A Turning Point in the History of Humanity through Heartfulness Meditation
Every once in a while, we humans get epiphanies -- we have had so many different types of epiphanies, through all these years of our lives -- during our sufferings, our joys, our emotions, our own experiences of miracles, during realization of dreams, and of course our relationships, faiths and beliefs. At times, we move on to feel that our epiphanies helped us while they did, and at times we grow up to be different from where our epiphanies led us to.
So I had an epiphany too, in recent times.
Meditation, I felt is the next big catalyst for a turning point in human history. Humanity has always had these major events in history which has made us what we are today.
Photosynthesis was harnessed by some ancient tiny celled creature, leading to the great Oxidation theory. Some micro organism decided to expel out oxygen as a waste-product, and here we are breathing in oxygen today. Hominids evolved, and man came along. And somewhere down the line, we took to agriculture, organized religion and the safety of a society. Colonization happened, democracy gave way too. Vaccines and contraceptives happened too. The world kept on advancing... And no one could have predicted the next major move from Mother Nature!
If we had told the ancient barbaric man that the League of Nations would be set up in his future, he would have laughed it away. Yet, it happened, and here we are in the safety womb of the United Nations Organizations and in a safe world (relatively so to speak).
Christopher Columbus would not have even fathomed that we could travel to the other end of the world in just a day instead of a month. And yes, we are flying too.
The Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution giving way to Industrial Revolution, The World Wars, The Rising of the United States of America, the boom and bust of the economy with respect to Information Technology, and eventually the settling down of e-commerce, have all been unforeseen, but major moments in the history of humanity.
The world has always been constantly changing and evolving, albeit in slow measures that we do not even feel it. And before the change happens, we never seem to foresee it. We have no way of knowing what is about to come.
No, the ancient organisms (of so many billion years ago) would never agree that they would eventually play a part in the Oxidation movement, and get evolved into a very advanced species - Homo sapiens (who thinks, who loves, who types away on her keyboard all her ramblings, who mates, who is not a single cell organism but tampers with the DNA of other species and self on a very complex computer, who writes algorithms to control climate change, etc). But here we are - the greatest species known to us in the world!
So, well, change happens, and I feel the next great change to happen, is just round the corner. And oh, what do we know of time and space anyway (which is some food for my next post).
Every perfect moment in history which happens on the road towards advancement, has been fleeting, and given way to something more perfect and beautiful and profound!
Love, compassion, empathy, Heartfulness seems to be the most happening thing in today's world. People prefer to lead a holistic life style, filled with peace and contentment. Is this Nature's call? Well, who would not want to be loved and give love? Who would not want to live surrounded with peace and joy?
I have been trying Heartfulness Meditation since a long time in my life. And it has always left me with wonderment and contentment, at the same time. It has always helped me at those times in my life, when I needed it the most - in my personal life, in my professional life, and well generally in all those colorful moments and shades of grey moments when you need some other higher 'thing' to trade you through. But then ... we all know that, don't we?!
We all know the benefits of meditation. In fact I came across an article where someone listed at least 100 different benefits of meditation. There are a lot of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and psychological benefits of meditation, and we all are active enough on the internet to know these, active enough in our lives to feel it personally too.
I also came across internet articles which say how Heartfulness meditation increases the grey matter in the brain. In this Press Release Massachusetts General Hospital says Meditation alters the structure of the brain in just eight weeks. Another article here also says that meditation increases one's life expectancy, treats pain better than morphine, and even quotes a UCLA study that meditation may even help treat HIV. Oh, isn't that interesting?!
There is no denying about all the benefits of Heartfulness meditation. It is all over the internet and my objective is not to extol all its good effects. I just wish to share my epiphany here - about meditation.
I always had this question deep in my mind - is this the next happening thing in the world? Closing my eyes, and doing the Heartfulness Meditation, I ask myself, what happens now? What happens after I have meditated for all my life? Do I become a Buddha or a Jesus? So what happens after so many sessions of meditation for a practitioner? Does his perceptive ability evolve? Does he acquire advanced sensory activation? Oh well, I am not interested in advanced senses - because these five senses are good enough and I am happily leading my life today. So, I gain or lose nothing, with a few extra abilities, even if they were to come.
So what next? My stress reduces, my mind opens up, I become more joyful, more balanced, empathetic, loving, and a better person. And then? Well, I do not know yet. But I am sure something major is bound to happen, when everything is in perfect balance. Don't you think so? The mind, body and spirit, and perhaps some other things too (which we have not fathomed yet) in perfect harmony, symmetry, and beauty of love -- surely something would happen in this world, wouldn't it? The world is surely to be taken up with a surprise.
Today, when the concept of egregore is very easily accepted, when the power of positive thinking if very easily felt and so powerfully too in the hearts of many, when faith and belief does not stand in the way of acceptance of the abilities and powers of the heart, when humanity is becoming more and more open-hearted, definitely more broad minded, surely something would happen in this world, and something more too. The whole collective consciousness would be ours - each single individual's.
When a war could trigger the establishment of the UNO, when an ouroboros dream could find the structure of carbon atoms in the Benzene ring, when serendipitous discoveries like Penicillin, x-ray and the Big Bang theory could leave us spell bound, surely the power of hearts coming together with love, at the same time, could open up vast vistas for humanity.
When the conscious and sub-conscious mind merge in perfect balance, love and symmetry during a meditation session, surely we give them more chances to stay that way even after the meditation if we are able to retain the same feeling, the maintain same condition.
Untapped human potentials could be tapped, leading only to a better species, a better world, and perhaps we might be on the greatest turning point in human history. It is only logical, my left brain says. It is already happening, be intuitive to it, says my right brain.
And if all these take a really long time to happen, and we do not live to see them, we still would have gained those benefits of meditation, which someone posted, wouldn't we? We would still have gained a holistic lifestyle, health and happiness and much more!
The author is a practitioner of >Heartfulness Meditation.
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