{"id":3760,"date":"2010-04-11T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2014-01-31T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T20:42:18","slug":"meditation-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/astrology-numerology\/meditation-misconceptions.html","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of misconceptions about meditation. I\u2019ve listed some I\u2019ve come across teaching Vedic Meditation<\/strong><\/a>. Here they are:<\/p>\n

Misconception:<\/strong> I can meditate once a week to experience a shift in consciousness.
\n Truth:<\/strong> In order to reap the full physical, mental, and spiritual benefits, meditation must be practiced twice daily for 20 minutes. At first, students balk at this. \u201cHow will I have time to work out? write? paint? [fill in the blank]? I barely have enough energy as it is!\u201d But then they very quickly realize that as meditators, they sleep more soundly and require less sleep because they are resting at a level 2 to 5 times deeper than sleep, twice a day in their meditation practice. Because of this, they wake earlier in the morning, refreshed. The student quickly becomes addicted to their new twice-daily practice.<\/p>\n

Misconception:<\/strong> I will become a passive \u201cbliss bunny\u201d if I learn to meditate.
\n Truth:<\/strong> Yes, you will experience bliss \u2013- how can you help it? When we practice Vedic Meditation<\/strong><\/a>, stress production shuts down. The body is playing with a whole new chemistry set containing only those chemicals we associate with \u201cfeeling good\u201d -\u2013 serotonin, anandamides, endogenous opiades, fourteen different endorphins \u2013- all surging, unchecked, through your body twice a day. But, as we know from exercise-induced endorphins, this process doesn\u2019t make you want to lie on the couch to stare blissfully at the ceiling. \u00a0Bliss chemicals give you energy and fill you with optimism and a plan of action. There is a famous quote in the Bhagavad-Gita \u201cEstablished in Being, perform Action.\u201d That is the true aim of Vedic Meditation -\u2013 action arising from the experience of bliss<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Misconception:<\/strong> Meditation is a religious ritual -\u2013 it will \u201cmake\u201d me Buddhist or Hindu.
\n Truth: <\/strong> Vedic Meditation is a practice, not a religion. It allows you to connect to higher Self. This Self is that which we hold sacred and unchanging, even in its evolution \u2013- you may label it God, Nature, or the Universe. The Vedanta expresses it this way, \u201cI am That. Thou art That. All of this is nothing more or less than That.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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