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What is Meditation? ~ How the Brain is Monitored ~ Mantras ~ Prayer
What is Meditation?
Carried to its ultimate conclusion, meditation is learning to live naturally and to be in contact and control over oneself. Living naturally means being sensitive to nature's in born resources and innate intelligence. Being in control means having control of the inner levels of your mind.

The practice of meditation can be simple, or complex, depending on one's needs at any time in one's life. Generally meditation is accomplished by using one or more techniques to withdraw the five senses and the mind from its attention to the outside world and to make contact with the higher self.

In Metaphysical science we generally use and teach the meditation of inner contact and also the guidance meditation for affirmation and to control the different levels of mind through changing the thought pattern in order to become outwardly successful and positive.

Sooner or later, through the practice of meditation, the serious student will discover what true Spiritual Reality is.

It will be seen as Christ saw it, as Buddha saw it and as Krishna saw it, AND OTHER GREAT PROPHETS. The word Spiritual will take on a meaning and definition by the practitioner that is by and large quite different from the orthodox Christian view.

The orthodox Christian view has only taught the outer crust of Christ's teachings, and in so doing, has missed the fundamental teaching of Christ, which was the contact with one's innermost Self through the practice of meditation. Unless one has experienced higher state of consciousness within oneself, and has integrated that consciousness into conscious daily life as positive personality patterns, they have little true frame of reference from which to teach or comment on spiritual truth, inclusive of so many spiritually blind religious fanatics.

Meditation then brings one to the most positive self-image of oneself. Through a multitude of meditational experiences of the innate spiritual level of one's mind. The student of meditation discovers life's innermost mysteries. The discovery of such mystery comes from contact meditation or mystical meditation.

The truth learned from uncovering such mysteries of self and life become the basis, psychologically and philosophically, for the techniques of control meditation or guided meditation that deals with success in one's outer life in the Metaphysical Science teaching of meditation.


How the Brain is Monitored
Every second trillions of neurons in your brain are firing their electrical impulses. Like most regular, repeated impulses in nature, these neuronal firings naturally organize themselves into rhythmical patterns, or waves.

Like all other waves, brain waves occur at varying speeds, or ‘ FREQUENCIES'. There are four frequencies of brain waves.

BETA WAVES are the most common brain waves, and they occur at the highest frequencies. We experience beta waves during our waking moments.

ALPHA WAVES are slower in frequency, and occur when we are in a mild state of relaxation. A lack of this brain wave indicates anxiety and stress.

THETA WAVES are about two to four times slower than beta waves, and reflect the meditative state, which lies between wakefulness and sleep. Often when people experience this wave they gain information in their subconscious mind. Become very creative and access their dreams. Theta brain waves combine a pleasant, relaxed feeling with extreme alertness.

DELTA WAVES occur when you are asleep; they are the slowest brain waves.

As you can see, the brain waves that offer the most potential for enhanced cognition are theta waves, the waves that come from meditation.

Mantras ; What they are and how they work
Over two thousand years ago, Patanjali set down his highly celebrated yoga sutras, which were designed to guide seekers to the highest state of awareness, known as SIDDHI consciousness. Patanjali is considered, by millions of people who have studied his yoga sutras, to be the greatest scientist of the inner world to have ever lived.

Patanjali offered this advice to students seeking the power of the highest state of consciousness; ‘REPEATE AND MEDITATE ON AUM ‘, Aum is a symbol for the universal sound of creation. Patanjali explained that when the body is left, the mind disappears and what is heard is the sound of Aum. Repeating this word, the sound causes the disappearance of obstacles and an awakening of a new higher consciousness that is the creative force. When we practice this mantra we become the universal sound itself. The sound of a mantra is the sound of God and therefore brings you to the power of being the co-creator of you life. The act of creation itself is a sound. When understood and put to use, sound will heighten your awareness of the Siddhi consciousness within you.

Prayer
The sense of peace, well-being, and spiritual understanding appears to be of tremendous value to those who experience it, One major study of prayer found that people who have a subjective sense of connection to God get more psychological support from that connection than from any other element in their lives, including material possessions and even their spouses. Engaging in prayer improves objective measures of physical health. This is quite understandable of course, since a subjective sense of well-being virtually always contributes to physical health.

In a prayer treatment used in Metaphysics the prayer is always of the affirmative kind and can be used for the patient on a one to one basis or in distance Healing. We always see the patient as being divine and therefore perfect, the practitioners work is to bring about this perfection into form by the use of this powerful treatment of prayer.

If you do not believe that a Divine spirit answers prayers, perhaps you might believe that some prayer could be perceived through extra sensory perception.

I however believe that it is much more profound than this and that by uniting our consciousness with this Divine Spirit we can affect the realities of our lives. Therefore when you pray for your patients you are connecting them to the Divine Power, and that by doing this you are invoking the loving, healing energy.