SNEAK PEAK: Excerpt from "Break The Chain 2"
Here’s an unedited excerpt from Chapter 8 of the completely rewritten “Beak The Chain Volume 2” The book is to be released in the first half of 2019.
Chapter 8. Meditation: The Beginning of Positive Momentum
Meditation is not an exercise to lower your blood pressure — but it will.
Meditation is not designed to lower your stress levels — but it will.
Meditation is not designed to strengthen your will — but it will do that too.
Instead of any of the side benefits; the purpose of meditation is to put yourself in a position where you can reach all of your hopes and dreams.
Look again at the chart below. Notice that the point at the top of the triangle is when the mind is still. It’s this point that you achieve when you learn to meditate.
The Law of Attraction is about momentum. It operates just like gravity. Whichever side of the triangle you are on you will automatically pull you toward the bottom.
So if you are anywhere on the “Dissatisfaction” side of the triangle, you will tend to think and act in ways that create even more dissatisfaction.
If there is an area in your life that you are currently not pleased with, how do you fix it?
Depending on how far down you’ve slid on the triangle your problem might be hard (if not impossible) to change. Think of the triangle as mountain. From the dark side of the mountain you have a lot of climbing up to do. You also can’t even see the sunny side.
Almost all self development work and goal setting is done from the dark side of the mountain. It’s for this reason that most of these methods have little success. When you work from the dark side you are fighting gravity. You are literally fighting a universal law.
If you are in a place you don’t want to be, before you can see improvement you must put yourself in a position where gravity is no longer working against you. You need to be in a spot where you you are perfectly balanced.
From a place of balance you can make an easy choice. The choice is simply taking an easy step toward what you want. If you move in the direction of what you want from the top of the mountain the force of momentum will be working with you.
Moving toward your goals when your mind is balanced makes all the difference. Everything gets easy when you start at the top of the mountain. Things are hard when you start at the bottom of the wrong side.
Meditation is like a ski lift that will take you to the peak of the mountain. Meditation brings you to a place where you can choose to put momentum on your side.
So Many Books
There have been so many books and lectures on meditation. But so few understand this basic idea of momentum. Without an understanding of momentum meditation is reduced to just another exercise to reduce stress.
Meditation lays the foundation for all success.
Meditation is not a tool to develop will power. Instead it is the tool that will render “will power” inconsequential.
You need massive amounts of will power to climb UP the hill. You need practically none when you are moving downward.
The simple choice you make after you have used meditation to still your mind enough that you rise to the top of the mountain makes all the difference.
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Imagine you are going to a dinner party. At that party there are different with strong opinions. There are religious people, there are political people, there are people heavily involved in social justice.
What is your goal when you go to the party?
Is your goal to win one of them over to your religion, politics, or cause? Or instead is your goal to enjoy the party and have a great time?
If your goal is the latter of the two; then what subjects would you talk about?
You would only bring things up that everyone could agree on. You would only bring up things that everyone has in common. You might choose to be silent for a while until you figure out where everyone is coming from.
In this example; the strong opinions at the party represent your negative beliefs. Instead of trying to change your negative belief you learn to be silent; and then focus on something you can find harmony with.
When you meditate you are learning to still your mind; and as you do you are gradually learning to deactivate your own negative thoughts and beliefs. When your meditation is finished you will put yourself in a position where it’s much easier to find thoughts of satisfaction.
It’s so frustrating to me as teacher to watch students meditate and then go right back to choosing the same thoughts and actions they chose before the session! The only reason I can imagine anyone would do this is they don’t understand what meditation really is. They don’t understand this concept of raising your level of vibration until taking a step toward your goal is now possible.
It is said: “Meditation is the foundation of all true Martial Arts.” (We say this at the beginning of every class). But seldom do students question what a foundation is. Simply put; a foundation is something you build on!
You meditate to raise your level of consciousness so you become aware you are sitting on the peak of the mountain. You are in a place where ANYTHING is possible. You can then easily take steps in the direction of what you want.
But it would be even more correct to say. “Mediation is the foundation of all success”.