Mindful Meditation

In our daily lives we often face complexity, difficultness, pressure and other forms of stress, creating a wide array of anxiety. This has been a part of our routine each day as we wake up in the morning. We are so busy doing things that we forget how to find peace of mind to help us get relaxed and be calm as we indulge in the facets of our daily living.
Looking for peace of mind is very hard because our mind is bombarded with negative thoughts, restless disturbing worries, that we cannot find the calmness we need that gives us freedom from fretfulness that eventually leads to a state of happiness, contentment and pleasure. In this book, we would take you to a journey on how to find the tranquility you’ve always wanted using a great power called Mindfulness Meditation. 

Meditation is defined as a state of mind in which you focus on a certain object that enables you to practice your attention in a single thing – something like a word or a phrase, a geometrical figure, a candle flame, or simple actions such as inhale and exhale. We all experience a stressed environment; the source could most probably come from work, family issues or social interactions with individuals you meet. This technique allows you to find different methods and practices to assist you finding your inner peace within yourself. A lot of various schemes are available to aid finding such harmony and serenity, but with Mindfulness Meditation, you will embark in things that relatively have something to do with your cognitive perception. It’s a cognitive condition per say because it has been proven scientifically that the stress you encounter within the torments and agony of life has nothing to do with you but how your mind responds on these phenomenal things.
Have you ever heard of the Mountain of Meditation? It’s a metaphor used in depicting the journey to tranquility, the summit serves as the goal towards peace and calmness. Are you ready to climb the mountain? Well, you need to consider  different factors in reaching the top – one of this is the path to the top and how you will manage it. You choose your own path right? Climbing the mountain has many trails, path that may gradually lead you to the forest and meadows, path that may include a steeply uphill over dry, rocky terrain, others may have flowers and vast garden; and other you may see farmlands and a dessert. Terrains that may help you realize certain things and would hinder you from going up to the top and pursuing your journey. Embarking on this kind of journey sets you into your limitations and as well as your choices, who knows that you find your tranquility in the low peaks of the mountain and decides not to continue anymore, whatever your destination, you can have fun and reap the benefits of inner peace as you go along the voyage. The Mountain of Meditation has been climbed by individuals for over thousands of decades in poles apart. With this, great books has been published, each suggesting on what to bring and how to hike the great mountain. Most of the books coddles with a description of a spiritual path engaging a set of beliefs that has been passed on generations. Others convey the feelings which are experienced as you go along and upon reaching the summit.
 The following are techniques developed over the past years (or metaphorically defined as the path and terrains):

•   Repeating 3 meaningful words or phrases.
  
•   Mindful awareness of the present moment.
  
•   Counting your breath
  
•   Paying attention to the flow of sensations in your
  body.
  
•   Cultivation of love, kindness, compassion,
  forgiveness, and other healing emotions.
  
•   Concentration on geometric shape or other visual
  objects.
  
•   Visualizations of a peaceful place of healing energy
  or entity.
  
•   Reading and reflecting upon inspirational or
  sacred writings.
  
•   Gazing at a picture of a holy being or a saint.
  
•   Chanting praises to the Divine.
  If you are able to reach the summit of the meditation mountain, you can garner extreme feelings of emotional harmony involving Love, Harmony, Wisdom and Joy. Others call it as the source of Divinity, giving the whole new
  

meaning to Holiness. Some says it’s the ultimate truth, and some individuals define this as a spiritual tradition which is considered to be sacred and powerful enough that they hesitate to give it a name. Great entities reaching the summit make use of the words Enlightenment - from ignorance, Awakening - from a dream, Liberation - from bondage, Freedom - from limitation, and Union - with God. You may say that its very hard to climb the Mountain of Meditation but still will try to pursue such summit, and no matter how and what path you take, the truth is that you can reach the top with the same basic instruction, although you need to choose your destination. To help you find the strength and courage to reach the summit, these are the following stop over’s en route to the summit:

•   Stronger focus and Concentration.
  
•   Reduced tension, anxiety, and stress.
  
•   Clear thinking and less emotional turmoil.
  
•   Lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
  
•   Support in kicking and other self-defeating
  behaviors.
  
•   Greater creativity and enhanced performance in
  work and play.
  

•   Increased self-understanding and self-acceptance.
  
•   More joy, love, and spontaneity.
  
•   Greater intimacy with friends and family
  members.
  
•   Deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
  
•   Glimpses of a spiritual dimension of being.
  Looking at these great destinations, you may actually think that they are worth reaching and satisfying. You can also experience contentment during your journey halfway after you diminish your stress, improved your health and feel the greater well – being. Or, somehow, you may feel more inspire that you decides to move forward for higher heights as the great entities defined.
  Imagine that there’s a spring of water flowing in the summit of the mountain and never runs dry, you may depict this as the water of purity. Those who get to the top of the mountain earns the right to indulge the purity of the water and immerse themselves completely with the water. Imagine that that impeccable spring rushes from the mountain downwards the hills and the forest below the summit, meaning, you also don’t have to reach the summit just to
  

take and experience this kind of purity since you can taste your being everywhere, in everything, since being is the essence that keeps life going in all forms and in every level. Until you start providing yourself the great meditation, then you may not know what being tastes like. When you meditate, even if you can’t taste the water just yet, your being feels closer to the water, then suddenly you can recognize the taste of the purity within.