Why Meditate?

Why learn meditation? You’ve all heard it before. Our life is busy, droning, fast, and hectic. Society is a big beehive of workers each a simple cog in the machine. The individual becomes estranged to himself. A lot of people need therapists because of internal problems that cannot be addressed because it will make one to sad to work. I’m not saying meditation cures this illness of feeling soulless. Rather, what I’m saying is that meditation is one step (a big step) in helping you cure that restlessness and feel some measure of inner peace. Learn meditation and you will be able to center yourself, find some balance, some breathing space where you could inhale peacefully and exhale your hectic life. Meditation for beginners can be very easy once you understand what it is. It is not just confined to the definition of some mysterious mystical connection with the universe. It can also be explained in terms of psychoanalysis.

What is Meditation for Beginners?

A lot of cultures and religions employ their own methods of meditation. They have rituals and codes that are simply touchstones for a person to help connect with his unconscious self. Really, it is a kind of exercise that a psychotherapist would prescribe to anyone which is why meditation for beginners is very popular. In psychoanalysis, the unconscious is the dark hidden part of your self where all your desires are kept in lock and key. However, these desires are caged animals. The more hungry they get, the more they wail and trash within you. These energies will eventually show in your actions whether you like it or not. Those who have too much hidden and repressed in their unconscious are burdened by neurosis, some even go insane in extreme cases. Now, social responsibilities, rules, habits, more pressing needs, or even “logic” are what keep the unconscious caged (the super ego in Freudian terms). Meditation helps you silence the voices of these social factors (the voices of others, the voice of the world) in order for you to hear the voice within your subconscious. Only by acknowledging these things, by feeling and then eventually accepting their presence can you ever hope to find peace and avoid neurosis. Meditation for beginners is not easy requires you to be silent. For a lot of people, it requires a lot of effort and discipline to achieve this silence and this discipline is exactly what meditation is. In the end, after you silence the voice of the world, you will hear your unconscious. And after you hear your unconscious, with enough time, you might be able to appease that beast and silence it (or at least calm it down).