Synopsis:
Updated with new resources, techniques, and research, davidji’s revised Secrets of Meditation shares the wisdom of the ages in order to help you unlock your own personal journey with meditation, powerful intentions, and practical rituals for your everyday life. Whether you are new to meditation, a crisis meditator, or someone who has been meditating for years, Secrets of Meditation will take your practice, and your life, to the next level. In this insightful guide, davidji shares his own meditative path to awakening and explores the impact meditation can have on your physical health, relationships, emotional well-being, and spiritual life. By demystifying rigid commandments and revealing the five greatest myths of meditation, davidji will have you meditating in minutes and living a happier, easier, and more fulfilling life.
From the Author:
It is my hope that you meditate. It is my belief that we will change the
world through meditation. It is my understanding that connecting
to the stillness and silence within allows each of us to live life with
expanded awareness, deeper compassion, and greater fulfillment. It is
my experience that time spent in stillness and silence can open your
heart to the true depth of your universal essence. Accessing this depth
of pure, unbounded consciousness on a regular basis has allowed me
to see and feel the world with an ever-expanding openness, deeper
empathy, greater clarity, and a heightened connection to Source. At
this point in my life, I think this is a good thing.
Aham brahmasmi is a Sanskrit expression meaning "I am the
universe." When we can genuinely feel we are not in or of this world
but rather the whole world is within us, we slowly begin to integrate
that mind-set into our words, our thoughts, and our deeds. Once
this is truly how you feel (and daily meditation will awaken that
understanding), you will effortlessly tap into the limitless supply
of what the universe has to offer you--a wellspring of effortless
abundance, an unfolding of deeper fulfillment, and a sweeter, more
loving world that you can walk through with greater grace and ease.
No different from when you are in a dream state, every experience
you have in your waking state is self-derived, self-created, self-influenced,
and self-motivated.
This is not to say things outside of you don't happen; rather,
it's how you respond to the unexpected or
the uncertain--what you do with new information and old rituals--
that ends up becoming the fabric of your life. And we all respond to
everything: a kiss on our lips, the wind on our cheek, a diagnosis,
a text, a cough, a comment, a sigh, a desire, a memory, a caress, the
ringing of a phone, the honking of a horn, the wink of an eye, a
fleeting thought, footsteps in the distance, the sun on our neck, the
tone of an e-mail, the color of someone's hair, and even the reading
of this sentence. Yet there is no such thing as an external force that
can make us feel a certain emotion or respond in a certain way. Our
moods, feelings, and emotions are multidimensional interpretations
based on our conditioning. Most of it is probably imprinted into our
subconsciousness before we reached our teens. The remainder is
embedded over the past few decades as we drank life in and reinforced
those early interpretations, weaving them into the fabric of our
being.
Our response to each moment is a blend of that conditioning,
our DNA, our current circumstances, our emotional intelligence, and
our state of mind in that instant. In his book Man's Search for Meaning ,
the Austrian neurologist and holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl, wrote
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our
power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and
our freedom."
Meditating every day has taught me we are all the masters of
each moment. And effortlessly weaving this practice into every fiber
of my being has given me tools and techniques for better choosing
my responses--living life with less stress and anxiety, greater clarity
and focus, expanded compassion and empathy, deeper love and
more frequent joy. Meditation has also gifted me a viewpoint that
is more receptive to other perspectives, which offers me increased
possibilities in each moment. I believe that anyone who is willing
to embrace meditation can access these tools as well. Feel free to
consider this book your meditation tool kit.
Since I wrote the first edition of this book, I have meditated
more than 5,000 additional hours, trained hundreds of thousands
of people to connect to the stillness and silence within themselves,
and immersed myself into the newest scientific discoveries regarding
the human brain, our thought process, and how we make decisions.
With my soul bursting to share this new information with you, I
rebirthed Secrets of Meditation with additional meditation techniques,
the most recent scientific studies, and juicy explorations into higher
states of consciousness.
I thank you for taking the time to read this book, which came
from my heart. I encourage you to try meditating and begin a meditation
practice using the guidance contained in these pages. I hope
you'll let me help you find what you are looking for. I would consider
it a privilege.
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