STOP THINK AND MOVE FURTHER

Many people follow a set routine... be that pertaining to a social, religious or spiritual aspect or a sports practice.......Some religiously follow a practice which can be a social service event  or a daily visit to a religious place or  getting up early in the morning at a particular fixed time.....

It is definitely very difficult to follow one particular path daily without fail.With passing time one does acquire the ability to follow that more conveniently and of course with a decreased effort with each passing day.

Well here if we try to analyze the state of mind, body and spirit at the onset of following a set difficult routine when one is preparing oneself into following a set routine.....What happens....one needs lots of energy and motivation.One falls many times. Every failure teaches a lesson if one still insists on that particular path.One needs more energy mentally as well as physically.The expansion of energy is further enhancing at this stage.

As the habit of a daily practice develops....What happens now.... no longer much effort has to be put in.Things get automatically followed.No stretching of energy is required. One starts enjoying the comfort zone. And also a vice that is ego silently creeps in.The person starts feeling superior to others.
Here two aspects start...one no further elevation in the output due to lack of expansion of energy...
second energy depletion due to enhanced ego.

This stage hinders further progress in every field one intends to elevate oneself in.....
Then how to not let ego come in the way.....
Over the years  have found that if one takes very short breaks in between the daily routine pattern one follows it rather gives better results....like not to follow it say once or twice a week....
This practice doesn't let the ego enhance  and so further stops positive energy depletion.....Ego chapter gets stabilized.

Secondly after every break one starts with new increased energy and intent...so a constant in flow of positive energy remains for further progress to the desired goal.......

HEALING WITH MEDITATION

Noise somehow was always a big deterent for my normal thought process. Loud sound coming from even my own mouth numbs my nerves, rather would say has more ill-effect on the clarity of my thoughts.

I remember an interesting episode that happened when i joined my NGO.I visited the preprimary school in slums with around three hundred odd students.The stench around was very obviously felt as i parked my car.More disturbing was the constant noise emanating out of the school hall, with shouting of teachers and students alike.

There are no walls in the school to contain the sound to a limited area or to the respective classroom.It is a temporary shed, open from all sides....so a free flow of din was the result.Umpteen number of efforts to counsel and motivate the students not to shout or speak aloud or abstain from roudy behavior failed. Similar noise was created by the students all the time with hardly much difference.

Then we started the practice of meditation in the morning assembly.Behavior and concentration level of students improved day by day.Still at the time when school gets over similar shouting and fighting and mischivious behavior used to start.

Then we introduced another meditation session of five minutes just before the school gets over. There was marked positive difference again. Now no one standing outside can judge easily that there are so many students studying inside the school.

Definitely there was improvement in physical as well as mental state of the beings, here small children in the age group of six to fourteen. Probably small children are very easy subjects, as they get motivated with a little effort......

This is just a small incident.......
Benefits of meditation are generally felt on all levels....physical, mental as well as spiritual.........