What Meditation Can Do & How Meditation Changed My Life

Let me tell you my personal story of meditating with chakras turning to a meditative state of mind and body. My story will give you a clear picture of what meditation can do and how meditation changed my life.

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It just happened accidentally one day. This was when I suddenly started seeing everything crystal clear in the field of my vision far and wide. Till that point of time, I had been a lifelong myopia patient with diopter power minus 2.25 in my eyes. I had almost never used specs as I felt uneasy whenever I wore them. Somehow I had kept working with my myopic eyes seeing near sufficiently clear though somewhat blurred far and wide. In fact I had got used to it and accepted it as a compromised lifestyle of mine.

But whoever writes it had something else written in the book of my destiny. And there I was seeing everything crystal clear in the field of my vision far and wide!

I had just stretched my body to come out of its rigidity of having stood motionless for long.

Never had I seen so clear throughout my life! I even forgot blinking and kept reading the smallest letters written on advertising panels that I had never read before.

Back to Blur

But as soon as I blinked and reopened my eyes, everything went back as blurred as it always had been.

I was disappointed. But by then my body had silently and secretly learned the exact technique of repeating the same visual acuteness again. It was although my mind had not yet been able to comprehend the entire procedure in its subtlety.

“Was it a magic?” I (in fact my mind) thought.

No, it was meditation, a spontaneous one, as my mind much later came to analyze fully after two full years. And it had been a total one in its spontaneity!

It took me two long years to turn my accidental discovery to a methodical system of skeletal meditations changing lives. I have named my entire system of skeletal meditations changing lives as Skeletal Leap. And I call Skeletal Leap the mother of all meditations on earth.

What Meditation Is

I didn’t have to sit for meditation with an agenda in my mind. I had just wanted to relax my body through stretching it. And that stretching accidentally went so comprehensive that it suddenly did the miracle within no time. It spontaneously relaxed not only my body but also my mind.

That is what meditation is. It simply aims at relaxing our body and our mind to their fullest.

And it is spontaneous. If we sit long hours for it, there is something wrong somewhere along the process that we are doing.

It’s not only spontaneous, it can easily become a permanent state of our body and our mind. If it successfully happens so, we don’t need to sit for meditation any more, ever again.

Total freedom! Salvation!

That was what I had achieved.

How Long Meditation

There are two answers to it. The less the time, the better the meditation! That way, it tends to be more intense.

The second answer is that it should never end. It should turn into a meditative state of body AND of mind 24 x 7 x 365.

Obviously, the second answer is a better alternative. But until we have achieved such a meditative state, the first answer holds good. The duration of time doesn’t matter, the intensity of meditation does.

How Often Meditate

This question again has two answers. If we have been able to achieve a meditative state permanently, we don’t need sitting for meditation ever again. We only need to be aware of not losing this state by turning negligent.

The second answer is for those of us who haven’t yet been able to achieve a permanent meditative state. In that case, we should meditate as often as possible though in short spurts of time. That way we can make it more intense and at times absolutely spontaneous. We don’t really need to sit for it after a long preparation as a ritual. We just need to play with it whenever possible while walking, lying down, running or even while talking to someone. More so, we can play with it even while doing the so-called bad things like smoking, drinking or having sex!

Just keep in mind, the intensity of meditation is way more important than its duration.

Intensity of meditation means the extent of relaxation in the body and in the mind. But mind it that relaxation doesn’t mean lethargy as many people confused between lethargy with relaxation. Lethargy tends to make us sleepy whereas relaxation tends to turn us wakeful.

Why Meditation Is Important

Meditation is important because it promises a personal heaven on earth to us. It leads us to a perfect state of biological health, mental health and spiritual health replete with cosmic energy flow.

Meditation enables us to be in peace with ourselves individually, paving way to create a peaceful world around us.

Also it fills us with intelligent insights to mend our deteriorating sociocultural institutions creating a colorful world around. In short it paves the way to a collective heaven on earth ultimately!

How Meditation Changes The Brain

Mind in its evolution along human culture and human society has fragmented itself in many parts. These fragmented parts are always in a state of war with one another. They keep wasting their energy in an unproductive way. As a further result the organism is thrown into a state that lacks energy.

Anatomically, it gets affected by habitually posturing the skeleton in an unnatural manner at its joints. Skeleton does it to itself through mind by drooping its 360 joints down and tucking them in. This further gets flared by the muscles in their vicinity getting rigidified and thus changing their habitual anatomy. Both these structural changes affect nerves and blood vessels as well.

It gives birth to closed chakras along the length of the spinal cord. If we look at it from a neurological perspective, it stops vagus nerve from carrying signals effectively. They block the much needed dialogue between the gut and the brain needed to keep the nervous system functioning properly. That’s how the materialistic physiological approach of life looks at it.

Let’s look at it from the angle of vitalistic approach of life and the mind body system. Surprisingly, the vitalistic approach also talks of closed chakras along the spinal cord blocking the flow of Kundalini. Kundalini is the life-energy designed to flow through the nerve named Sushumna along the spinal cord. Brain works optimally when Kundalini flows unblocked through Sushumna between the root chakra (gut) and the crown chakra (brain).

Similarity between The Two Approaches

The similarity in the physiological descriptions of two diametrically opposite philosophical approaches to life has always kept me extremely intrigued.

Maybe the two approaches are two different ways of looking into the same reality from two different angles!

Time will tell.

Anyway, the deformed psychology of mental structure affects the physiology of the human body in a negative manner. It compromises the capacity of tenth cranial nerve to carry signals or else Kundalini through it in an uninhibited way. The result is a neurophysiologically compromised nervous system of which the brain is the most central organ. That’s how a wronged mind turns brain wronged as well. Brain loses its spontaneity of thinking in the instant present as mind pushes it to past and future thoughts.

What’s the way out?

Either we change the psychology of mind or else the physiology of body putting it back right on the track.

If mind can affect body negatively, body can affect mind as well although in a healthy way this time.

Mind Needs to Go Empty

In the process of changing its psychology, mind needs to empty itself of all its beliefs including morals and emotions. It needs to be kept reviewing and comprehending what brain supplies it with, i.e., instincts as an observer alone. In other words, it needs to turn truly agnostic. It’s not easy. It scares mind to death. Mind really considers it as its death. That’s why it stealthily keeps turning all meditations into new visualizations, imaginations and beliefs instead of the old ones. It sheds old beliefs and embraces new ones like old wine in a new bottle. And it does so just in order not to get caught for keeping its death away.

That’s why and how mental and spiritual meditations at times get reduced to the level of performing pious rituals alone.

The ways of the body are concrete, however subtle they may be. We can always put a proverbial finger on them guiding them to be right on the track.

We don’t need to go for rituals of limited durations. In fact, we need to learn and be in the right meditative state 24 x 7 x 365. And we need to do so in order to make it the first nature of our mind body system.

It’s much easier to do it with the body through skeletal meditation than doing it with the mind. This way, every single moment is to be the moment of meditation in an absolutely uncelebrated way.

Skeletal Meditation Vs Spiritual Meditation

Skeletal meditations are physical meditations concerned with posturing skeletal joints the way they evolved to be postured supporting bipedal evolution. These are physical meditations aimed at achieving central fixation as opposed to the mental ones presently in vogue. They have a plus point that being a physical phenomenon, they are tangible and hence easy to grasp and practice.

Skeletal meditations work physiologically, aiming at turning the anatomy and the physiology of body and brain naturally functional. They’re meant to be kept so consciously 24 x 7 x 365 until they becomes one’s first nature. It happens when mind has shed all its psychological myths it had been living with all through our life. It needs to accept brain as its guide in the process of reviewing and comprehending its perceptions.

Being tangible, skeletal meditations are much faster and much simpler than mental or spiritual meditations. We just need to understand how to rightly posture our skeletal joints and then make it our first nature.

Once it gets successfully done, Skeletal Leap is in place. That’s why I call it the mother of all meditations on earth.

We are on the verge of revolutionizing our bipedal evolution, taking it to its ultimate completion via Skeletal Leap!

Let’s do it for ourselves today and for the sake of our next generations tomorrow!

How Meditation Changed My Life

First of all, skeletal meditation cured my myopia improving my eyesight to 20/20 for distance and N6 for near.
My permanent meditative state strengthened my innate immunity so that Covid-19 couldn’t afflict me despite my not getting vaccinated.
My permanent meditative state also cured my autoimmune tendency absolutely.
At my age, my meditative lifestyle has allowed no lifestyle disease to afflict my body or my mind at all.
Most importantly, I was able to awaken my Kundalini adding unlimited energy and joy to my lifestyle.
All this has enabled me to live my life with absolute joy and passion in whatever I do, courtesy meditation.

How Meditation Helps with Stress

That is easy. Now, I already have a well researched and a well documented system of opening chakras through skeletal re-posturing. Once the re-postured skeleton becomes the first nature of the body, the opened chakras allow energy to rise. At this point enters the role of guided meditation for stress relief pulling Kundalini upward. This rising energy aka nervous communication makes its path along Sushumna aka vagus nerve from the gut to the brain. The entire process results in a state of perennial joy and unbound passion turning the mind empty and hence light. The said state of perennial joy and unbound passion knows no stress in life ever again.

How Much Meditation Per Day

The more the better! The ideal state is to be in a permanent meditative state 24 x 7 x 365. But in the absence of such a state, we should meditate as often as possible though in short spurts of time. That way we can make it more intense and at times absolutely spontaneous.

We don’t really need to sit for it after a long preparation as a ritual. We just need to play with it whenever possible while walking, lying down, running or even while talking to someone. More so, we can play with it even while doing the so-called bad things like smoking, drinking or having sex!

How Meditation Works

My system of skeletal meditations works through opening all the chakras via skeletal re-posturing first of all. Then, with all the chakras via skeletal re-posturing, we address the extended exhalation of breath. The said impeccable procedure takes care of every single moment with passion and joy, with action or without it. That’s because breathing becomes an effortless action turning all other actions meditative as well, as and when they take place.

The procedure of Skeletal Leap rewards us with a surge of an inexplicable joy with every single breath. Every single extended exhalation rejuvenates the entire nervous system by keeping the mind emptied for its duration.

How Meditation Helps Mental Health

How Meditation Helps Anxiety

What makes meditation help mental health works with helping anxiety as well, it being a part of mental health issues.

What Meditation Should I Do

I consider Skeletal Leap including a series of skeletal meditations the mother of all meditations on earth.

Meditation on Chakras

Every single skeletal meditation of Skeletal leap is a guided meditation on chakras aiming at awakening Kundalini. The ultimate aim of Skeletal Leap is creating a personal heaven in life leading to a collective heaven for Homo sapiens on earth.

Meditation Turning to A Meditative State of Mind And Body

Meditation has been revered as a highly esteemed practice in human culture ever since human society took shape with evolution. Lately it has almost become a fashionable trend among the elite for their wellness concerns. On the other hand people having a deep faith in religion seek it as a religious practice. Thirdly people with different kinds of lifestyle diseases are also advised to sit in meditation by their healthcare specialists.

Its modus operandi has mostly been sitting in an erect posture with eyes closed for a certain duration of time. During this period, the meditators are supposed to do something specific with their mind. What that something is widely varies depending on what they want it to achieve for them.

Out of people’s top 50 concerns, 16 fall under the category of wellness. 5 of them fall under the category of religion and spirituality. 2 of them fall under material gains. A whopping 27 fall under the category health and healing, 14 of them being mental health issues. Hence people’s priorities for what they expect out of meditation are…

Health and healing
Wellness
Religion and spirituality
Material gains

How do they think meditation would be able to do what they want it to do for them? And that too, just by doing it for an hour a day? For the rest of twenty-three hours, they are again going back to their unhealthy state of mind body disposition.

Meditation Protocol

Sitting for meditation for an hour or so has just become a fashion to satisfy themselves of doing something good. It rather strengthens our ego further. Also what exactly do we do when we are sitting for it with our eyes closed? Here are a few things that people are guided to do in the name of meditation…

Chanting mantras or affirmations
Counting beads
Counting breaths
Concentrating on a thought
Imagining a sequence

The above kinds of practices just numb the mind sending it to a kind of stupor. It makes one feel one has gone relaxed. But that’s not what relaxation means. A lethargic mind is not a relaxed mind.

Mindfulness meditation sounds to be a better alternative at relaxing the mind. Mindfulness means focusing mind on a particular sensation, a particular thought, a particular thing or a particular action. People sit down in a cross-legged posture and start making all efforts to channelize their mind.

But mind as such is a fidgety child! It doesn’t pay much heed to their efforts. In fact it loves to keep jumping from one casual thought, thing or action to another like a monkey.

We try to discipline it with our determination. It doesn’t say no. But then it stealthily slips away from under our attentive control to some of its other casual concerns. We always need to keep bringing it back to the track that we have decided for it to move along.

Mind Is A Monkey

But the problem is it gets bored over there. The very nature of mind is to keep jumping from one concern to another. And the reason is that it is full of them not only consciously but unconsciously as well. It tends to keep scanning what all is there in its consciousness and below it unconsciously.

It’s this that mindfulness meditation at its best can take us up to. We always need to keep exerting pressure of your determination to tame it the way you want it to behave.

But then, who is this ‘we’ who is making all this Herculean effort to tame your mind? Isn’t it a part of our mind alone?

Anyway, even if we are able to relax the mind for an hour or so, it’s not of much use. We are again going to fall back into the same unhealthy disposition. How do we expect it doing permanent good to us?

On top of it, the very idea of relaxing the mind through meditation is contradictory in itself. Mind in itself is the name of an entity full of contradictions fragmenting our self. The fragmented parts keep fighting with one another making a noise. That’s what is called a chattering mind. The techniques listed above try to calm it down through turning it dull or through exerting pressure as in mindfulness meditation.

Emptying The Mind

But the only rational way to stop its chattering is emptying its content. That’s what we call emptying the mind. And that’s what meditation must do if it’s to do any real good to us.

But then it doing any real good to us preferably should not be limited to a limited duration of time. We should instead keep doing it twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year.

That simply means we should try to replace sitting for meditation with being meditative all day long. And that can only be done by making it our first nature.

Once it happens so, we no more need to keep sitting for meditation every other day. We need to live in a meditative way all day long. Once we have learnt how to do it, we need to say bye to sitting for any meditation again. We just need to be in the same meditative state every single moment.

We need to empty our mind for once and then keep it empty forever. That’s what being meditative means while talking to someone, smoking a cigarette, sipping our wine or even while making love.

How can we turn whatever we do into a meditation?

It’s possible when we keep enjoying what we are doing every single moment of it. It makes us fully involved into the action with total awareness as opposed to getting indulged into it habitually.

A Real Life Experiment: Real Life Meditation

Suppose we are doing something that we like doing a lot. There is every risk of getting indulged into its action by emotionally getting attached to it. Let’s take an example of eating our most favorite dish.

Even before we start tasting it, we have already conditioned our taste glands to taste something familiar that we like.And when we taste it, we don’t really taste it right now, we just taste our past perception of it.

We live our mental past while chronologically being in the present. That’s how mind affects the brain’s perception by limiting it to a false perception of the past.

Let’s Play A Game: Action Meditation

Now let’s play a game. Let’s pretend we have lost our memory. We no more remember its taste nor do we remember that it’s our favorite dish. It depends on how good an actor you are, being your own audience at the same time. Let’s start eating it now. We would effectively be tasting it for the first time in our life.

If we find problem in imagining loss of memory, let’s take our first bite slowly tasting it in its totality. This too will effectively result in feeling we are tasting it for the first time in our life.

Do you see a parallel between two actions? These are one of pretending losing memory and the other doing it slow in its totality. The result is the same in both scenarios. When we do something slow enough to do it in its totality, we have already kept our emotional mind aside.

And we taste the dish like we are tasting it for the first time in our life. This amounts to tasting it in the present moment. Liking or not liking it no more remains important. What matters is tasting it afresh with all its passion and joy or else pain (if so ever) of tasting.

Reversing The Experiment: Reverse action Meditation

Let’s repeat the same experiment, this time with a dish that we dislike the most. As we slowly taste it afresh in its totality, disliking it no more remains important. What matters is tasting it afresh with all its passion and joy or else pain (if so ever) of tasting.

When we do an action slowly enough to be able to do it in its totality, it happens. We are no more governed by our mind. It’s our nervous system that takes over the charge. And our nervous system is way more intelligent than our mind. It does things with the passion and joy or else pain (if so ever). All emotional strings attached to their past experiences of liking or disliking simply vanish in thin air. And it does things without ever emotionally liking or disliking them at all.

I don’t mean to say that always the slowness of action is what leads to its totality. At times, it’s just the opposite that works. For example, running to save a child from being overrun by a speeding car works totally when done miraculously fast.

In fact, all non-meditative actions are either lethargic or impulsive, doing the action either extra-slow or extra-fast. That’s what we call mental lethargy or mental hurry. When the charge is taken up by the brain in an independent capacity, the speed of action turns optimum. The same happens to the quality of the action as well.

Meditative Action

Mental lethargy and mental hurry have afflicted the human personality in the present-day world as an epidemic. The two are solely responsible for the human action going non-meditative.

But, as we just saw above, turning meditative all through the day in whatever we do is no rocket science.

And when we go meditative, we no more need to sit for time-limited meditation. Whatever we do turns meditative in itself. The mind no more controls the brain and is restricted to play its role that it has been designed for.

When the brain does an action in its totality, it does register it in its memory cells. But that memory is not approachable to the mind. That’s how the mind gets trained to remain empty and keep doing its job of comprehending reality quietly.

A meditative action done in its totality with passion and joy leaves no desire of repeating it again in future. Similarly a meditative action done in its totality with passion along with pain leaves no fear of avoiding it again. When we repeat them, they are entirely new actions we do afresh then and there. In both cases no conditioning of mind gets generated, thus always keeping it empty.

Habits Die Hard

But the habits die hard. Our already conditioned minds pose a tough challenge to empty them in the beginning. For example, when we go out in the scorching sun in a hot climate, our mind contracts our facial muscles. That’s how it may turn into an attack of tension headache for a certain duration of time. The same happens in a snowy blizzard in a cold climate. All these are conditioned reactions of a conditioned mind.

Let’s take another example to address this problem. Suppose we got an attack of tension headache. Generally when it takes place, we habitually tend to avoid it. But it keeps forcing its pain not only in our head but also on our psyche.

That’s how trying to avoid it doubles its unease on our system.

The meditative way to deal with it is to stop trying to avoid it. Let us rather accept it by sensing it in its totality. That’s what people never do in general.

What happens next?

As soon as the mind completely gets aside by the action of accepting it emotionally, the brain takes the charge. We start sensing it in its totality with passion and pain. The nervous system swiftly assesses something happening wrong in the system. It also recognizes the source of the pain in the muscles of the head pushed down and tucked in. As soon as the neural signals direct the contracted muscles to relax, pain vanishes leaving senses with passion and joy.

Skeletal Leap Keeps Mind Empty for Good with Real Life Skeletal Meditation

The mind remains empty until it goes afflicted by another habitual pattern of its conditionings.

This way, through being meditative all along, we can go on emptying our mind of its conditionings one by one.

But as we have seen earlier, there is a much better way out. The way is through opening all the chakras via skeletal re-posturing and then addressing the extended exhalation of breath. The said impeccable procedure takes care of every single moment with passion and joy, with action or without it. That’s because breathing becomes an effortless action turning all other actions meditative as well, as and when they take place.

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