The Practical Applications of the Power of Meditation

Meditation, Spirituality And Personal Powerpower.
Many people still today think of meditation asBut having an edge over someone does not
something that belongs exclusively to the worldsconstitute power in my book. I realized that it
of religion, mysticism and spirituality. The reasonwasn't knowledge that conferred power but when
for this is that those worlds deal with spiritualwe think deeply on that knowledge and we are
reality and meditation has the power to open theable to extract some understanding from it, that
gateway to spiritual strength and power. Butunderstanding can represent real power. And the
more and more people are beginning to realizeway to extract that deeper understanding is
that meditation is a tool and not just any tool. It isthrough our ability to contemplate. So I now
the Swiss Army Knife of the world of personalbelieve that knowledge itself is not power, but a
power.deeper understanding of knowledge can be
Meditation can open more than just one door.powerful.
Ordinary people are realizing that meditation is aPersonal Power In Everyday Life
tool that can be used to achieve just about anyPerhaps not the best illustration but how about
goal or objective, especially in the areas of selfthe writer who sits down at the keyboard and
growth and personal development, but also in justpounds out an article on some subject after doing
about any endeavor. The reason for this is thata cursory level of research. The article is average
meditation has a couple of unique capabilities. It isand acceptable by current standards. That same
the number one way to develop our attentionwriter may sit down and meditate on the subject
and concentration to a high degree.of an article and focus the attention and
Now I know that at first glance this doesn't seemconcentration deeply on the subject and suddenly
like a real bell ringer, but you would be wrong justbegin to realize ever deeper perceptions and
as I was at first. It turns out that these twoinsights which will produce an article of much
attributes are extremely powerful when applied tohigher quality and depth.
the activity of understanding.The administrator or executive who needs to
Meditation And Personal Powerorganize their thoughts on any given challenge in
Here is a tiny superficial example of what Iorder to come up with exactly the right solution
experienced using these concepts. I had alwayscan sit and meditate and tightly focus their
heard the saying 'knowledge is power' and since itattention and concentration on the project and
sounded ok I accepted it as such. But as Iachieve a deep insight from which innovative
developed my ability to pay attention andsolutions may present themselves.
concentrate on a subject, I began to develop thePersonal power is all about who is in control of the
ability to contemplate. Contemplation is the abilitythoughts our mind is producing? Are they the
to achieve a very deep level of understanding. Soresult of unattended random acts? Or are they
I revisited the idea that knowledge is power andbeing monitored by a conscious awareness, what
realized that this is true, but only to a point, andmeditation calls mindfulness, which allows us to
only on a certain platform. That is, if we aredirect out own lives rather than being along for
talking about information that one person has, inthe ride so to speak. Meditation is a tool well
say a business situation, that another person doesworth learning how to use because it also opens
not have, this gives the one person an advantagethe door to personal power.
over the other and this is interpreted as having