| To Reduce Mental Stress you must first bring about | | | | inward journey can also begin when this silence is |
| order in your life. You can sit cross legged and | | | | present. We see the external world through our |
| practice deep breathing for the next 2,000 years, but | | | | internal mental functioning which is our internal world. |
| if your life is in a state of disorder you will never see | | | | So they are both the same. So by observing the |
| the truth. All of the meditation in the world will not | | | | outer world with clarity, you then discover the inner, |
| help you.Without being totally moral in ones daily life | | | | and then you can see that it's all one movement. But |
| how can you even think of meditating. We all want | | | | to see this clearly your must watch and observe with |
| to reduce mental stress and mental anxiety, yet our | | | | a very quiet and silent mind. |
| personal and social lives are in disorder. | | | | Silence can not be contrived by thought because |
| Therefore you must bring order into your life before | | | | once you attempt to will something into being, it |
| you can even think about meditating. Please realize | | | | becomes contrived and just another form of conflict |
| that meditation is the most marvelous thing, when | | | | and disorder. Can it be something that your mind |
| done correctly. If done incorrectly, you have a | | | | manufactures, because you want to reduce mental |
| marvelous escape, but with little significance or | | | | stress and find order? Once the mind makes an |
| meaning. | | | | effort to manufacture a result, you are again in a |
| There must be order in your relationships, and that | | | | mechanical method of thought. |
| can only exist when there is no fear. Order is not put | | | | The mind through thought comes upon the past, |
| together by thought. When thought comes into play, | | | | meets the present and projects itself into the future. |
| there is further disorder. With thought comes the | | | | Isn't this what we do all the time? So then how can |
| recollection of all of your memories and conditioning, | | | | silence be contrived by thought, when thought is the |
| and all or your desires and fears. | | | | very thing that we are trying to stop! |
| The importance of meditation is in finding that silence, | | | | If you understand this, then you realize that this |
| that subtle quiet mind, that is free of thought. | | | | silence that we need to find order, and reduce |
| Biologically, physically, and psychologically, to see | | | | mental stress, can not be derived from thought. |
| anything clearly, requires a very quiet mind. To look | | | | Then how does it occur? |
| at the trees, the ocean, the sky, and to appreciate | | | | To see clearly, your mind must be silent. To hear |
| their beauty the mind must be very quiet. | | | | clearly, you must stop all of the mental chattering. If |
| To look at your life and see yourself and your | | | | you see the truth in this, then it happens! You will not |
| relationships with clarity, requires an extremely quiet | | | | need to make any contrived effort to be silent, it will |
| mind, that can observe and watch and see things | | | | just happen. |
| clearly without prejudice, comparison, imitation, or | | | | When you fully understand this truth with every |
| conflict. | | | | ounce of your being, then there is no conflict, no |
| It is so simple, yet we make things so complicated. | | | | fear, no need for some contrived method. There is |
| You must see this fact, the reason of it, the | | | | only the truth of it. Could anything be more simple |
| beautiful logic of it, that the only way you can see | | | | than that? See it, understand it, and stop thinking |
| something clearly is when your mind is quiet and clear. | | | | about it. It is what it is and nothing needs to change |
| You can not hear what someone is saying to you if | | | | it. The fact is the truth, and seeing the truth of it, will |
| you are talking to yourself all of the time. Your mind | | | | allow the silence to occur naturally and without effort. |
| must be quiet to hear and see clearly. So the endless | | | | There are so many secrets that Yoga and Meditation |
| internal dialogue must stop! Mental silence is absolutely | | | | will reveal to you. There are so many ways that |
| necessary to see and interpret the external world | | | | Yoga and Meditation can make your life easier and |
| clearly. | | | | more fulfilling. |
| The external and internal world are the same, so the | | | | |