People sometimes think that meditation is no thought. Believing this when I first started meditating really held me back. Find out what I learned and how I overcame this.

1. We are always thinking
Some people think that meditation is not thinking. In reality that isn't true. You
might not be critically thinking, but you are thinking. As long as you are conscious
you are thinking.
The only difference is how much our energy and thoughts are scattered, because
your thoughts are energy.
In meditation for example, you pull all your conscious energy into one place. You
are thinking, but your focus is on one thing. If you are only focused and thinking
about one thing, then you can't extend energy to think about it's qualities.
I had the hardest time with meditation before. I was trying to not think and keep
thinking out my head. It wasn't working. For some reason I didn't want to listen to
audio or do the type of meditation to focus on my body or an object. It wasn't
until I realized that I am thinking, but I am only entertaining one thought that I
understood what mediation is.
I made this article for people who are like me at one time, not understanding that
mediation has thought. It has a focus. That's why most forms of meditation tell
you to focus on your breathe. It is a consistent, necessary motion making it easy
to focus on.
You can think about empty space, a part of the body, or just the humm of your air
conditioning. It's all still thinking, because thinking starts with a thought and
thought starts with focus.
On the other side of meditation is scattered thought. The best example would be
a person who can't pull their thoughts together. Though I believe everybody can
recover from anything, you would probably find this person in a mental hospital
or under supervised care. Sadly that's what we do when people are thinking too
much.
More controlled thinking at a high level would be a scientist, air traffic controller,
or somebody with a job of that nature causing them to think a lot. Having your
thoughts running like this means you are contemplating many thoughts and
sensory details at once and back to back.

2. Honestly, the closest thing to no thought is more likely mindfulness than
mediation. If you pull all your energy into the present moment and live from
there, you have no energy in your mind. It's like taking your energy that is
normally used for thinking in your mind and pulling it into feeling and being.
This is just my take on it. Let me know what you think. The point of this thinking
article is to clarify mediation for some so they don't spend time frustrated with
meditation from a lack of understand. Also it was to give you both sides of the
spectrum of thinking. I hope that you enjoyed. If you would like to find out more
self-development and mindfulness information then please check out the rest of
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