Meditation for the Western World
Why meditation?
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It’s hard to pinpoint just when the tide of meditation began to turn for coming generations of Westerners, but the seeds of change were planted in the 40’s by names such as Aldoux Huxley and Timothy Leary to name a few. I felt it was appropriate to set up this blog and start writing up mini accounts on the observations of the way meditation assists individuals that come to my groups. This way I can help everyone to have a better understanding of the various benefits of meditation. Strangely enough, there does not seem to be enough written on this subject of the experiences in the western world. Hence it being a perfect opportunity for me to do so.
As for me, my name is Senka and I’m based in Sydney. I started practising meditation when I was eighteen. I found I had an overactive imagination and could not fall asleep till 4am in the morning. Once I began a few simple meditation techniques, I managed to get myself to sleep at 11pm. Since then, I have been practising meditation on and off over 20 years. I have been to some really strange groups in Sydney, while searching for the one that felt right for me. When I did, I settled in and it was great.
Over the last two years I have been guiding my own meditation groups, as I was strangely enough pushed into it by a friend. I thought it was only going to be temporary, but when I saw the shifts in the energy within the students and the positive difference afterwards, well….I decided to keep it up. I’m guiding groups twice a week for now, as I run a small advertising, web design company during the working days. So, I guess you could call me a single white western female taking weekly notes on the benefits of meditation.
Where ever we are in the world, we will find a genuine teacher, or teachers, who can guide us along the inner path, to kick-start the process of meditation and deepen it. It is said that when the student is ready the teacher appears, a meeting characterised by a sense of recognition, or destiny. Ultimately, the real teacher is the inner guide, the wisdom that lies at the heart of each of us. The outer teacher points the way to the inner and introduces us. I will aim to capture the spirit of meditation and hopefully inform and inspire all who seek to understand more about it, through the real life accounts that I observe every week in my groups.
My meditation website is http://www.creative-grafika.com/meditation. By the way, please drop me an email. Would love to hear your comments. Either on the blog or email me at info@creative-grafika.com. Hear from you soon :0) Now, for the individual accounts.
