The Power of Daydreaming vs. Meditation
Daydreaming
is some sort of a natural basic way to calm the mind while meditation is
basically organized daydreaming. We can say meditation is organized daydreaming,
and there are many different ways of doing it. Either way, the power of daydreaming or meditation is
still very much undervalued or even misunderstood.
Society insists
on the motivation or obsession of productivity or distraction. It is like, you
are either supposed to be productive or distracted!
In the area
of distractions most of the younger people spend infinite time playing games or
watching movies or series, where adults/educators contribute or work to destroy
daydreaming in youth, until most forget or become incapable to enter the
daydream state that was once normal or second nature. The word “bored” is often
heard from these youngsters, but it is heard as well by the adults who have
become so entangled in their beliefs that productivity is THE WAY to being
successful –or the way to be - that relaxing and becoming still to hear
themselves or nature, makes them more and more out of touch with their inner
selves. I am often curious as to what makes these people happy, or if they know
what it really is.
What makes
you happy? Or better – are you happy? Where is your joy?
Contemplation is the highest form of happiness, it is philosophical
wisdom. This involves the scientific understanding and the intuitive knowledge
of eternal first principles combined with demonstration. Of all the pleasures
in life, contemplation is the most continuous and self-sufficient. It aims at
nothing outside of itself. Nothing outside of the self matters more and nothing
outside of the self is needed because the self is complete.
Either contemplating
the inner self or the outer world is a continuous wonderful learning process in
life that should be continued or newly taught, motivated and valued; when we
learn to observe we learn what life is.
The simple
pleasure of contemplation is present in daydreaming and meditation,
independently of the method used for meditation.
Distractions
are good but the need for a constant distraction is often the underlying condition
of denial, hiding away or running away from thinking about life as it really is;
it’s living in a parallel reality of the book being read, the movie being seen
or the game being played. It is the way many people find to run away from
themselves. What are they afraid of?
At this
time, as Earth slowed down with less noise around her, the air became clearer
and more pleasant to breathe, it is perfect to try out and exercise contemplation
via daydreaming or meditation, or both, and give it the power it needs to become,
again, a natural motivation for the bliss of being alive in this lifetime.
Much Love
and Light!
