shhhh! she is meditating

I could be thought as a semi-materialist before I started researching and doing yoga. I didn’t believe in any mystical religions, I didn’t believe in the holiness of god and angels, I didn’t believe in karma or the energy flows of universe. (I believed witchcraft though…) I still sometimes question myself when I feel intense during a meditation. Is it real or is my brain just making these up? Am I really feeling these vibrations or am I imagining them? Do I really have the whole universe inside of my body? They remain as question marks for me but what I sense is real and physical. What we don’t see or don’t understand yet are not necessarily “supernatural” things. They are simply beyond us and thus cannot be understood completely. If I didn’t discover those energies I am able to create now, I would probably continue to ignore their existence. What we call supernatural could be natural. It is just too much for us to perceive.

Meditation is one of the best examples of those. Moving away from the daily endeavours, household chores, business and people through yoga or meditation sometimes make me think that I just have time to take out my brain for a walk. Your brain needs a rest. Your brain needs to breathe like you do. If you disdain the power of yoga, you disdain the capacity of your own brain.

When we concentrate, we direct our mind toward what appears to be an object apart from ourselves. We become acquainted with this object and establish contact with it. To shift into the meditation realm, however, we need to become involved with this object; we need to communicate with it. The result of this exchange, of course, is a deep awareness that there is no difference between us (as the subject) and that which we concentrate or meditate upon (the object). This brings us to the state of samadhi, or self-realization.
A good way to understand this is to think about the development of a relationship. First, we meet someone—that is, we make contact. Then by spending time together, listening to, and sharing with each another, we develop a relationship. In the next stage, we merge with this person in the form of a deep friendship, partnership, or marriage. The "you" and "me" become an "us." read more