if you believe you will fail, then more often than not you will face challenges and not succeed. This does not imply that you are prophetic, it just means that you generally believe and act out what rattles around inside your head.

Your mind is a powerful tool when used correctly, but it can also be your own worst enemy. You may not know it, but for most people, your mind can play tricks on you. If you think you cannot do something, at that point you have set yourself up for failure. Before you have even begun you are questioning whether you will be successful, it is a formula for calamity.

Buddha stated, “The mind is everything. What you think, you become“. As you probably have picked up from the above paragraphs, there is an honest truth in this statement. It then follows that if you can control your mind, you can help to direct and guide the direction of your life. We live what we think about constantly. These thoughts might be intangible, however, their power lies in the way they affect and influence us. For every thought or action, there is a reaction or effect. This correlates to the observations made by Newton when he detailed his third law of motion. Realise that your thoughts and reactions all have effects and consequences. There is always an effect even if you do not witness the result. Your thoughts and reactions in life can result in an accumulation of emotionally charged energies within you. These energies can have damaging or detrimental effects on your body, sometimes bringing about illness.

We have the capacity to choose how we feel and to dictate how we will live our lives. That is why our thoughts are so significant, due to the fact that they determine virtually every element of our lives. You can either be shackled by your thoughts or set free by them. If you want to transform your thought process and improve your quality of life – you must take action. So begin to take control of your thinking and reactions to make sure that you only build beneficial energies of thought.

Thought is a rudimentary human function, and something everyone does daily. The human brain is made up of about one hundred billion neurones, which are interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. Each of these connections could be relaying anywhere between one and a thousand transmissions per second powering the basic biological engine of thought. That being said, are your thoughts beyond this biological process within your brain?

It is necessary to consider that the human brain is just part of an intricate system which entails the complete mental form. Thoughts arise not only as electrochemical connections of the brain but are present as electromagnetic impulses. Some cognitive researchers have started to perceive that thought is not confined to the brain, but simultaneously occurs in the brain and the body. It is this electromagnetic nature of thought, which enables it to spread through the brain, the body and our surroundings.

As thoughts are generated via an electromagnetic impulse, thoughts are in their very nature, formed of energy. Let us consider for a moment, that thought is created, and by so doing, you have actually placed within the thought your very own energy. On a fundamental level, you can regard the energy of thought as the biochemical energy which is derived from the metabolism of sugars within the neurones and glial cells of the physical brain. You should additionally regard the energy of thought as being the magnetic energies which flow through the mental form to enliven the thoughts generated in your physical brain. You have created thought with the combined energy within the brain and mental mind, and then because every little thing in the known cosmos is constituted from energy, then it stands to reason, thoughts are in themselves energies.

When focused with intent, your thoughts can be significantly more powerful, akin to light being concentrated by a magnifying glass. If, however, your thoughts lack focus, they may resemble light being transmitted through a prism or even being diffracted through the water. While light can be transited through a magnifying glass, a prism or a glass of water what happens to the light on the other side is very different. When the light passed through the magnifying glass, the multiple waves and particles of light are focused with greater intensity. Conversely, light transiting through the prism can be split up and separated, effectively reducing the overall intensity. Similarly, light traversing a glass of water can be distorted and scattered by the intervening components so that the light may no long bears recognisable as the original form.

These examples of light passing through various substances are comparable to your own thoughts. You can discover the skill of focusing your thoughts through the technique of Ekagrata rather than allowing your thoughts to become dispersed or scattered like the light in the previously mentioned example of the prism and glass of water.

The ability to be able to truly focus your mind is a key aspect of any practice relating to mindfulness or indeed any aspect of your life. The basic principle of Ekagrata is simply that of focusing your thoughts without concentration and maintaining that focus without allowing your mind or thoughts to drift off to other things. The same principle of focusing your thoughts is also important for those who wish to succeed in their practices of meditation or other more advanced techniques such as Cognition.

While many may talk of focusing your thoughts, it is important to comprehend that there is a subtle but important difference between focused thought (Ekagrata) and concentration. While concentration can seem similar to focusing, it often contains emotional aspects which can distort the thoughts resulting in an overall unsatisfactory result. So take the opportunity to discover how to focus your thoughts without concentration as this can help you in so many ways.

Throughout the ages, adepts of every time and place have achieved higher levels of an awakening of their Life Force through the understanding of colour and sound as a fundamental key to the energies of life. Hidden within many aspects of the Kabbalah are the keys to accessing such energies through the combination of sound, colour, number and vibration. Such knowledge provides a means of understanding how colour and sound interplay providing keys to the energies of life.

Our posts and information focus on the work relating to you as an individual, rather than to become enthralled in aspects of ontology. This allows you as the student, to comprehend how you function as an energy being and the steps which can be taken, as an individual, to progress and awaken your Life Force.

To fully realise the complexities of the mind, you must change your preconceptions about it. The mind is composed of many different energy levels and sub-levels through which your persona is manifest as one complete unit. The level of mind you use and communicate through, is equal to the thought patterns you allow to manifest within your mind at any given time. Realise that your mind fluctuates and uses many sub mental levels and mental levels throughout any given day.

Sunya from the Sanskrit language relates to zero, representing emptiness and void or blank. At the same time, sunya represents the possibility of producing all things. Everything starts at zero, including knowledge, business, reputation, wealth, and so on. Sunya does not symbolise the discontinuous, but symbolises the limitlessly latent potential of your Life Force.

The human brain is comprised of roughly one hundred billion neurones, which are thereupon interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. Each of these associations may be relaying between one and a thousand transmissions per second, to fabricate the process which we equate to as thoughts or ideas in the physical brain.

To fully comprehend your thinking, it is necessary to appreciate that the human brain is just part of a complex system which entails the entire cognitive form.  Your thoughts become manifest, not merely as electrochemical connections of the brain, but also as electromagnetic impulses. Some cognitive scientists have started to acknowledge that thoughts are not confined to the brain, but concurrently occur in the body as well as the brain. It is this electromagnetic nature of thoughts and ideas, which enable them to spread through the brain, the body and the environment around us.

Few of us comprehend, how deeply we have become involved with our thoughts and emotional reactions. Being so involved, we never have the opportunity to consider that it is our mind, which governs much of our life through seemingly unconscious reactions. You have the choice of sliding into pre-programmed patterns of thinking, excuses and the emotional reactions or changing your reactions. You can pause, stay in control, and reflect on how thoughts or emotions may be affecting you. Then act with active intelligence to achieve the best outcome.

The omnipotent Universal Force permeates all things and manifests to keep them vital, without which, all matter would decay into nothingness. The Universal Force is within all time and space, being the limitless creative energy of perfect harmlessness. Learning how to harmonise with the Universal Force brings forward the fullest state of illumement attained through cognition.

We are immersed underneath the weight of data and information, which is being mistaken as knowledge. The truth of which can sometimes be questionable and the quantity is being confused with abundance. True knowledge can open your mind to broaden the understanding of yourself. The knowledge of your true self in all its minutiae, nuances and subtleties is the key greater awareness. Through such knowledge, you may well obtain an understanding of who you truly are and of why you think and behave how you do.

The progression of knowledge from potential to actual is activated by the energies of your Life Force and the intuition within. It is through your intuition working from your Life Force that you can comprehend those hidden truths which evade sensual observations and rational opinions.

All knowledge comes about through the union of the human mind and active intelligence. Inner knowledge can open your mind to expand the understanding of yourself. It can bring forth illumination to your life with a realisation of the tremendous hidden potential within each of us.

One of the aspects of attunement, awakening or meditation which is often overlooked by those starting on the journey, is the importance of knowing yourself.

If you do not understand yourself, your thoughts, emotions, reactions, aspirations and fears, then you will always struggle to be in harmony within yourself. Any form of awakening or meditation will lead to an inevitable increase in the energies of your true self. As these energies increase within you, if left unchecked, they can cause issues as they feed your own emotions, reactions and fears. If you do not know yourself, you may seek to blame others for your problems, when in fact the challenges are within you caused by the awakening of your own inner energies feeding aspects hidden deep within your own persona.

Without this knowledge of yourself, you cannot know who you appear to be, even though you are you. This is a paradox, to say the least; but one which must be overcome.