Spiritual Meditation – What Is It And What Are Its Benefits?
What is Spiritual Meditation?
Spiritual Meditation is the highest form of Meditation technique that can make you realize who you are and help establish a connection with the higher power. It helps an individual to achieve self-realization. Regularly practicing Spiritual Meditation helps you strip off all your perceptions about yourself until that point in your life.
It also allows you experience real joy and peace. Spiritual meditation teaches the art of the concentrating at one’s present moment than pondering about the past or fearing about the future. It proves to be an effective technique that powers you to effectively handle the chaotic world around you.
Characteristics of Spiritual Meditation
The main characteristics of spiritual meditation are
1. Experiencing the loss of a sense of separateness
2. Hearing voices or seeing visions
3. Feeling the spiritual presence
4. Undergoing a sense of awe
5. Enjoying a sense of transcendence
Spiritual benefits of meditation
Meditation comes with various spiritual benefits. One who practices meditation will experience true blossoming of their spirit. Some of the are given below for your reference.
- Meditation helps you to develop a more balanced sense of being. Your level of self-awareness goes up resulting in increased focus.
- If you are meditating you will experience inner stillness and peace. Your will stop being unnecessarily anxious.
- Meditation will result in less reactivity. It will calm you down.
- A person practicing meditation will experience a sense of inner bliss that is not affected by any external circumstances
- It helps to develop an authentic sense of who you are on a soul level.
- Meditation plays a vital role in bringing down your stress levels.
- It boosts the creativity of an individual. Meditation stimulates the mind resulting in better creativity.
- People practicing meditation develop a strong sense of belonging.
- It will improve your self-esteem and self-acceptance
- Meditation helps in getting clarity about the purpose of life.
Health Benefits of Spiritual Meditation
Spiritual Meditation comes with several health benefits that are hard to ignore.
1. Spiritual Meditation will lower your high blood pressure.
2. As it reduces the blood lactate levels your anxiety levels will be check.
3. Spiritual meditation shall effectively reduce stress related ailments like tension headaches, ulcers, insomnia, muscle, and joint problems.
4. It aids serotonin production resulting in improved mood and behaviour.
5. Spiritual Meditation boosts your body’s immune system.
6. It helps in fixing sleeping disorders.
Spiritual meditation for sleep
Lack of sleep is a main issue faced by many. Change in Lifestyle, Social Chaos, Junk food, lack of work-life balance are the main causes of sleeping disorder. Spiritual Meditation is a widely prescribed remedy to fix this problem.
The following are the main techniques of spiritual meditation that act as a solution to your sleeping problem.
1.Breathing exercises: This technique is the process of regulating your breath. Count your breaths and then inhale and exhale slowly. Continue this for some time and your body will start relaxing and you will get sleep.
2. Mindful body scanning: Lie on your bed and observe the breath and the places where your body is touching your bed. Now, starting at the toes “switch off” any effort in each part of your body.
3. Visualizations: Imagine an image or scene that is pleasant and close to your heart. Fill your mind with the positive energy generated from that image or scene.
4. Gratitude: Before going to bed thank everyone you have to thank for the day. You might thank God, your parents, friends, well-wishers, spouse, and even strangers who made your day beautiful.
5. Counting: You could slow the mind and free from unnecessary thoughts by counting slowly. You can start at 100 (or even 1,000) counting backwards to one, then starting at 10 again.
6. Retrace your day: Review your day, in detail, action-by-action. It can keep your mind free from unwanted distractions and make you fall asleep soon.
When to Meditate
Generally meditating during the early morning is good but if you are not able to wake up early, you might meditate whenever you are up from bed. It is better to meditate with an empty stomach.
If you find it uncomfortable meditating with an empty stomach you can take a glass of water or milk. Meditating before going to bed is also a good practice. If you are meditating at the same time every day, the results would be very satisfying.
Can I get spiritual power through meditation?
You can get spiritual powers through meditation but for that to happen you should put genuine efforts. If you practice spiritual meditation after receiving initiation from a Guru, you can easily progress in your quest for spiritual power.
But you have to be sure to use the spiritual powers for a better cause and not for any destructive purposes.
Keys to a successful spiritual meditation
The following are the keys you have to follow for successful spiritual meditation.
- Ensure a comfortable position: Comfortable position is a must for successful meditation. Put a mat and sit in an upright position. Don’t lean to the wall but you may lean if you are too old and need to balance your back.
- Feel the energy: Meditation is all about energy and you have to feel it. Be very attentive even to the slight energy changes happening in you.
- Acknowledge your thoughts: Never try to disown your thoughts, that is not going to help you. Acknowledge your thoughts, face the reality and be ready to make amends.
- Say a prayer or a chant: Uttering a prayer or a small chant will help you focus more on your meditation. This step will bring you closer to divinity.
- Practice self-reflection: Self-reflection is a process of keeping a tap on your progress. Weighing your spiritual progress is the main key to successful spiritual meditation.
Hope you got an overall idea about Spiritual Meditation. In this fast developing world, the stress levels of humans are increasing very fast. Depression has become very common even in kids. Spiritual Meditation is an important solution to this problem. It plays a major role in maintaining the mental health of a person. Give a try and you will understand better.
Importance of Breath & New Coronavirus Mantra
Dr. Pillai relates the importance of breath and self-realization. He also gives a new mantra specifically to help collectively destroy the coronavirus.
Importance of Breath: The Breath Symbolizes Life
“The coronavirus has many of us wondering why we have to go through this, globally. It’s a global phenomenon. And what are we experiencing through that? One of the most important ones is the breath leading to life or death. If you breathe, you live, you don’t breathe, you die. So the breath symbolizes life. So you can ask so many questions about this virus, why it is there? And what is the lesson or lessons that we have to learn from this?
The most important lesson we have to learn is to understand the precious value of life. Only when we face death, we understand the value of life. Until then, life becomes just whiling away time. And now when you watch the television, you see the pain of people going through. Everybody’s afraid of death; there are no ventilators and that will keep you living until you know, you don’t any longer need it. So it’s important that we focus on the breath.”
The Purpose of Life
“The purpose of life is to understand life itself, and our lives have been spent without understanding what life is or what the life force is. We’re here on this earth plane to know about life – the life force. To know about the life force is to know about God. And we have completely marginalized God in every walk of our life. People don’t even think there is God. Even when you just present God as life force, our prana which is more acceptable to the inquiring scientific mind and how many people are able to do that? Not many. It is because we have completely banned God like a travel ban going everywhere now in all the countries we have banned God in our life, banned prana, understanding in our life.
And this is a wake-up call, not for everyone. Spiritual evolution is not for everyone. The biological evolution has stopped. And now we are at a stage that God has given or nature has given, because people don’t like the word ”God,” nature has given us full responsibility and a great brain to figure out things, and we are trying to figure out things. We think that the ventilator is the answer. No, ventilator is not the answer.
The most important thing is self-realization and if you miss that, then life is being wasted. The wasting of every moment. And it is 2:45 in the morning and my sleep pattern has changed and my own experience of sleep is very different from what has been before. Such a bliss if I sleep and if I don’t sleep it’s also such a bliss.”
Do Your Work, But Stay in Yoga
‘So we have caught up in a great confusion. The confusion is not being able to follow the yogic path or live like ordinary human beings. We have to balance both. Krishna gave a great path. He said, “yogastha kuru karmani” – do your work, but stay in yoga. Stay in yoga means in the full understanding of your spirit, of your soul, of your godhead.
Between action and inaction, action is better. So we cannot be without action. When you are in an enlightened condition, when you are a true Yogi, then you can be in inaction and enjoy that; that’s why they came up with this idea: after you are 60, or even earlier, after retirement, then you dedicate your life for self-realization. This is the model given to people in India because the latter part of the life should be diverted to God-realization.”
Importance of Breath Related to Coronavirus
“As I said there are hundreds of reasons I can give you why there is this virus, at least one reason I want to share with you is to understand the nature of the virus. It can be understood as a demon. In order to do that, you have to have a heightened awareness where you’ll be able to see the demon, like Jesus would be able to see the demon because he saw every disease as a demon.
And he was basically a demon buster. And that is a truth. What is the truth? The truth is the disease is a demon. So that’s one level of understanding. The other level is more palatable. Human beings, living in the 21st century, are to understand this virus as a killer, an invisible killer who can choke you to death. And it has tremendous amount of power to infect, and destroy your lungs.”
Coronavirus Mantra & Practice
“The most important thing is I’ve been stuck studying the virus now and how to defeat it. Not only strengthening our immune system but killing the virus itself. During this isolation period, how do you spend your time? The most profitable way of spending the time is to chant a mantra and that mantra is:
“Coronavirus nashi mashi, coronavirus nashi mashi, coronavirus nashi mashi, coronavirus nashi mashi.”
When you say this mantra you will use speech at another level. Use this mantra at least 1,008 times in the morning, 1,008 times in the afternoon and 1,008 times in the evening.
Maybe that is the reason why this virus came into our life so that we can get back to God, our own nature, our own true self. We have never done this. Most people have never done 1,008 times the chanting of a mantra.
So use this opportunity the virus that has given us – three weeks isolation time. Don’t spend your time thinking mundane thoughts and trying to figure out how are we going to survive, how we’re going to take care of the children. Everything is going to be taken care of. The world has come to a point, it has reached a threshold, and the threshold is the go-to to the other side. And know who we really are.
Focus on life. Just observe. Close your eyes during isolation and keep focusing on your root chakra. The Kundalini will start raising by itself and then it will reach the crown chakra. Even if you don’t do anything, it will do, and the focus on Kundalini, which is your life force, will energize your body. The cells will come alive and you can alternate between this exercise and the mantra. You can do this exercise for half an hour, one hour, instead of chit-chatting. We can do this or chant the mantra. That will be the best way of spending your isolation period.”
God bless,
Meditation, Prayer and Support to Overcome Difficult Times
During these times of uncertainty, we offer meditation, prayer and support to help you overcome fear and worry. We are here to uplift and provide solace.
On Sunday, March 22, Pillai Center teacher Gina Guerrieri (Lakshmi) hosted the first of a series of six Spiritual Support Meditation and Prayer Calls to assist in Dr. Pillai’s mission of helping to alleviate the world’s suffering.
We Are Here to Offer Support via Meditation and Prayer
We realize many of you are fearful of the unknowns while we collectively go through this time of great transition. The team at Pillai Center wants to let you know that we are here to unite as many souls as our messages can reach to call in God’s power to fight negative forces of all kinds. Both individually and in (virtual) groups, we can make powerful use of this time to evolve. By maintaining and building on our spiritual practices during this tumultuous time, we strengthen our spiritual energy and auric field to protect our mind, body and spirit.
During Sunday’s call, Lakshmi shared tips to manage your mental and emotional state, as well as a plethora of Pillai Center resources to help you navigate these difficult times.
Ways to Manage Your Mental and Emotional State
- Be a witness. Observe. Do not give in to fear. We have to manage our emotional and mental states right now. Why? Because we are getting a lot of information from psychic airwaves and physical airwaves. The news is coming at us through our phones, through our televisions, through our computers, through our friends and family.Perhaps information continually gets fed into our being and we have to do something with that. So when you receive that you can give yourself the opportunity to be a witness to it as opposed to get wrapped up in what it is you are dealing with or what you’re seeing. So when I say be a witness, when you are reading the news, you are seeing these statistics, instead of immediately clenching up in your chest or reacting in some other fearful way, just observe what that information may have done to you physically, psychically, emotionally, mentally and then react from a place of centeredness. The more you meditate, the more you chant, you will get to the place where that will be an easier thing to do.
- Redirect your thoughts as they come in.
When a thought comes in, decide where you want to go with it. This is the most important time to redirect your thoughts to focus on keeping your mindset calm and peaceful. What energies do you want to focus your thoughts on?
- Be a torchbearer for the Divine message of comfort, peace and strength. We are warriors of light!
- Keep yourself occupied with your spiritual practices.
This helps you shield yourself from negative energies and thought cycles and strengthen your auric field to be able to withstand anything that comes at you. We are warriors right, we’re warriors of light and in any way that works for you taking on that identity so that you are able to start shielding yourself from the energy, the thoughts that are coming in.
- Use this time to create a new habit, a new schedule, dust off an old hobby or start a new one. Take this opportunity to recreate your life!
Suggested Spiritual Activities
- Write mantras
- Chant mantras
- Play mantras 24/7 – specifically Shreem Brzee or Om Praneshwaraya Swaha
- Take spiritual courses or read spiritual books
- Meditate Daily
- Watch Dr. Pillai’s Fire Prayer daily
Meditation, Prayer and Support Resources
We have put together a list of resources (both free and paid) to assist you in focusing on your spiritual practice and joining together in (virtual) community. Below you can find links to each resource. Feel free to share them with your friends and loved ones.
Free Resources:
- Consolidation of Dr. Pillai’s Fire Prayer, meditation and teachings: available here
- Dr. Pillai’s One-Minute Meditation Prayer: listen here
- Group Shreem Brzee Chanting Calls every Friday at 8:00 am PT: join here
- Weekly Atomic Dreaming Calls every Tuesday at 6:30 pm PT: join here
- Powertime Practice calls every Saturday at 7:00 am PT: join here
- Pillai Center Facebook page: get notifications for Dr. Pillai’s Facebook Live videos from isolation
- Pillai Center Facebook community group: join Fire Prayer watch parties and connect virtually with the Pillai Center community
Paid Resources:
- Ascension to Bliss includes guided meditations and techniques that can help your life-force energy rise to the pineal gland and fill every cell of your body with light. Benefit from a meditation to release the “nectar of immortality” (Amrtia) to heal and divinely code your genes.
- 9 Nights of the Goddess Fire Prayers. Use the powertime from March 24-April 2 to receive blessings, guidance and protection from three fierce versions of the Divine Mother.
- Shreem Brzee Collective. Benefit from the collective power of (virtual) community to create abundance for each other and the world.
You are important to us and Dr. Pillai encourages us all to unite in meditation and prayer now, when it matters most, to uplift and empower each other and the world as we traverse this time of transition and great change. We wish you continued health and safety!
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