Meditation Benefits
Due to the tendencies we create out of habit, our thoughts and emotions default to a habitual response. Without awareness, we dig ever-deeper grooves into our minds: habitual patterns of behavior that can be either positive or negative. Through awareness practice we can begin to see this process, and over time can disrupt it.
Every time we have a thought, it can be present for just one instant as it arises and passes by, or we can repeat it to ourselves over and over. For me, it’s like water—if you pour a drop of water on the earth, it can go anywhere. But if that drop starts to take a certain path, and the next drops follow, after a while the water will make a groove. Each time a drop goes down that pathway it creates a deeper groove and the options become more and more limited.
The awareness we develop in meditation is a way of getting us back to square one, where the water now has options of where to flow. Awareness is the key to resolving problems caused by our habitual responses. Let’s take the example of recurring fears. Maybe we’ve been in, or witnessed, a car accident, so whenever we think “car” we react to that in a certain way. And each time we have this reaction, we deepen the groove so the next time the stimulus appears, we have exactly the same reaction.
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Es cierto ya que según procedemos (lo que incluye pensamientos y acciones) vamos marcando pauta en la conducta y en términos generales es lo que nos definen como lo que somos.De allí lo que dice Jehová según Proverbios cap.15 versículo 7 en cuanto a que los labios de los sabios siguen esparciendo conocimiento, ¿por qué? porque es lo que han dejado penetrar en su mente de manera consecuente .La sabiduría de arriba drena cualquier temor y desasosiego.