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Deep relaxation, mindfulness and meditation release stress directly, but also make life less stressful because contact with higher states of consciousness gives our life an order which removes at source a lot of the strife which causes stress. Unfortunately, these sensible and practical aspects of life so necessary to a harmonious life, have overtones of religious affiliation. It makes those unimpressed with religious dogma, attitudes and morality, wary. Religious people on the other hand, may feel threatened. The word religion comes from a root word whose meaning is to bring together. In the Christian sense, this would be interpreted as meaning the congregation, coming together to sing the mass, or to listen to a sermon. Its meaning, however, is deeper and has nothing to do with any one religion. It means to bring all one’s forces, energies, or awareness to one point. To concentrate one’s being in order to penetrate through our mental conditioning and sense-bound mind to beyond. This is exactly in accordance with reality. It is what happens when distraction is reduced and one becomes concentrated. It is the opposite to restlessness, tension and activity, which is why it is the perfect antidote.

No matter what the circumstances of their life, people who have found it are blessed. It’s not a mystical state or a fabulous goal requiring special powers and years of weird and wonderful disciplines or rites. Nothing of the sort. It is more like your original self, half-forgotten, or a beautiful heirloom you put away for safe keeping and forgot where. It is a simple fact that real beauty and worth lie beyond the mind and that relaxation and meditation (which is total relaxation) can reveal them. Most poets find their inspiration there.

Here is how Emily Bronte describes the experience:
‘He comes with western winds, the evening’s wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire.
But first, a hush of peace — a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress, and fierce impatience ends; Mute music soothes my breast — unuttered harmony, That l could never dream, till Earth was lost to me. Then dawns the Invisible; The Unseen its truth reveals; My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels; Its wings are almost free — its home, its harbour found, Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound. Oh! dreadful is the check — intense the agony

When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, and the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain. In all accounts of the non-verbal experience beyond the chattering mind, the state is one of a heightened sense of reality, an experience compared to which ordinary experience seems dull. Bronte’s poem is entitled The Prisoner suggesting that the boot is on the other foot.

There are different types of meditation, one form using the repetition of words. Alfred Lord Tennyson found his own way to the beyond (which is right here), this way. The words he used were his own name. One of his descriptions of the results reads: ‘. . . out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to resolve and fade away into boundless being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true life.’

Whether one reaches this state or not, meditation is the most relaxing thing that you can do, although to be true to it, it is not so much what you do as what you cease doing. That is what makes it seem so hard for us. Used to a life of doing, where the ego is directing things (or thinks it is) all the time, with every action motivated by preference, desire and choice, we find it hard, almost unthinkable, to let it all go and just let be. Everybody, everywhere yearns for this state, but it is sought here in this world, where only its shadow exists. It is what we seek in pleasure, particularly the high-powered pleasures: sex, alcohol and drugs. Their constant failure to satisfy our longing finally dawns in us, and if our life is redeemable, we try a truer and better way, by going direct. There is nothing moralistic in this; it is simply a statement of what is. Now this does not mean that to try meditation, you have to give up anything. Meditation has its own power, and it will function for your wellbeing. If it is best for you to stop doing a thing that is harmful to your real interests, it is likely to be realised and dropped with a little effort on your part. So, continue being as you were until you start being what you are. Thousands, maybe millions of Westerners have transformed their lives and consciousness by practising meditation. You can too.

Meditation is a subtle art which requires no mumbo-jumbo, dark rooms or incense. Anywhere will do. Distractions don’t matter much either. Of course, it is nicer to try it at first in a quiet place, but too much attention to externals is unnecessary. You can lie down on a floor or on a bed, or sit on a chair, or do it while waiting for a bus or train, or while travelling. Even driving or working. Take a word with a special meaning for you, or whose sound reminds you of good, quiet things, or a word with a noble or spiritual meaning. Words such as peace, truth, joy, love. Breathe the word in and out with the flow of breath and don’t pay much attention to anything else. When you drift off, and the chatter comes in, pay that little attention as well, but resume breathing your word. Two syllable words can be split, the first syllable used on the outbreath, the second on the inbreath. A good word for this type of meditation is the word for peace from Sanskrit — shanti. The syllables can be accentuated such as ‘shahn’ on the inbreath and ‘tee’ on the outbreath. Advice, difficult to apply all the time, is don’t criticise your attempts and don’t look for results! There is no doubt that this is the hardest part of the practice! The longer you maintain the mantra, as the word repeated is called, the more relaxed the body-mind becomes and if you do it lying down you will probably drop off to sleep. Take the precaution of setting an alarm to wake you in case this happens. You may find without this precaution, that you subject yourself to more stress by being late for something important, or missing it altogether! As part of the non-goal-setting approach, don’t determine to meditate for a marathon time span, but do it for as long as it is comfortable. If you have 10 minutes to spare, set the clock, and meditate till it goes off. Chanting is very relaxing as well, but unfortunately it is not an accepted part of our daily activity. Chanting away at a bus stop would be regarded as decidedly daft by your fellow commuters, so it would be better to find a private place for this next one. The most powerful sound of all is the sound of the human voice. It is represented by the syllables A, U, and M, because the sound made with the mouth open and relaxed is an ARRR sound. As the mouth is slowly closed and air runs over the vocal cords, it changes to AUUU. Then as the mouth closes, the sound becomes an MMMMM sort of sound. According to occult anatomy, sound has a profound effect upon the centres of energy and consciousness in the spine, doing either harm, by creating imbalance, or doing good by creating harmony. Chanting this, A,U,M, sound produces harmony in the mind-body, and relaxes the whole being.

This chant is best done aloud and sitting up straight. A deep breath is taken and the mouth opened wide. With a relaxed throat utter the primal A sound and keep the sound going smoothly and regularly as you slowly expel the air and bring the lips together. Now the important part. During all this you should have been engrossed in the sound, experiencing the vibrations of it in your body. Now hold the MMMMM and watch it intently. Let it fade away slowly into silence but keep watching it intently. Focus on the silence until you must breathe again, then repeat the process as often as you wish. This mantra will quickly centre you when you feel out of sorts, and out of centre. Some of the people who experiment with this will feel an immediate response from their being. Sensations in the spine, a tingling feeling in the cells of the body, or a pleasant abstraction of attention, or a sense of peace.
If there are definite sensations, don’t force it and overdo it. Rest and enjoy the calm for some time before getting up to resume your duties.

Books on the art of meditation written by sages of the East, where the art is a science, say that there are two ways to meditate: with seed and without seed. This means, that the first uses an image, or, like the method just given, a word. Meditation without seed is abstract, and has no verbal or mental image for support. Real meditation only comes into being when there is neither word nor image, but this is a bit hard to imagine! In the beginning seed meditations are needed. After the body-mind is calmed by the mantra, a poem such as Emily Bronte’s can be taken and repeated, feeling its content and meaning until the words dim and the feeling remains. The real meaning behind the words
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comes to the mind and the poem is forgotten. When this happens, the seed has bloomed, and the meditation with seed has become seedless and so, abstract. Anything can be used, but wise sayings are best, because they will lead to wisdom if meditated upon. In this way, word meditations can become seedless if the reality they allude to dawns. If peace floods your being after breathing the word for a time and only that exists, then the true meditation has taken place. This is a natural process and not one you have to manipulate. Another piece of impossible advice is not to anticipate the process or analyse it because you will analyse it away. Measurements and judgements are hindrances to the natural flow.
I prefer the word ‘contemplation’  or mindfulness for the methods of meditation because the methods are not the natural state. Remember that the real state of meditation or mindfulness is non-verbal realisation, and does not occur in the beginning at least, when the mind is active.

Seedless meditations and mindfulness are complex and involve manipulation of energies and complicated psycho-physical procedures, and should not be attempted because they can be very dangerous. It really is playing with fire! Many contemplations can be a great help to a relaxed state of mind because they bring home simple truths we have forgotten, and place our seemingly stressful little lives in perspective. Here is my favourite which I call the ‘What is’ contemplation.
Lie down on a comfortable surface and relax with a mantra for a few minutes. Then concentrate on ‘feeling’ your body. Think of its shape and the surface it is on and its coverings. Consider the material from which they are made — that they are in fact one long piece of fibre. Consider and realise all your surroundings. The carpet. The furniture. Everything. Realise their intrinsic nature, the basic material they are made from. Consider in the same way the detail of the walls, the floor, the ceiling, all in relation to your body. See your body lying there, within that room. Then see it within the dwelling, and the other rooms. Imagine then, that your attention is drifting up over the house or building and you can see your body in that room, in that structure, in the surrounding area. Go higher, see the district, higher yet, the state, the details of land formations, towns and cities. Then drift higher, till they become indistinct, 1 but you can see the whole country. Drift higher still until whole areas of the world can be seen, then hemispheres, up, up, through the electrically charged layers, the ozone belt, where the little
blue-green world shimmers dimly against the blackness of deep space. Peeling’ the other way, the moon drifts past, glowing soft yellow, asleep and silent. See the craters on the dead moon fade as you travel out until the moon is a speck and the earth is a dot. Go to the limits of your imagination and knowledge. Then drift slowly back, as you came. ‘Feel’ the moon getting bigger, till it is huge and your attention is travelling past it and you see the earth a bright dot amongst the stars of heaven. Drift down, down, closer and closer, through the ozone layers, into the atmosphere, with the earth glowing blue-green and large now. See the hemispheres, whole areas of earth, whole land masses, your country, the detail of the land mass, oceans, rivers, mountains. See the location of your area, and drift toward it. See your district, town or city far off. Closer now, the surrounding blocks or area, down, slowly down to a few hundred feet above your dwelling. See the structure, the roof and local detail, down through the roof and into the room. See the whole room, its walls, floor, their spacial arrangements, the coverings and furnishings, your position, all the details about where you are lying. Feel your clothes. Contemplate their nature. Feel your skin within your clothes and your flesh and tissues and bones and blood and breathing.
Have a stretch and a yawn but don’t bounce up. There is very little chance that you will want to move, so take it easy for a while. Stretch again, look around, and get up slowly. The psychological effect of this contemplation is very profound and deeply relaxing. It is also very refreshing to tired psyches and certainly helps put things into perspective.
Each meditation system has its own advantages which you will come to understand. Some you will find more suitable to your nature than others, but in order to find this out you will have to do them all more than once. Let your developing intuition be your guide. Certain days and times are more applicable to one or the other, and vice versa, so don’t make any rules.