Meditation In Love

Meditation Boosts Your Mind Power

I've been teaching meditation in my personal development workshops since 1996. The funny thing is, however, I would never have regarded it as meditation until one of my clients, who himself had been practicing meditation for many years prior to meeting me, suggested to me that my so-called 'mental exercises' were, in fact, guided meditations. Since then, I have explored meditation in great depth and now practice unguided meditation daily myself.The vast majority of the people who do my personal development workshop are business owners or top people in large organizations. The question must be asked: why would that kind of person have any interest at all in meditation? The answer is quite obvious when you understand what meditation is. Meditating brings discipline to their currently undisciplined mind. Meditation provides them with a practical training ground to develop their mental focus. Meditation enables them develop their ability to be present. Re-read those last couple of sentences - mental discipline, focus and presence are the outstanding hallmarks of all highly productive, highly effective, super-successful and happy people.Of course, there are plenty of people who simply avoid the whole subject of meditation because they do not understand what it's all about. Plenty of prospective clients will say things like "Meditation is not for me - I don't think that I could do it from a religious perspective!" or "Peace and love went out with Flower Power!" or "I'm not into relaxation, I have to be on the go all the time!" Meditation isn't the copyright of some sect of religion - it can, however, take you to a better spiritual understanding of yourself, if that's what you want from it! Meditation is not about 'peace and love' in the 'Flower Power' sense - it is, of course, about peace - the peace of mind that many people want but cannot find in today's crazy world - and it is also, of course, about love - getting to know the real you that you can really love - something that you must do before you can even claim to love someone else. And meditation is certainly not about relaxing - sure, you can feel peaceful and calm but it's the kind of mental calm that enables you take real action, swiftly, decisively, effectively.Let me get straight to the point. Meditation can enable anyone - and that includes you - to take control of their mind and change their business and personal lives. It's essential to come to terms with the fact that, as things stand, your currently undisciplined mind is in control of your life. You are not in control. In your default state of mind, your subconscious creates your version of reality by automatically dictating how you feel and how you behave. All this is done reactively. You must understand that this whole automatic response system will always, always prevent you from taking any real action. This means that the normal life is repetitive, habitual and routine. And that really does make me wonder how people think that they're lives are going to improve or be different. Nothing ever changes while you repeatedly keep doing the same thing!A focused mind, a clear mind, presence of mind and the resultant real action are the things that can truly change anyone's business life, career of personal life. If you cannot focus your mind you will never achieve anything worth talking about - you won't even be able to bring up your children to enable them be happy and successful adults. The key thing to understand is that this level of mental focus has an impact on every single aspect of both your own life and, indeed, all the other lives that you touch.So, do you want more of the same? Would you like to achieve effortless business success, career success, personal success and happiness? I've put the word "effortless" into that last sentence, firstly, because it grabs people's attention but secondly and more importantly, because it is true. A focused mind does the things that a normal mind wouldn't countenance doing with consummate ease - no effort, agonizing or struggle involved. A focused mind never does anything brave or courageous - it just takes the necessary action, no effort required. Only normal people look on this kind of real action as bravery or courage. A focused mind simply doesn't see any barriers that cannot be scaled. A mind that is fully focused simply lives life - in all its facets - to the full. And, unless you focus your mind, none of this can be yours!Meditation is a key tool in the successful person's toolbox. They may not even call it meditation, as I didn't, but they do it nonetheless. Thomas Edison called it "mental exercising" and top sports people call it deep breathing - watch them meditate before your very eyes on the sports channels. And the funny thing is that even some people who meditate misunderstand it too. In my many years working in this area, plenty of people who already meditate have told me that they would view their 'morning session' as something completely separate from every other aspect of their lives. The point is that the biggest benefit that anyone can get from meditation is the practical results that it can bring about in every aspect of your life. And, finally, in case you're wondering if science has anything to say on this, the breakthrough science of neuro-psychology is constantly confirming that meditation activates parts of the brain that are almost never otherwise activated. In fact, the only time these parts of the brain are activated would be the couple of times in our lives that we might have a spontaneous 'peak experience'!In short, meditation is rocket-fuel for an otherwise plodding mind. Couldn't you do with a little (or a lot) of that?Copyright (c) 2011 Willie Horton