1. Refresh our mind
2. Relax
3. Make our faces look innocent
4. Ease the dull pain in the head and discomfort around the chest
Many people talk about how wonderful the meditation is. The first two effects of it are well known and the third effect is the result of those two effects. The fourth effect is what I strongly feel but rarely heard. So I want to share how I meditate and how it works.
How to meditate
- Sit cross-legged on the floor
- Close my eyes
- Stop thinking and concentrate on what I see and what I feel
First, I feel brightness about the directions of my desk lamp or the ceiling light or if it is the daytime, windows in my room. Continue feeling the brightness and somehow it changes at some point and starts moving. There are no specific moving patterns. Sometimes the light comes from above like sunshine and sometimes it stays just beside me, and sometimes it comes from inside of my body.
When I feel some pain or discomfort in my body, I concentrate on the place I feel unwell. Then I notice that there is a dark fog like thing around there. I try to know the exact place and the shape of it as much as I can. The moment I succeed in doing so, the fog becomes thinner and smaller. (Sometimes it jumps to a different place but just do the same to the discomfort again and it works fine.) I keep doing so until the fog becomes almost imperceptible. As the fog becomes thinner, the dull pain and discomfort I felt in the beginning become smaller.
I don’t say this method always banishes the pain and discomfort completely, but it definitely helps to attenuate them. Sometimes, before I concentrate on the pain, the moving lights gulp the fog and it is gone. Either way, the fog becomes smaller or vanishes after the meditation.
I just wrote what I feel and what happens to me when I meditate, but if it is helpful to you, I am very happy:-)
Have a nice day!