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Throughout lunch at work, we talk about our vacation plans. After I’ve instructed my colleagues that I’m going on a meditation retreat in the summertime, the dialog turns to meditation. I don’t disclose to them what number of hours I’ll meditate, however inform my colleague, who like me has ‘Supervisor’ in her job title, and two smaller kids, that I meditate every single day throughout the remainder of the 12 months as properly. As soon as a day for 3 quarters of an hour or twice for half an hour. My colleague says that she additionally tried meditation as soon as a few years in the past, however didn’t succeed.
This brings us to a few meditation myths that I’ll now talk about:
Fantasy 1: The duty of meditation is to attempt to calm down
FALSE.
After I ask my colleague what she particularly tried to do, she says that it was a form of guided joint meditation that befell on a weekday afternoon. She says she was not in a position to calm down – she merely couldn’t do what the trainer instructed her to. She due to this fact concluded she was not in a position to meditate, she merely couldn’t do it.
Right here we encounter one of the crucial widespread misconceptions about meditation: that the duty of meditating is actively to calm down. Happily, this isn’t the case with Acem Meditation. For what might be extra tense than having to calm down for the subsequent half hour? In Acem Meditation, our solely process is to repeat the meditation sound as simply and effortlessly as we will – at any time when we will. Rest comes as a pure response from doing this, whether or not we realize it or not.
Fantasy 2: The purpose of meditating is to turn into senseless
FALSE.
When my colleague says she was unable to meditate, it’s in all probability as a result of she had quite a lot of ideas occurring in her thoughts that afternoon. Ideas she was absorbed in, whereas she was making an attempt to comply with the directions of the one who was guiding the meditation. Ultimately there was a mismatch between her precise expertise of her interior self and the interior self that the particular person guiding the meditation was making an attempt to assist her obtain.
In Acem Meditation, all ideas are permitted. You’re allowed to suppose/really feel/daydream something. ANYTHING. Sleep. Desires – something. All the pieces within the meditation that isn’t your personal repetition of the meditation sound is named spontaneous exercise, usually abbreviated SPA. The abbreviation is definitely fairly correct, as a result of you’ll be able to consider SPA because the thoughts’s approach of stress-free. SPA cleans up the thoughts by processing its unfinished enterprise. SPA is what occurs spontaneously in meditation.
The interplay between what you do (repeating the meditation sound as simply and effortlessly as you’ll be able to – when you’ll be able to) and what occurs is what provides meditation its processing impact, and which in the end brings rest.
Fantasy 3: I would like a meditation information or a meditation app each time I meditate
FALSE.
In Acem Meditation you aren’t depending on a meditation information (a human being), or an App in your telephone for that matter. The battery in your telephone might occur to be empty.
If you find yourself meditating, you must defend your self from sturdy sounds and light-weight, and sit in a great snug chair. It’s also attainable to meditate in a vivid and noisy surroundings (e.g.an airplane) if in case you have earplugs and a sleep masks, and even in case you don’t. You’ll be able to set the alarm on an old school alarm clock if you would like, or simply merely have a look at a very analogue wristwatch. The underside line this: Upon getting realized the approach, you solely want your self.
After taking the essential course, you’ll be able to in precept meditate by yourself for the remainder of your life, if you wish to. The overwhelming majority of meditators nonetheless discover it invaluable to satisfy different meditators to debate their very own meditation, hear about different individuals’s experiences, and be taught extra about meditation psychology, to be able to meditate higher themselves.
Abstract
Anybody can do Acem Meditation. With this methodology, rest comes as a pure results of repeating the meditation sound with out effort, and never as a result of we need to obtain it. Acem Meditation is a non-directive meditation approach, the place what’s within the thoughts is allowed to play itself out by itself phrases, it doesn’t matter what it’s. It’s not a purpose in Acem Meditation to turn into empty of ideas. Quite the opposite, processing takes place exactly by permitting your ideas to circulate freely and assembly them with a free psychological perspective at any time when we’re not utterly absorbed by them. Upon getting realized Acem Meditation, you’ll be able to in precept meditate by yourself for the remainder of your life, and solely want your self and a time piece. Nonetheless, most meditators discover they get extra out of meditation by exchanging and discussing their experiences with different meditators.
To conclude: Based mostly on their very own experiences with different strategies, or on what they suppose they learn about meditation, there are fairly just a few who imagine that meditation shouldn’t be for them. For them, Acem Meditation might very properly (additionally, and maybe particularly?) be the meditation approach that fits them one of the best. Together with my work colleague.
By Elisabeth Heimdal Wærsted – an initiator in Acem
Translated by Eirik Jensen
Photograph: From the environment of Acem’s retreat heart Lundsholm, Sweden
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