“How does meditation work?” This is the fundamental question I ask in my first book, The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation. (A free e-book you can request by using his link: THIS LINK.) A question I will amplify on in my upcoming eighth book, Meditation for Health and Healing: Getting Better Day by Day, The question is an attempt to discern the principle behind meditations’ efficacy. A principle that we can apply to any situation– health, wealth, better performance, and other human concerns.
It’s a Problem Solving Tool
I think that meditation works because, as a problem-solving tool, it interrupts the momentum that gets built up within our biomechanical ego/body/mind around some problem or issue. The problem begins for some reason. Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, dysfunctional childhood. Whatever.
The problem’s cause within 3-dimensional reality can be hard to pinpoint. Nevertheless, a problem or condition arises. Probably with multiple swirling causes. And when a condition starts it begins to loop, especially in our thoughts and feelings, the problem gets bigger. It causes the cause to amplify and feed on itself. Kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to. “Alexa, loop it”. The song plays over and over.
The Loop Effect
I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect. Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on. We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank). Our mind goes over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations. We can’t get it out of our mind. The loop effect has begun.
We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation and desire to get retribution. It begins to take on a life of its own. We tell those close to us about it. With our friend, we speculate together. We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior. An argument might ensue. More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies. The loop is hard to escape. It builds.
Meditation’s Healing Effect
Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum. Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition interrupts its influence. If only for a moment. The condition goes into abeyance. If for only a moment.
In addition, if, as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we may, in that moment of silence remember our 5th-Dimensional Nature. And realize that Spirit is the life force that animates our human body/mind/personality. In such a moment we may allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by the suspension of the loop. Spirit, rushing in, is a healing agent. Going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition. And we slip into our true Eternal Beingness. If only for a moment.
Being Human Can Be Tough
Human conditions exist only in the third dimension. They have no existence in 5-dimensional Reality. My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul. My existence as Buddha Mind is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes. The condition can be very real in my perception of my human eye’s biological condition.
My approach to doing healing work on my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every three months to get my eye pressure checked. To meditate before I go to the appointments. And to use mindfulness exercises while I am there to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature. So far, in 5 years, my eye pressure numbers have not increased. I am having no symptoms.
As I write this, I realize that the theory behind the medical treatment— the eyedrops, and the eye vitamins–is similar. They interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy. And arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed. A similar intervention to meditation.
Both Are Helpful
In my case, I think both my meditation and the medications are helpful. My Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects. Each can amplify the effect of the other. This is why I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor. As well as why I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins every evening.
Withdrawing our attention from any condition withdraws the human attachment to it. Allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence/Spirit Within) to be the predominant energy animating the moment. Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our ego/body/mind’s functioning renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.
Help is Right at Your Fingertips
A poor health condition, lack of financial resources, and lack of viable and enlivening relationships occur to most of us a one time or another. All are part of the same dreamlike nature of the human condition. And all will respond. Or more accurately, recede. When the process of first, acknowledging and experiencing our true nature as Eternal Beings is accomplished through meditation. And second, withdrawing our attention from the condition, also through meditation, is practiced. Thereby recognizing the condition has no real power over us other than the power we give it.
The result is that we achieve the greatest of all benefits. Contacting our Soul and having an experience of our Higher Consciousness. Greatest spiritual victory a human being can have.
Conclusion
Meditation’s benefits are amazing. However, many people don’t know that scientific research has shown that many diseases respond favorably to meditation. I have developed a meditation process that accelerates the benefits of traditional meditation in my most popular book The Meditation Book. It amplifies regular meditation by encouraging contact with your Higher Self, or Soul.
Do you meditate? Do you have your own opinion of how/why it works?
Blair Abee is an author, poet, YouTuber, and ordinary mystic. His 5 award-winning books are available at Amazon Books. And his YouTube videos are available at Blair Abee Higher Consciousness. Get on his email list by going to his website https://www.BlairAbee.com and receive a free copy of Book 1, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation.