The Purpose of Meditation
Meditation has been used for many purposes–from calming and healing physical, emotional, and mental stress to experiencing higher levels of consciousness and achieving self-realization.
Most meditative techniques are a passive process where you sit and try to still your body and empty your mind and consciousness of all thought and feeling. In reality, that is next to impossible to do. Thoughts and emotions are nearly always present in the human consciousness to some degree and will continually bypass almost any attempt to block them out or quiet them completely.
We teach another dimension to the meditative process, which changes it from a passive technique of emptying the mind to an active technique of directing the mind and emotions. We call these active meditations “spiritual exercises” (S.E.s).
All spiritual exercises share the common purpose of lifting you into higher, more subtle, refined states of awareness and perception until you break through the illusions of this world into the consciousness of the Soul.
Source: http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/meditate.php
Most meditative techniques are a passive process where you sit and try to still your body and empty your mind and consciousness of all thought and feeling. In reality, that is next to impossible to do. Thoughts and emotions are nearly always present in the human consciousness to some degree and will continually bypass almost any attempt to block them out or quiet them completely.
We teach another dimension to the meditative process, which changes it from a passive technique of emptying the mind to an active technique of directing the mind and emotions. We call these active meditations “spiritual exercises” (S.E.s).
All spiritual exercises share the common purpose of lifting you into higher, more subtle, refined states of awareness and perception until you break through the illusions of this world into the consciousness of the Soul.
Source: http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/meditate.php
