Sep 11, 2024 3 min read Meditation lessons

1. What is meditation?

By viewing everything as a creation, you empower yourself to become the creator of your own life experience.

Like an artist studying a piece of art or a designer analyzing a design, meditation at its core is about studying creation from the perspective of a creator.

What is creation?

Well, everything! When meditating, everything you experience—your physical senses, memories, thoughts, feelings, imagination, and beliefs—are all creations in some form or another. In deeper meditation, you might even consider your body, your life, and any transcendental experiences beyond as creations too. But that's for a much later lesson.

Seeing everything as a creation is a fundamental perspective required to enter a meditative state. This allows you to detach and separate yourself from what you're experiencing, so you can study it and understand how it came to be.

Meditation for mental health.

Understanding meditation in this way is transformative for your mental health. If stress and anxiety have been created in your life, then serenity and calm can be created as well. If trauma and addiction have been created, healing and recovery can be created too. By viewing everything as a creation, you empower yourself to become the creator of your own life experience—from problems and solutions to pains and pleasures.

Who or what is the Creator?

For now, the creator is you. At this stage of your meditation practice, there's no need to worry about what governs life’s experience. For now, accept that you are in the driver's seat and have the power to take your life anywhere you choose.

Another way to look at this is to imagine the source of all creation as a single sheet of paper. If you were to tear off a small piece of that paper, you—as consciousness or the soul—would represent that piece.* This concept will be explored in a later lesson.

Your body in meditation.

It's also worth mentioning that although your body sits during meditation, it is actually you who is meditating. Your body cannot physically visit your memories, nor can it enter your imagination, but a version of you can. This version can be referred to as the soul, higher self, inner self, a fragment of the creator, or my personal preference: consciousness.

Since your body is limited to the physical realm and cannot follow you into meditation, you place it in a comfortable position so that you—as consciousness—can roam freely through dimensions of space and time.

Next week, we’ll dive deeper into understanding yourself as a conscious entity beyond the body. Until then, think like a creator—meditate on the life you want to shape. Let your imagination soar, think freely, and feel deeply into the experience you wish to create. Envision it, then study it!

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*Esoteric concepts are not meant to be taken literally or as absolute truths. However, they can provide valuable perspectives and context, helping our limited human minds grasp complex ideas.

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