Meditation is an act of the mind to free the mind, that being said how does one free the mind? Does that mean to empty the mind of thought? Or to have a union of thought and mind? Does one concentrate or allow the process to follow its own function?
It is stated that the mind is like a wild horse or monkey: running amuck so to speak. We are told to allow thoughts to come and go in meditation and not attach to any one thought. We all realize you can not simply not think and attachment is a natural by product! its part of the living process to think, if you look at this though a science perspective then you realize that what your doing is slowing down the electrical impulse of the brain, slowing down the brain waves into the alpha / theta levels. The main controller of these states of brain waves lies within the tense muscle system.
Now, to gain control of the mind you have to release the control of the muscle system of the body, but to release this control you have to know you have the control to begin with! That’s the point of Yoga and Breathing systems, to teach you that you do have control. The problem comes in with the desires of mankind, to always take things to the maximum point. In doing this we become wrapped up in getting the control and losing the whole point of doing it.
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