BENEFITS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: Louie Aninion

BENEFITS OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

-        Louie Aninion

Peaceful mind, right decision, unlocking innate knowledge and reaching our inner self are some of the benefits that we can get from Christian Meditation as Fr. Prasert, a Redemptorist priest shared to us on January 25-26.

Christian meditation is simple and yet faith enriching. The objective is to connect with your true-self and find God within you. How to do this? First, you have to be still and calm yourself. When reaching the pinnacle of peace start reciting the mantra, ‘Maranatha’ or any simple thought you like, inviting the Lord to come unto you.

The first time I did this, I felt dizzy. My muscles stiffed. My mind wandered around. Fr. Prasert said if you are distracted just continue to say the mantra and always to go back to zero. Additionally, he shared that doing Christian meditation is, do not expect and do not compare yourself to other. This is a prayer from the heart not from the head.

Looking at our present time, I can say that it (the world) has transformed the lifestyle of many. The booming industry and technologies snatch out our serene life as it was. We become more anxious how to respond the demands of our world. Gradually, we forget to feed our spiritual life. We forget to connect with our true-self. Worst, we forget that there is God. This materialism and consumerism virus of our spiritual brings noise and block-out to our spiritual life. It consumes little by little our real identity as sons of God. This enslaves us.

This is not who we are. We need to find our way back to our true-self. We need to the stop this virus of our spiritual. We need to overcome this. Let us not allow that this defines us for the rest of our existence in this world. As the Scripture would say “Watch and pray.” We need to be vigilant and pray always.

This Christian Meditation experienced is very timely for me. This will surely drag away the materialism and consumerism virus in our life. This will help us to bring back our life into whole again which is not only body but a ‘body and soul’. It will aid us to be aware of our ‘ego’ which leads us to desire more, crave more for money, authority and fame and always jealous to other. Finally, be able to reach our true self and God within our life.

Thus, I would recommend to you reading this article to try Christian meditation at home first within 20 minutes and see for yourself how beautiful and worth to connect with our true-self and God than the world offers to us and how it will give you back your peace of mind, your very whole self.

It is true as majority said that not of this world alone that gives us peace, joy and contentment in our life, we therefore need to connect always to our true-self and God in our prayer like doing Christian meditation. In perfecting our life in this world through the aid of our Almighty God we can see and feel what is necessary and not necessary for our life while we are still continue living in this alluring world.