Meditation is absolutely essential both for self-healing and spirit growth. The modern society offers us many artificial goals: money, fame, career, possessions and sensual pleasures. You are supposed to look a certain way, behave a certain way, be interested in certain things and enjoy certain things. Yet, you have already awakened to realize the vanity of these attractions. From the spiritual perspective, the main value of life is the opportunity for spiritual growth. It is growing the purity, power, and integrity of the spirit that matters. All material goals are temporary and illusionary. They can be nice tools and prompts for the spiritual growth but their value is temporary.
As you get experience and mature, you discover that the main answers are not to be sought outside of your consciousness, but inside. You discover that your inner life is of primary importance.
Modern people are trapped in their daily routine and external pleasures. They look for external approval of other people, are so busy working and having fun after work that they forget about their inner life. But sometimes, maybe after a big shakeup, people awaken to the realization that inner life is underdeveloped.
It is very important to pay attention in your inner life - and meditation is one of the best ways to face your own consciousness and engage in your inner life.
In meditation, you disconnect from the outer world and focus inside. For some people, it is difficult to look into their own soul because they find much of hidden fear, anger, grief and pain. Processing and resolving these negative energies is one of the goals of meditation. Another goal is to connect to your spirit and through your spirit, to connect to God directly. In essence, meditation is a phone line to God. During meditation, you upload to the Creation all your problems and download the answers.
Keep in mind that your physical health and the health of your soul are tightly linked. The physical illnesses which results from psychological trauma are called psychosomatic. In chronic illnesses, the psychological trauma, pain and inflammation often go together. It is the cause of frailties, allergies, heart problems and many neurological, digestive and skin problems.
The biological system responsible for inflammation is called the immune system. One of its functions is to hunt infections. Another function is to keep the seeds of cancer under control and to constantly eliminate any cells that convert to the cancerous state. When the immune system becomes too weak, it allows cancer and infections. When immune system becomes overly active and non-discriminate, it causes chronic inflammation, such as in arthritis, psoriasis, allergies, chronic pains, sickness behavior and depression. Many brain disorders such as Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders are caused by inflammation.
In almost all chronic pain diseases, there is a combination of pain which results from over-excitation of nerves and inflammation. This is a self-activated and self-reinforced cycle where overly active neurons activates the inflammatory response and the inflammatory response in turn closes the cycle by overly activating nerves. So inflammation and nerves activate each other creating a self-enforcing circuit.
Even mainstream science recognizes the connection between psychological trauma, the activation of neuroinflammation. Mainstream science recognizes that stress contributes to arthritis, allergies, psoriasis and cancer. Stress is a psychological disbalance and is the disbalance of the soul. 'Psyche' is the soul in Greek and psychology is the knowledge about the soul.
What is not understood by mainstream science is the spiritual energy. The traumas of the soul could lead to disease not only chemically but also through spiritual energy mechanisms. The traumas of the soul produce negative selfish programs which feed of on the energies of the body.
This negative energy blocks the flow and amplifies itself. These negative excesses of energy are connected to cells through the cellular and magnetic vibrations, largely, through the vibrations of DNA. These negative energies reprogram the genome in the cells to behave selfishly and without harmony with the rest of the body. There selfish cells can induce cancer, inflammation and pain. Energy healing and meditation are among the best tools which help with removing these negative energies, blockages and vortexes.
One of the main goals of meditation is reconnecting the mind and the soul. It is inner work which integrates different parts of the mind together and to the subconscious. In meditation, the traumatic experience is uploaded to the spirit and becomes part of the accumulated collective knowledge. In return, healing is sent down from the spirit to the body. It is similar to healing that takes place during sleep, but in meditation it can be more profound and guided by your intention. Meditation is very efficient in reducing stress, pain and inflammation, and this is statistically confirmed by the mainstream science.
The nature of modern human life is very unnatural, pun intended. The stress of modern life is very artificial. The majority of living beings in nature are not stressed out. Look at the cats and dogs, they are constant reminders that life is possible without stress. Yet, modern civilization has developed many ways to stress out a human.
For many, being constantly stressed-out becomes a habit. People become workaholics and continuously are worrying. Even when these worriers have free time and could take time to rest, they still find ways to become stressed out. Many watch stressful movies, read stressful news and continue to be immersed in the stressful information flow.
Yet, a meditative state is very natural. It brings you back to the natural balance. Many traditional human occupations are balanced and non-stressful. Gardening, cooking and washing dishes are among those occupations which bring you back to the balance if you allow yourself to relax. These kinds of work are among the easiest ways to do a meditation practice.
Of course, there are many ways to meditate. They might look different but the purpose and the results are very similar. All these ways bring you back to balance, they bring you back to yourself and reconnect you with the spirit.
Here, I will describe a very basic meditation available to anyone.
First, you need to find a time to meditate. Some people have plenty of free time and some people have no time left for meditation. Those who have no time are usually the ones who are stressed out the most. In this case, the shortest meditation could be only 15 minutes once a day. But the most optimal for busy life would be 3 times a day, 40 minutes each.