INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION                               MEDINTRO.TXT
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      MEDITATION IS NOT A RELIGION ! IT PERTAINS TO ALL RELIGIONS AND TO NONE!
      IT IS A METHOD TO EFFECT INTERNAL GROWTH, INTERNAL CHANGE, TO BRING
      INNER PEACE AND TO GET TO KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE INSIDE. YOU CAN BE A
      ATHEIST OR A FOLLOWER OF ANY RELIGION AND STILL PRACTICE MEDITATION!
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      Meditation is the ROYAL path to inner peace, health, growth and
      ENLIGHTENMENT!

      It is the growth method that yields the most results for the least
      amount time spent.

      Meditation is practiced by some members of every major world religion
      and even most of the minor ones. Meditation is not a religion, it is a
      psychological process, that anyone, regardless of their faith can
      practice, without any conflict to their spiritual beliefs. Meditation,
      however is often taught as a spiritual practice. Meditation is also
      taught without any spiritual connotations. A major heart
      surgeon/specialist is teaching it under the name "relaxation response"
      to his patients at a major medical center in this country. His carefully
      controlled, fully documented research has been accepted by the AMA as
      valid. He has shown a large decrease in stress levels in those patients
      practicing meditation as well as lower average blood pressure readings.
      Some patients who needed continuous medication to keep their blood
      pressure down are able to do so without the use of the drugs they had
      been having to take to live.

      What is meditation ?

      Meditation is learning to still both the body and mind, so the mind
      reaches a state of consciousness where no thoughts happen and doing this
      at least once per day. Repeatedly experiencing this state results in a
      deep inner peace, which normally lasts throughout the whole day. It
      becomes easier to deal with life and one's creativity increases. Often
      after meditation has been practiced CONSISTENTLY for a while, some
      wonderful experiences manifest. Some meditators report: Healing of
      problems both medical and mental which have troubled them for years.
      Major changes in their self image. Finding new meaning in their life and
      the world. Increased productivity in all areas of their life. Increased
      creativity. Increased intimacy with their partners. And that sometimes,
      the veil between themselves and what is called "the Creator" dissolves.

      You will have to see what manifests for you !!!

       [text by das]