How to meditate
Meditation is a conscious effort to try to stop all activities: no thinking, no motion, and no stress of muscles. When we meditate, any time in the day, cosmic energy flows into our body. However, since nature designs us to be active and expend energy in the day and rest to recover energy at night, meditation is more effective after sunset to before sunrise than in the day. Still, mediation at any time is better than no meditate at all. While stopping all thoughts and motion is the goal in meditation, it is easier said than done. We cannot stop thinking completely when we are awake, even when we are meditating. Thoughts are like the waves in the sea or lake. Waves can be high or can be low.
Meditation is a conscious effort on our part to calm down the waves in our mind. Just as the waves can seldom be calm down completely to a mirror surface, so are our thoughts in our mind. Meditation is our effort to calm down our thoughts to approaching nothing. That is the target. This controls how much or how little, or none at all, the rate cosmic energy enters our body. The more active we are, in actions or in thoughts, the harder it is for cosmic energy to enter our body. This is much like the more twisted a hose is, the harder it is for water to flow through it. The reverse is also true. Meditation is like straightening a twisted hose, so that cosmic energy can flow through it to enter our body.
The classic way to mediate is to sit down, cross our legs, clasp our hands and lower them naturally in front of the body. Close our eyes and mouth. Breathe slowly through our nose. Keep our body straight. The vertebrate should be straight while we meditate. Above all, try not to think. No thoughts, no worry, no emotion of any kind. If you find crossing your legs too difficult, you can start practicing meditation when simply sitting on a chair. Later, you can practice with crossed legs.
