Meditation

Meditating 5 minutes a day can make you 10% happier. Why? Because living in your head often isn't realistic. Observing your breathing for example for 5 minutes and not allowing your mind to wander away from observing your breathing for 5 minutes a day might lower your blood pressure, prevent psoriasis, and make you more peaceful in general in your life. Why? because it tends to change your immune system, slow down your heartrate, decrease the areas of stress in your brain and increase your more positive and peaceful areas in your brain. In other words it completely strengthens your immune system to be stronger than before.

Another technique that is in some ways similar to observing your breath while not allowing yourself to think about anything else for 5 minutes a day is:

Looking for the source of your thoughts. Often this type of meditation is taught in Vipassana 10 day retreats without speaking, radio, reading, or TV or Internet as a group.

What one does is to only look for the source of one's thoughts, no other thought is allowed or accepted. Often the experience is of your subconscious mind and everything good and bad in your life goes flying by sort of like your mind throwing up everything there.

One has to be a zero in one's mind before one can be a one. In other words you must empty the cup of your brain at a certain point to let more stuff in. This is important for a long life.

So, one's experience would be sort of like driving in a car with everything moving by you and only looking for one sign out of a 100 or 1000. So, you are looking for the source of your thoughts.

This exercise cleanses the mind and frees it up for living some more and feeling likely younger in one's mind at the very least and refreshed. Some people like it so much they take a vacation and do something like this for 10 days straight.

The original 5 minute focusing on your breath meditation came from ABC News with Diane Sawyer today March 11th 2014.

As an adult when I began to study Tibetan Buddhism in the U.S. and India and Nepal with Tibetan Lamas I found one Buddhist prayer quite helpful in maintaining a peaceful and useful state of mind.

I likely have given this prayer in my mind millions of times at this point since around 1980 when I first learned about it. The point of it is to wish all beings in the past,present and future of the universe Bliss and the end of their suffering. So, imagine ALL Beings from insects to fish to animals to humans on this and any other planet, any beings that live in Stars, nebulas, Galaxies, being who might live in Dark Matter, Anti-matter universes or places we have never discovered yet in the past, present and future. So, this is pretty all inclusive.

Now, imagine them all right now attaining bliss and their suffering permanently ending. That is something if you can experience it right now that is incredibly powerful in a prayer reality. And "As a man thinketh so is he." and "As a woman thinketh so is she".

So, here is what works for me to be at peace. However, each person has their own thing that might work the best for them:

"May all Beings attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss
May all Beings be free from Suffering and the Cause of Suffering
May all Beings never be without the Supreme Bliss that is free of
All Near and Far all Grasping and Aversion"

Experiencing this helps to manifest this in the past, present and future. And if you can experience the truth of this 24 hours a day it will bring an amazing peace starting in your subconscious mind all the way up through all aspects of your mind, health, body and externally through your aura to other's auras and out into the ethers of the Earth and into the past, present and future.

To many of you this might be a whole new way of thinking. However, to someone with a background since birth of being able to think and manifest like this it is simply science manifested in the past, present and future throughout the universe.

In the end we all do what works for us in being with life, nature, God, The Universe (or whatever you might want to call Everything Everywhere and in every time and space.


Here might be a scientific way to look at this:

The more you hate the more you are committing suicide by doing this so the more you hate the sooner you will die.

The more you have compassion for yourself and all life in the universe the happier you will be and the longer you will tend to live while being happier and making those around you hopefully happier too.

This is science in action. This is what actually happens to people every day all over the earth.