MINDFULNESS ON YOUR MIND

MINDFULNESS ON YOUR MIND

In meditation, mind is the main enemy we need to handle with care and full concentration. Before we can fight with this major enemy, I have taught you to lock up the 5 enemies first. Otherwise we will have 6 enemies to fight- very tough job!

In meditation, I want you to look inward into your inner self. Since your 5 senses are totally blocked (we lock up the 5 enemies). We then can concentrate our attention to handle the biggest enemy in our sub-conscious mind. Why can’t we open our eye and meditate for a beginner? Because we tend to see outside world rather than inner world. Our 5 senses (channel) allow good and bad energy enter our mind without filter. That is why our daily experiences, education, movie we watch, the book we read enter our mind and stay in our sub-conscious mind for life time. Our mind is like a computer. When we download file to our computer, it become heavy and slow. Sometime our computer is hanging or out of order due to attacked by virus which we down loaded. Similarly if we are not conscious- we might receive some bad energy from our surrounding such as from our friend, family or movie without realization.

Imaging how much files we downloaded to our sub-conscious mind every day. If we multiply by 365 days x no’s of years we live. This is a huge data base. The worse thing is that we let it grow automatically without filtering every second. What will happen to us? We become a confuse person! Our happiness will depend too much on the how much good and bad energy in our database. We become emotion easily and sometime react too fast on small issue!  For computer, we spend some time to clear some of old files or some files which is not important any more. We also have anti-virus software to protect our computer. But, how many of us really spend few minutes every day to check our files? Maybe less than 0.00001 per cent!

Meditation at night is a very good way to look into the files we downloaded to our sub-conscious mind. We can scan through all events from early morning to last minutes before we meditate. By doing that, we will be able to clear those unnecessary files or bad energy which we received on that day (such as anger or jealousy, frustration). The amount of this good and bad database is what I consider them as bad or good energy in our mind will affect our life style, behaviour, believe and value system. Furthermore, if we receive negative energy daily, we will be unhappy and stress. It will eventually make us less confidence and unable to concentrate doing work.

Therefore, meditation is a useful technique to train our mind become more observance and powerful. We can then control our emotion and energy. We will not simply waste our energy to fight with other or use our energy to fight with our stress. I notice cancer patient spent too much time fighting with stress within themselves. They are not aware of how and where the stresses come from.  

Since we know what is affecting our mind and how it enter our sub-conscious mind. We can now learn the step by step technique to restructure our mind; re-train our mind in the way we want it to be.  In the first level of meditation– mindfulness on body, we learn the technique to lock up the 5 senses. We can control whether we want to listen or not, we want to see or not, we want to eat or not etc. When these 5 enemies became our friends. They will help us to stop new database to enter our sub-conscious mind. This is very important step in meditation. No more new trouble coming to us. We then have time to clear old database and some bad energy in our sub-conscious mind. Bad energy normally will appear quite frequent during your initial stage of meditation. It come in and out and need your attention. That is why a lot of student always complaint" I can’t sit down for 5 minutes, I will go crazy". Because we normally ignore the problems we face and it accumulated one by one and inside our sub-conscious for long time. When you go home ( inner world of yourself), it is like a manager whom have been in-charge of your inner world happy to see you back and quickly want to report thousand of problems to you in very short time. He has made many decision on behalf of you for long but not sure right or wrong. Some of decision he made might hurt you in some way and some might benefited you. But he is still not sure whether you like it or not. He will repeatedly want you to go through the files again and make your own decision - whether to take action on that issue or forgive it …..We have to be patient to listen to these problems.

My advice to you is that you must tell your inside manager that since you are back, you will take over his duty and starting from that day onward, you will make the final decision for all issues. By doing that, you become owner of yourself!  

During meditation, once there is no disturbance from body, you have plenty of time to clear all old files in your sub-conscious mind. Remember to delete the files one by one especially the bad energy file. Forgive them if somebody hurt you before. Past is past, let go and we can’t never bring back again. Live now, NOT in the past. Some people tends to live in the past and suffering because past bad experiences such as business failure or love issues. Wake up my friend, if you are taking your meal and don’t know what it taste or still thinking of the past ( even thing happen few minutes ago), then you are not living now. When you are walking pass a beautiful garden but your mind is wondering around , you will not be able to enjoy beautiful nature around you during the period of time.   You miss a lot of wonderful thing happen around you in your life.