How Does Meditation Make Your Mind Simple? Part 1 of 4

The goal of meditation is to cultivate a sense of calm, control and detachment. By turning deeply inwardly, we are able to gain awareness of the turbulence of our mind. Our mind is like a wild elephant with so many thoughts jumping and stomping around. We become aware how forces such as attachment and fear are such strong forces in our lives. Once we realize through this state of enhanced awareness, that all things are changing, one can adjust to the fact that one doesn't have any control over this constantly shift reality.

Meditation helps us to become comfortable with this self-understanding of one's perception. Yoga also holds that our consciousness is closely related to our subconscious in such a way that by exerting control on the conscious states, we can control our subconscious one in which are contained deeply ingrained values, beliefs and behaviors that may not be healthy or positive or beneficial for humanity. Since we often think and act in ways that we know are not positive or healthy, we often feel powerless to change. Mediation helps to gain the necessary awareness since it gives us access to the subconscious.

Knowledge alone is not enough in destroying unhealthy tendencies. A graduated practice of deep reflection that begins with steadying the mind on its subtler levels helps to ultimately uproot these non-virtuous habits, though-patterns and tendencies.

Contemplation and also meditation help one come to terms with the nature of transitoriness. All of our objects of pleasure are in a state of flux and fury. Wealth is as transitory as a wave, youth is like the particles of a dandelion blowing in a summer breeze and opportunities are like leaves falling off of a tree. Why should we be attached to material objects when nothing is permanent and everything is always changing?

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Throughout her 15 year yoga practice and teachings, Jasmine Kaloudis has experienced how yoga is a tool which allows us to experience our selves more fully and more richly.

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