Why we need to meditate and Pray every day

Why we need to meditate and Pray every day.

Not just an emergency measure

One session of exercise does not result in an instant good effect on the physical body, it takes repeated exercise to gradually improves any physical body. One tablet of any medicine, natural or chemical, rarely provides an instant cure. Taking one step does not mean you have reached your destination.

So why does anyone think that uttering one Prayer is going to bring blessings from heaven, down to them?

Our thoughts are faster than our muscles but less powerful. Light moves faster than most physical things but when it arrives it cannot move a physical object, it cannot, in almost any Newtonian circumstances, affect physical change- heat and light are not the same thing. If you shine an electric torch on a wall, the light reaches that wall but does not cause any change.

Consider the scale and scope of creation, why should one desperate plea for help from one of many billions of humans on Earth, which is one tiny part of a solar system, and which is only a minuscule part of a galaxy – the milky way- which is in itself is just one of countless other galaxies, that make up the known physical universe. If you then add the nonphysical, and ask why God the creator of it all, should even know that any particular human exists, let alone care about their needs? But still, we pray to God and Gaia, since hope is as eternal as creation itself.

Prayer every day generates its own problems, how does anyone avoid the “church” ritual of repetition of meaningless words? How does anyone keep the intensity of meaning, or focus of intent, when saying the same Prayers every day? Each person has to solve this in a way that is right for them, there is no right or wrong, there is not a fixed form of words that is correct for every human. One possible idea that may help some, is to keep a record every day of things that they can feel thankful for. This can be huge, like winning lottery, or tiny such as being the recipient of someone else lovely smile. It can be just having a safe journey, or good news from a doctor. When starting Prayers, say thank you for the events remembered or listed, this makes each day’s Prayer, fresh and original. Prayers for good health and good fortune for loved ones, can get to be repetitious, so one possible help, to keep the intensity, is to try and visualise each person as the Prayer is said.

The Taoists said humans stand between earth and heaven, so it may be that part of our duties, is to connect or to channel, ethereal energy to Gaia. To Link God and Gaia. Starting every attempt to Pray, by seeking silence and stillness in the mind, by trying to achieve the empty mind state and then allowing a flow of energy from above down to the ground beneath you.

Mediation and Prayer work faster than physical exercise but still take repetition and time because earthly human spirits are not fully ethereal, they are linked to, and so are slowed by, the physical. Ultimately it is this physical energy that gives the power and strength to the whole.

Mediation takes many forms, again nothing is right or wrong. To some the concentration on a single object is mediation, to others, the mind must be empty and the body still. A shut down of all except the automatic body that breaths and causes blood to flow around the veins and arteries. In all the various approaches there is one common aim, to shut out all the cares and activities of everyday life. How long a person spends in this meditative state is again a matter for the individual, but it does seem that daily meditation, even for a short time, is better at calming the mind, than once a week at some tutored gathering. By all means attend a tutorial but the practice is individual, it is as individual as the personality or the physical