Many people want to know, ‘but, which style of meditation is right for me?’
Here’s the answer in a nutshell: The meditation that you do is better than the meditation practice that is ideally recommended by top coaches and CEOs.
We all differ in our ability to focus and clear the mind. Meditation is simply focusing and clearing the mind.
Vipassana is a style of meditation taught by the Buddha (the master of enlightenment as it were).
Romantic relationships help people grow in ways that they don’t immediately understand or comprehend at the time of falling in love. Love opens a doorway between two souls and now all of a sudden, the baggage that the other person has is somehow on your plate. And your baggage is now on their plate. However, our baggage is for us to deal with and not meant for the other person.
If emotion can be understood to be a type of fuel or energy for our lives, we can’t run on low quality fuel all the time. Emotions have energy—higher level emotions give a greater sense of satisfaction and happiness. Poor quality feelings such as fear, greed, pleasure and self-esteem can’t replace love and peace. Love and peace lead to a profound sense of happiness, whereas chronic worry and fear lead to chronic dissatisfaction and may also cause health issues.
People often talk about why people give up, and commit suicide or attempt it. Usually people think that the person must be mentally ill or ‘depressed’. Which is why depression is such a freaking taboo word. Just the word depression puts people into a different category of being a ‘wuss’ or ‘sissy’. A category that is not used for diseases such as diabetes or heart disease. In fact, in the cultural paradigm of industrial wealth, people with a physical illness are thought of as warriors—even empathized and pampered for having the disease. But, there is tremendous social prejudice against depression. Yet, it is depression that leads a person to end their life.
The heart sutra is meant to bring us into awareness of the gap between thoughts and to transcend mental polarity. We bring our presence or attention into the heart, and from this practice we can find nirvana and perfect enlightenment. Perfect Nirvana is a state of 0 anxiety, since the enlightened master transcends his or her attachment or sense of self and non-self (me and you). Our need to analyze, understand and make things ‘real’ around us, using a self reference creates suffering for all.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a big name for a condition that’s fairly common after sexual abuse, physical abuse or any form of violence or shock. PTSD is a severe case of trauma–but there are many more minor emotional traumas. Children who grow up in hostile environments can exhibit signs of PTSD later on…