People, who practise meditation, sacrifice a lot of time for it (half an hour a day, an hour a day). What is the reason for such activity? Why people meditate? Is it worthwhile?

In my opinion there are two ways to approach the meditation. Those ways are differentiated by the scale of people requirements concerning expected results of such practise.

Recreation

People often meditate (or practise Yoga, Tai-Chi, e.g.) because they want to:

• relax both their mind and their body,

• have good health,

• spend time in silence and peace,

• increase a level of IQ,

In my opinion such effects of meditation are only incidental to the main result. We must remember that practise of meditation can serve the much more ambitious purpose.

Way of Life!

In fact all religions broach the subject of the ‘enlightening’. It is the main purpose of man life – return to spiritual form, to the source of existence, … . Accomplishment of such state of mind seems to be very difficult and distant. Some of the philosophers say about renunciation of physical goods and pleasure in the name of becoming enlightened. A lot of people concentrate on acquiring such goods, so ‘enforced’ renunciation of its possession in the name of indefinite ‘enlightening’ is in their opinion uneconomic.

The meditation is a way for people who are not satisfied by possessing of physical goods, privileges, fame, etc. We can understand more, our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us is increasing through meditation. Process of developing this ‘knowledge’ is adjusted to mental and physical capabilities. By the way we learn to use intuition and others talents.

Changes gradually take place. Its are imperceptible especially at the beginning of practise of meditation, but after a some period positive results of meditation can be seen in all aspects of our life. We improve the world around us through improving ourselves!

There is a lot of different clues in numerous publications concerning meditation. In many cases description of practise of meditation looks more or less like that:

• find a place where nobody disturb you

• sit down in comfortable position with the straight spine (there is many possibilities)

• concentrate on breathing

• meditate everyday at least half an hour, the same time in the morning and in the evening (good theoretical presumption)

Collection of such stipulations is difficult to realise, especially for beginners. They must be very motivated to impose such regime on theirselves. Additional impediment is the fact that “the results of meditation” can be detected after some period of time. So the beginners must be also patience.

If you are going to start to meditate, don’t let these little problems discourage you. You must try and try and once again try! Persistence is very important – fervent meditations for a month are worthless if its aren’t continued. You shouldn’t also expect great results after few meditations. The beginners must have strong motivation to meditation – they must be prepared for some sacrifice e.g. to wake up one hour earlier everyday or to resign next part of its favourite serial.

Strong motivation – it is the key to success. This motivation ensue of consciousness of the purpose of meditation. It is worth to sacrifice, isn’t it? Let’s check it.

What we ate ready to do to earn for bread? Eight hours a day.

What we are ready to do to graduate? Few years of education, exams, stress.

What we ate ready to do to be happy, “enlighten”? Exactly! It’s worth to sacrifice!

Rest of this, positions, methods – those are only technical details. Those details are often useful but its aren’t the most important. The main thing is to concentrate on the purpose of meditation (not on the measures) – it give beginners strength to practise.