(07-14-2021, 01:24 PM)Ming the Merciful Wrote: The other mistake that people make, is to put Spirituality onto a pedestal. As if it was some greater higher force, and something that cannot be achieved. Spirituality and Physicality are the same thing, except on different levels of vibration. We set ourselves goals, and a point which we want to achieve, (and therefore I become Enlightened). Or, a sudden Spiritual discovery or understanding becomes a milestone, and is seen as a great achievement. It can also be a downfall, because it can be a point where we stop investigating further and deeper. It is the same with Meditation. We develop unhealthy habits and expectations that a specific goal must be overcome, and deeper Meditations. The purpose of Meditation is to find Inner Stillness and reach the Higher Consciousness. It then becomes repetitive and a sameness, and the original goal at the beginning has become lost in the analytical theories we create to explain what is happening, (or not happening). The best way to overcome this, is to vary the forms of Meditation we use. I use the Still Mind technique, and I am happy with that. Other people prefer Mantras, and my advice for that, is the vary the Mantras, so that it does not become repetitive. Accept your Physicality. It is you. You will never overcome your Physicality by denying it. When you are rejecting your Physicality. in an indirect sense, you are also denying yourself. The complete person is both Physical and Spiritual, and we must create a balance between the two aspects of ourselves.
Before i wake up i was not spiritual at all and today it is not easy for me to define the state of meditating.
It is difficult for me to have "strictly" meditation or to do it in a regular way, although i know more discipline would help me.
So it is always more a spontaneous work mostly walking in the nature.
There is a big intuition that let me visit and walk to places that help me to get into contact with the earth / gaia / group consciousness.
In addition to this there is the existance of the observer, that i have described in different posts, pointing out the different layers of existance and angles of view (like the time).
This observer can be helpful to distinct between thinking, feeling and willing.