2.      Relax 

3.      Make our faces look innocent

4.      Ease the dull pain in the head and discomfort around the chest 

Many people talk about how wonderful the meditation is. The first two effects of it are well known and the third effect is the result of those two effects. The fourth effect is what I strongly feel but rarely heard. So I want to share how I meditate and how it works.

How to meditate

1. Sit cross-legged on the floor
2. Close my eyes
3. Stop thinking and concentrate on what I see and what I feel

First, I feel brightness about the directions of my desk lamp or the ceiling light or if it is the daytime, windows in my room. Continue feeling the brightness and somehow it changes at some point and starts moving. There are no specific moving patterns. Sometimes the light comes from above like sunshine and sometimes it stays just beside me, and sometimes it comes from inside of my body.

When I feel some pain or discomfort in my body, I concentrate on the place I feel unwell. Then I notice that there is a dark fog like thing around there. I try to know the exact place and the shape of it as much as I can. The moment I succeed in doing so, the fog becomes thinner and smaller. (Sometimes it jumps to a different place but just do the same to the discomfort again and it works fine.)  I keep doing so until the fog becomes almost imperceptible. As the fog becomes thinner, the dull pain and discomfort I felt in the beginning become smaller.

I don’t say this method always banishes the pain and discomfort completely, but it definitely helps to attenuate them. Sometimes, before I concentrate on the pain, the moving lights gulp the fog and it is gone.  Either way, the fog becomes smaller or vanishes after the meditation. 

I just wrote what I feel and what happens to me when I meditate, but if it is helpful to you, I am very happy:-)

Have a nice day!

I always thought they are likely to happen as I have grown up in Japan where people find gods and goddesses in everything. So it is pretty natural for me to believe that things which are categorized as inorganic have their own mind.

But even so, when I noticed that some of my wind up watches stopped keeping correct time whenever I covetously searched vintage watches on the internet, I got stunned. At first, I tried to think it was just coincidence (because it seemed a little spooky) but it kept happening again and again. Finally, one of the watches stopped working at all. One day, I thought to clean the broken watch before I sent it to a watch repairer. I gently polished the metal part of the watch with a cloth and miraculously it started to move again and worked perfectly for 5 or 6 months.

The watch got broken again when I wanted a new watch and whatever I did it didn’t move its hands. After a few months, I saw the broken watch and thought “I own many watches but this one is undoubtedly one of the cutest.” I had a hunch that this watch might start moving again, so I shook the watch only a little bit and it started moving again. The watch has been keeping correct time since then.

Surprisingly, the same incident happened to another wind up watch too!

 To me it seems like they have emotions. When we love our possessions we treat them pretty nicely and they know our love and happily work for us. But once these things detect that our love toward them become smaller than their expectations, they get cross and do not work for us obligingly.

Above mentioned is one of the two hypotheses I have. The other one is that we automatically give our energy to the things when we love them.

In Japanese there is an expression “Ki ni i lu”. The meaning of it is close to “like”. But if I translate that expression word by word, it will be “Getting into the energy (field)”. Isn’t it interesting? When we like something, we express the thing gets into our energy. This expression is quite common but I have never thought why we bother saying so instead of “like”. I assume our ancestors instinctively knew that our love was not just a philosophical idea but energy and when we loved something, we put them into our energy field and thus provided them with our energy.