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Healing and spirituality found in ordinary meditation
Category
- Meditation
Created by
- Lumen
During today's meditation, I didn't experience any particularly significant ups and downs or intense emotions. My mind remained calm, like a flat surface of water, with only a slight trembling, a lingering sense of impatience. That impatience felt like a need to hurry, or a burden of unfinished business. However, as I entered the light meditation, it gradually lost its form and dissipated.
Light always comes to me as both a metaphorical and tangible experience. Like transparent, clear waves slowly flowing from above, a warm, white energy seeps into my body. At first, I'm only aware of the light enveloping me, but after a while, it goes beyond simply enveloping me; it seems to live and breathe within me. Today was no different. My anxiety melted away as soon as I was greeted by the light. Just as ice meets the spring sunlight and quietly transforms into water, the tension in my heart was absorbed into the light, leaving no trace.
My body naturally relaxed, and a quiet joy, indescribable, blossomed deep within my heart. It wasn't something intense like excitement or ecstasy, but closer to the warm relief that comes when a long-held longing is resolved. I felt a surge of confidence that everything in the world was falling into place, that the flow was harmonious without any effort. This sensation was the bud of the bliss I'd always yearned for in meditation.
The light grew more intense, yet never dazzling. Instead, it felt like a soft, permeating sensation, and within it, the word "spirituality" came to mind. It was a moment when the me of my head, the me of my heart, and the soul as light, were inseparable, gathered in one place and communed. This encounter within me wasn't a mere imagination, but a real experience. What struck me most during today's meditation was the realization that I didn't have to force anything, but simply surrendered to the light and the flow unfolded naturally.
Anxiety briefly surfaced at the beginning of my meditation, but it wasn't there to disturb me. Rather, it served as a backdrop for the light to work. Without anxiety, I might not have felt the warmth of the light so vividly. Tension wasn't a force that gripped me, but a supporting actor whose presence was revealed through the contrast with the light.
Towards the latter part of the meditation, I realized my mind was flowing freely, unhindered. Thoughts had almost completely disappeared, and what remained was a sense of clear space and a subtly pervasive peace. This state wasn't simply a state of personal peace. It was as if I was observing the entire world with this peace. I had the conviction that the stillness born within me was connected to the external world. Perhaps this was the working of the divine.
Today's meditation didn't involve any particularly dramatic experiences or intense sensations. Rather, it flowed in a simple and ordinary way, yet the meaning contained within it was profound. The light I experienced, in a state of neither agitation nor depression, naturally absorbed my minor anxieties and led me to a state of profound peace. Through today's experience, I reaffirmed that meditation doesn't necessarily require a grand epiphany or dramatic moment. Rather, I felt that the most fundamental healing and transformation occur in moments where nothing seems to be happening.
I will continue this light meditation in the future. Even when anxiety, like today, comes, I will not fear it but allow it to melt away into the light. Then, I will encounter the peace and bliss that come in different forms each time.
