If you decide on your intention prior to meditating, you are
now deliberately creating a space for yourself to receive your creation in. By
deciding your intention, you have a way to easily create something for
yourself. What you decide to create is totally up to you, it is not up to
anyone else unless you give them the power to suggest your meditation. For
example, you may go to some sort of class, and the instructor will suggest that
you are going to meditate on a specific subject. He or she is trying to get you
to use your own faculties creatively, although, he or she does not necessarily
understand that fact. They may simply want you to quiet down so they can
present the material that they have brought to be taught. They see it as a
control method, which it can also be. Often times, when students come into a
class, they can be excited; or when people go to a church, they are coming from
various households, various situations, various methods of transportation, and
to quiet them, as a ‘crowd control’, a prayer is said. The prayer or meditation
obviously has more than one usage, because many times you are asking for
something to happen in your meditation or your prayer. You can use meditation
as your own form of ‘crowd control’ when you have many thoughts crowding your
mind and you cannot seem to get to a quiet place. Using a consistent form of
meditation which then becomes somewhat of a habit is the easiest method for the
‘crowd control’ of your mind.
Whether you want peace of mind or an answer to a question,
both are something that you want to create and you want it to be relatively
quickly, so it is a form of instant creation. Some of your creations can take a
lifetime, while others can be instantaneous and meditation is a form of almost
instantaneous. In conclusion, if you choose to use meditation for yourself, we
suggest that you find something that you truly enjoy that is easy for you. It
can be as simple as a one line command, or as complicated as proceeding down a
flight of stairs, accompanied by a certain type of music, all the while
counting or reciting some long and involved phrase. It doesn’t matter, but the
easier and more enjoyable it is to you will lend itself to the ease of your
instant creation.
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