Meditation and the Present Moment

Being present means transcending body, environment, and time.
Meditation is a tool to become familiar with the present moment.
By understanding the science behind being present, one can use meditation to reach a state of awareness.

To focus on change, it's essential to understand how to get into the present moment.
This understanding helps in creating a new personality and, consequently, a new personal reality.
A fundamental aspect of becoming supernatural is moving past the analytical mind.

The Tibetan definition of meditation is "to become familiar with."
By age 35, 95% of who we are consists of hardwired thoughts, unconscious habits, and reflexive emotional reactions that define our personality and run unconsciously.
The first step to change is becoming conscious of unconscious thoughts, automatic actions, and behaviors.
Observing these states allows one to become conscious of their unconscious self.

Many people quit meditation because they struggle to control their mind.
The mind produces 60,000-70,000 thoughts a day, with most being repetitive and automatic.
These thoughts often include negative beliefs about oneself and life.
The moment you recognize these unconscious thoughts and choose not to focus on them, it's a victory.
Observing thoughts without reacting is a form of self-awareness.
Similarly, settling the body back into the present moment when it wants to follow its habitual patterns is also a victory.
These victories accumulate, leading to a liberation of energy for healing and creating a new future.

Change involves breaking the habit of the old self and reinventing a new self.
This includes pruning old synaptic connections and sprouting new ones.
Focusing energy on installing new thoughts neurologically helps assemble new neurological networks.
These networks are groups of neurons that relate to thoughts, memories, or behaviors.
Repeatedly firing and wiring these thoughts makes them familiar, turning the thought into an experience.
Experience enriches the brain, reinforcing these new patterns.

We often live in a state of the familiar past or the predictable future, both representing the known.
The present moment represents the unknown, which is where significant change occurs.
To make changes, disconnect from the outer environment by sitting down, closing your eyes, reducing sensory input, and training the body to stay still.

Where you place your attention is where you place your energy.
Putting attention on familiar emotions or predictable future events siphons energy out of the present moment.
Returning attention to the present moment disinvests energy from past or future realities.
The stronger the emotion tied to a problem, the more attention is given to its cause, giving life force away.
Overcoming these emotions allows one to reclaim energy and build their own electromagnetic field.
This reclaimed energy can then be used to design a new destiny.

Meditation helps to transcend the body and the environment.
If attention remains on the known, more of the known will be created.
Disconnecting from the body and the environment allows for changing thoughts and creating something new.
Meditation moves us from living unconsciously as victims, controlled by the outer world, to consciously creating our lives.
Proper meditation should lead to changes in the body, environment, and future.

The analytical mind separates the conscious and subconscious minds.
Children are primarily subconscious for the first six years, making them highly suggestible.
Information received during this time goes unedited into their subconscious mind, shaping future behaviors.
Positive and negative associations and identifications form the foundation of subconscious habits and behaviors.
- Example of positive association: crying leads to being fed.
- Example of negative association: touching a flame leads to pain.
As children interact with their environment and experience new emotions, their brain waves speed up, and they develop an analytical mind.
Between ages six and nine, the analytical mind fully forms, dividing the conscious (5%) and subconscious (95%) minds.
The conscious mind involves logic, reasoning, faith, will, and creativity.
The subconscious mind contains hardwired attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and habits.
The analytical mind is always working, weighing past against the future, right against wrong, known against unknown.
It is essential for learning, ethical navigation, and decision-making.
Stress hormones can make us overly analytical, trapping us in past emotions and hindering change.

The purpose of meditation is to bypass the analytical mind and access the subconscious mind, where programs exist.
This allows for reprogramming limited beliefs and ineffective habits.
The subconscious mind cannot be changed with the conscious mind alone; one must get beyond the analytical mind.
Suggestibility, or the ability to accept, believe, and surrender to information without analyzing it, is crucial during meditation.
A thinner veil between the conscious and subconscious minds increases suggestibility.
Controlling brain waves and entering a state of trance increases suggestibility.
During meditation, the goal is to reprogram subconscious states by applying techniques to bypass the analytical mind.
Living in a subconscious program means actions run automatically.
Reprogramming involves writing a new, more effective program.

Given the benefits, meditation should be practiced daily.
We live in two states of mind: survival (stress) and creation.
Most people spend their time in survival mode, making creation impossible.
The next episode will delve into survival versus creation and understanding stress.