Many people want to practise spiritual meditation in today’s world. This is a
wonderful thing and can bring you great benefit. But before you start your practise
it is important to understand just what it is you want to achieve from your meditation
as not all result are the same. There are so many spiritual meditation techniques on
offer today that it is easy to get confused and misguided, leaving you frustrated and
in many cases causing you to give up altogether. So, depending on what you want,
there will be an appropriate practise. You just have to be clear on this, then you can
find the correct spiritual meditation method, and with that you will have made the
first important step.
To help you define what it is that you want from your spiritual meditation exercises
the Saints and Sages of India have expressed that there are only two areas in
which your meditation can fall into – one is the material, physical and psychic world,
and the other is the spiritual one. Or you could say, there is the practise of various
material meditations and the practise of various spiritual meditations.
The first area, material meditation, includes meditating for such things as stress
release, mental health, physical wellbeing and psychic power. To achieve these
goals practises can include stilling your mind through listening to sound, focusing
on light or colours, observing your thoughts, pranic breathing, repeating Vedic
mantras and so on.
According to the Sages, material meditation in all its entirety can have only one
significant outcome – continued bondage to the material world, ever rotating in
the wheel of birth and death. In this category, complete knowledge of the self is
impossible. You may gain benefit from these practises but they are only temporary
relief from the physical and mental strain of daily life. These short-lived benefits can
be very good, but have nothing to do with your spiritual evolution.
The second area are those daily spiritual meditations that relate to the essence
of your very being – your ‘self’ known as the soul, and to the Soul of souls, God.
It is the practise of guided spiritual meditation that provides passageway to
experiencing the blissful nature of the soul. And it is in fact the soul itself that
enables your eyes to see, your ears to hear, your nose to smell, your mind to
function and so on. Such is the depth and importance of your soul that it gives
consciousness to your entire body, including your mind. It is, by its very nature,
blissful. Through correct understanding and correct meditational practise, this can
be realised and understood.
The Saints and Sages advise us to look after our bodies through exercise and
healthy food, and they advise us to look after our soul by nurturing its spiritual
power through carefully understood meditational practise.
Spiritual meditation will automatically, along with revealing your blissful self,
bring you mental health and stress release. It will also inspire you to eat well and
exercise your body. In fact, it will in time provide you with everything you need.
Material meditation cannot do this because it does not reach to the deepest nature
of you, your soul.
On my website I have provided you with a spiritual meditation cd that is a form
of spiritual meditation music that comes to you by way of chanting known as
Kirtan. To sample this, and to get you started, download a free spiritual meditation
chanting track.
