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Taking A Break From Your Thoughts
By Elizabeth Penning

The first thing you need for correct meditation is a right mental attitude, particularly one of listening. Most people seldom listen. They are deaf to the symphony of sounds in the world around them. They are deaf to other people, for they are more interested in speaking their own minds. They treat their own conscience as though it were a defect to be overcome. They behave as though perpetually campaigning for their own ideas. Like bettors at a horse race, they keep betting the "right" horse to win.

The process is never-ending. Every horizon reached, if it ever is reached, only opens up new vistas of expectation and of wishful thinking. Some people, when a particularly cherished hope ends, live out the rest of their lives in a wonderful dream-world of Might-Have-Been.

For a few minutes every day, why not give this process a rest? Stop decreeing your opinions to the universe. There is a state of awareness that precedes the very process of thinking. Seek that. It lies in inner calmness. Granted, this state isn't easy to find. One thing that will help you to find it, however, is listening.

Listen to your thoughts. Listen to what is; don't keep on insisting on what you think ought to be. Tune in to things as they are. Train your mind to accept what simply is. Meditation is the opposite of imposing your will on the world. Relinquish, even for just a few minutes, the process of concocting plans and projects for the future. Be more, not less, conscious, however. Just as I suggested that you act calmly, so also, during moments of calmness, be dynamically aware.

In dawning calmness you may find yourself, at first, tempted to drift off passively into a sort of semi-subconscious state. There is a certain restfulness in this state, as there is in sleep. It is a temporary rest, however; it doesn't refresh the spirit. Nor has it power to improve your life, as super-consciousness has. Subconsciously induced rest lowers your level of energy and will power, and makes you subject to conditions over which you ought to be gaining mastery. It takes a strong will, generating great energy, to rise above, or even to
calm, life's storms.

The calmness born of deep meditation represents a higher degree of awareness, and therefore of will and energy, than any experienced in lower states. Meditation-born calmness will enable you not only to remain calm during periods of intense activity, but also to face, and accept with wise under- standing, the trials of life.

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Elizabeth Penning, copywriter for various web sites writing articles about natural health and other related subjects for sites such as the A-Z of and Information Junkie.

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