What happens when we meditate? Everyone has their own unique experience based on a number of factors, including level of consciousness, amount of practice and ability to shift consciousness states.

We may begin by using the mind to convince ourselves that we are peaceful and have 'positive thoughts' or affirmations. This does have some effect but is often tedious and is inherently limited. The mind, in general, is the product of the ego. Thoughts emerge from an original 'I thought' or, in other words, 'I am so and so, I am a limited being, I live in…, I am a teacher…' etc. This is the backdrop consciousness from which all thoughts arise.

To have positive thoughts about this 'limited (false) self' to empty affirmations 'I am happy,' 'I am peace,' etc. is utterly fruitless as long as the 'I', the inner self image, is based on identification with the body or anything limited, external and perishable. There is no real power until this false assumption that I am a body/person is transcended.

A person, a character in a play, cannot be an Ocean of Peace, unlimited consciousness or the embodiment of endless bliss, complete and perfect, free of all karmic bandages, eternal and constantly Divine.

The sense of 'I am a human being' traps us in a glass box where the ceiling is based on the limitations of human beings.

Eternal Spiritual Beings

We are NOT limited human beings. We are eternal spiritual beings having an experience that includes the awareness of a human being. It includes the body, the role, but the one who is consciousness, from which the body arises, is beyond all limitations of the person perceived.

We simply need to drop this 'human' identity and allow the vastness of eternity to reveal itself in all its power. This is not something a human being can attain. It is what already exists eternally regardless of any external situations. It is not the ego mind thinking positive thoughts that brings this into existence. It is the nature of the eternal self.

Nothing need be done to make this happen. It is more a matter of moving the attention of the self away from the limiting lie that 'I am a person' to the underlying reality that the consciousness that I AM is eternal bliss already, constantly, eternally and is here now. That is as permanent and omnipresent as my true identity. Nothing except that remains throughout eternity. There is nothing to do - just release yourself from the one who is trying to meditate and open to what exists beyond the thoughts, beyond the constant shifting events of life. Life will happen by itself, so relax, let go and experience the full depth that is eternally present as yourself.

The true you has never done anything wrong and is constantly an embodiment of pure love.