This thing call MeditationVery often we hear the word Meditation and normally we think about sitting down quietly in
some serene spot in silence or we think about some deep difficult yoga techniques. How many of us really know what really Meditation is? Science is also playing a very great role in the concept of Meditation. Meditation derives from a Latin word “Medi” which means to heal or to cure.In the Spanish language the word for Doctor is Medico which means the healer or the one who cures. Just as in the English language the word for Medicine and Medication begins with “Medi” The word Medi simply means that which cures or heals. The word Meditation which has derived from this word Medico is the process of healing, where one is able to use their mental faculties to cure or heal themselves. The word Meditate means the healing process through the mind.When we meditate we not only experiences peace or serenity but at the same time healing many mental illness that are there within us is its hidden form. A body with out disease does not means that it is “healthy.” Health goes far beyond physical diseases. Illness and disease can also take on a mental and
emotional form. If physically l feel fit but mentally or emotional I am suffering for many reasons be it family feuds or personal complications then I am said to be ill. Once there is a imbalance in my mental and emotional stage, and I get affected and angry by the littlest thing that happends then how can I say that I am healthy? Healthy means unaffected by neither my mental nor physical faculties. When I have the power to go beyond all these and nothing can affect me mentally nor emotionally then l can say I am healthy.Now what is the process of meditation? Meditation is when I am able to focus my thought energy in a more pure, positive and constructive way, allowing only positive energy to fill my inside, that pure energy serves as a filter to strain out whatever negativities there is in me, allowing the body as well as the mind to remain in a state of calm and serenity. Negative thoughts which normally creates upheavals inside is root cause of almost all illnesses and diseases. Just as when I am ill I need to go to the doctor to be treated with medicines or medications, meditation serves as the medication to prevent as well as destroy these illnesses, since all our illnesses is psychosomatic When I Meditate I not only is healing myself but I am also helping those around me to be, think and act the same way. The peace and the calm that l experience from Meditation allows others around me to feel and experience same. So I am not healing myself but I can be instrument to heal a community, a society, a country and as a matter of fact I am healing the world. There is the saying that my transformation becomes part of the Solution. So healing of the world begins with the healing with each one of us.