Census 2010: Personal Spiritual Growth – Wednesday

Meditation

Meditation is nothing fancy or complicated.  Webster’s defines meditation as ‘to ponder or reflect on; to muse over’.  It really is pretty straight forward and you already probably meditate more than you think.  It is simply filling your mind with a subject and thinking about it.  Every time you stop and think about a problem that you need to solve, you are meditating by filling your mind with the problem and thinking about what it will take to solve it.  Every time you worry, you meditate by filling your mind with some kind of fear and working out the negative consequences of that fear.  If you study for a test, you are meditating on the subject and thinking about it.  The question is not whether we meditate but what do we meditate upon, what is it that we are filling our mind with?

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