How do you do it?
All you need to do in order to strengthen your intellect is to sit calmly and to think about nothing, or to occupy your mind with one mantra (a special word or sentence). Thinking about nothing is not as easy as it seems, because the mind and all its chaotic thoughts are used to mastering the parade, but with time you’ll learn to harness your mind, and you’ll discover the creative side of yourself. On that day, you’ll see that your world has been turned upside down, and the secrets of it have been revealed. And then you’ll be amazed at how wonderful everything is, and how much you can accomplish.
Here are some briefs of meditations techniques that are popular in the West. Maybe you’ll be eager to try one of them.
1. Buddhist meditation. There are hundreds of different schools of Buddhism, and through thousands of years they have developed a variety of different meditation techniques. But in essence they are all very similar: you should sit in calm and silence, and concentrate all your attention into breathing, or into some other kind of object (i.e. the fire of a candle, or blossom of a rose). You can attract your attention to the surrounding environment with your eyes closed. This meditation is practiced every day. The length should be comfortable for you, but it is suggested that you practice 20 minutes in the morning, and in the evening.
Some famous Buddhist meditation practitioners are: Steve Jobs, Steven Seagal, Richard Gere, Tina Turner, the Dalai Lama, and more.
2. Transcendental meditation. This meditation was developed and spread by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008). He started his spiritual movement in 1958. His meditation is derived from Vedas, and was given to him by his spiritual teacher and leader Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (1871-1953) when Maharishi lived in his ashram. The transcendental meditation (or TM) organization has oriented this technique the access of Western people, and thus it has a Western name.
During this meditation, you repeat a special mantra (a word or phrase in Sanskrit), which is given to you during your training. TM has no religion attached and is notable for its very scientific base. It is the most researched and commonly used meditation form in the world. No one can ignore TM after looking through thick books of research full of formulas and medical analysis.
TM is widely used in the world by such people as: Paul McCartney, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Lynch, Moby, and more.
3. Japa meditation. This is a purely Vedic form of meditation. It is also commonly known as sacred names repetition, because during the meditation you repeat mantras made from various sacred names in Sanskrit. This technique is safe and can be used independently because, like Buddhist meditation, it starts slowly and is strengthened according your own capabilities. Usually this technique is performed with counting beads (Japa chaplet) for keeping track of how many times you have repeated the mantra, a very practical and mathematical method that allows you to be more stable and consistent in your meditation. It is recommended to start with one Japa cycle a day, and to increase this number as time passes.
This meditation was introduced in the West by the well-known ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who arrived in New York from India in 1966 with a suitcase full of books. He astonished many by his perfect character, habits, and inner light.
Japa meditation practitioners are as famous as: Dr. Wayne Dyer, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Gilbert, Timothy Leary, John Levy, George Harrison, and more.
Meditation is the only known way to most effectively and almost without any effort clean your mind from the dirt that has come to us through our environment, but through our dull and hamster-wheeled thinking. Meditation lets your intellect blossom, so you can live an authentic live: rejoicing everyday as naturally as kids, but hundreds of times stronger because we can accomplish even more.
