Benefits of Light and Sound Meditation
A short article outlining the benefits of Light and Sound Meditation, Enlightenment and making realisations from your meditation.
Practicing the Advanced (Light and Sound) Meditation is an effective method of observing both the nature of our individuality and, increasingly, the nature of universality. This is because it allows us to encompass more and more of creation, and so more and more of what we actually are. In effect we get bigger, stepping beyond the bounds of what we are into what we can become. As this process occurs we are able to observe the love that is the essence of the universe, as well as the essence of ourselves. We can literally bathe within it as we go deeper into our meditation – experiencing the delight of a state of being that affords us opportunity after opportunity for expansion and bliss.
Whilst Enlightenment brings the opportunity for this process to be rapidly accelerated, transcendence, change and realisation are not restricted simply to Enlightenment. Each stage of the personal journey brings an opportunity for us to experience growth and change to an ever-increasing degree.
This expansion of consciousness is known as realisation. It is this expansion that allows creation to reveal her secrets, enabling us to see her from a new, broader perspective, gaining an understanding of the laws and cycles of both creation and humanity.
Sometimes when we have realisations, maybe during meditation or maybe not, a rush of love floods through the blossoming heart chakra. This can be so powerful it can make the heart almost ache, as it becomes awash with love. This “full to bursting with love” feeling, is possibly the most empowering and liberating spin-off that occurs as a result of practicing Advanced Meditation – and it really can’t be beaten for sheer feel-good factor.
Because realizations allow us to encompass more and more of creation, we are able to observe, to an increasing degree, the essence of what we are. This gives us the courage to make changes within ourselves and within our lives, by enabling us to cast off old habits that stop us attaining our goals. This in turn affords us the opportunity to fulfil our potential as human beings, as it gives us the ability to focus all our energies, channelling them into a tremendous motivating force, carrying us towards the goals we have set for ourselves both spiritually, and materially.
Much of the work of the personal meditative journey (the preparation for Enlightenment) is simply an acceptance of the need for change: once this is done, changes often follow naturally and effortlessly.
We all have expressions within our personality which we find hard to accept, or simply don’t want to change. However, there is nothing to say that we must cast off forever all these diverse aspects of our personality. The life-experiences we each have are invaluable. Diversity of personality and of experience ensure a rich and varied personal expression of realisations – which is stimulating, as well as essential, for others searching for profound states of consciousness themselves.
To me, the knack is to allow the personality to become a tool for the expression of our state of consciousness, whatever stage we are at – rather than a tool for the expression of our fears and anxieties. The ability to make these changes lies within the states of awareness found during deep meditation. The process is very simple – meditation, realisation and the application of those realisations. Meditation changes our perspective and allows us to view our individuality from a broader and broader perspective enabling us to become increasingly “universal”. Realisations enable us to understand and appreciate this new perspective. Finally, in living our lives from this new perspective we apply their knowledge, with the potential to integrate our expanded state of consciousness into everything we do. It is this gradual integration of realisations that constitutes the personal spiritual journey.
This journey may have a goal in Enlightenment, but the journey itself, as many of you will know from personal experience, is full of surprises and delights. Along the way we are gradually released from one realm of consciousness to another, like Russian dolls being freed from the confines of each other.
Love is the essential energy that maintains our individuality – love is the energy that unpacks us from the confines of that individuality– until finally we become the love we have caught a glimpse of along the way.
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