Solving Problems Through Meditation
Can you solve your problems through meditation? Short answer, no. Long answer, yes.
Wondering if you can sit for 10 minutes a day and a serious illness will resolve itself? I am sorry to say that it cannot.
However, if you practice meditation in the true sense of the term, then yes, meditation has the power to prove the most intricate and seemingly impossible ideas in the world.
Let me tell you a story first.
I have suffered from psoriasis for many years. I tried various medications and therapies, but nothing helped for a long time. As you know, it is an autoimmune disorder—your body reacts weirdly to regular stimuli—I knew my psoriasis was only a symptom and not a disease. Then I started practicing meditation, and it has made a huge difference.
The idea was to focus my life energy on restoring the “factory defaults” configuration of my body. And true indeed, meditation helped me to focus on the present moment and to let go of my worries and stress. This allows my body to relax and heal. I have found that my psoriasis problems are much less bothersome when I meditate regularly.
I would encourage anyone who is suffering from physical problems to give meditation a try. It has helped me immensely and I am sure it can help others as well.
When it comes to mental problems like stress and anxiety, let me quote a paragraph from an HBR article:
…researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD sifted through nearly 19,000 meditation studies, they found 47 trials that addressed those issues and met their criteria for well-designed studies. Their findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that mindful meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and pain.”
Dr. Elizabeth Gope, a psychiatrist at Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorder says, “People with anxiety have a problem dealing with distracting thoughts that have too much power. They can’t distinguish between a problem-solving thought and a nagging worry that has no benefit.”
Coming to other sorts of problems, say financial, can meditation solve these as well? To this, if Einstein could prove the Theory of Relativity, why can you not solve something as simple as getting a job or growing your business, right?
You are probably thinking, “Wait for a second! Are you saying Einstein solved it through meditation?” Of course, he did. Let’s revisit the definition of meditation. You keep concentrating all your energy on a focal point to an extent where your subconscious and then your unconscious mind take over. Why could it not be a mathematical equation or the secrets of the universe?
Also, in order to solve your problems through meditation, you don’t need to dwell on your problem though. It means letting go and focusing on the RIGHT vibration instead. It matters a lot. You see, when you focus on the right word, the right emotion, the right imagination… you are intrinsically changing your whole self. It recharges your being, and that’s when your subconscious mind works the best to solve your existing problem.
As Joe Dispenza says in his book, Evolve Your Brain:
“Everything that makes us up, the “you” and the “me”—our thoughts, our dreams, our memories, our hopes, our feelings, our secret fantasies, our fears, our skills, our habits, our pains, and our joys—is etched in the living latticework of our 100 billion brain cells.
By the time you have read this far in the book, you have changed your brain permanently. If you learned even one bit of information, tiny brain cells have made new connections between them, and who you are is altered.
The images that these words created in your mind have left footprints in the vast, endless fields of neurological landscape that is the identity called “you.””
Also, I would like to add here that belief goes a long way when you are trying to meditate your problems away. You can’t be thinking, “This will probably not work. What the heck! Let’s give it a shot.” That’s the wrong approach, mate. Meditation is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It works when you believe it works.
That’s it for now.
So, struggling with a problem and can’t solve it?
Meditate.
