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Why meditate at the same time, same place for your daily meditations?
This question came up and Kalee asked me to answer it for everyone.
The goal of meditation is to change our state of consciousness and experience the fourth major state of consciousness, which we can call transcending or transcendental consciousness.
Each state of consciousness has a corresponding neurophysiology, so deep sleep has very specific characteristics... unique respiration, brainwave activity, skin resistance..... and is totally different from dreaming sleep, and is totally different from the waking state and totally different from transcendental consciousness.
It is through this continuous alternation between our waking, dreaming and sleeping (our normal lives) and the transcending of our meditation.... this alternating back and forth, day after day, year after year that eventually creates a fifth state of consciousness which is where transcending has become permanently established through waking, dreaming & sleeping. So there's always a bit of transcending going on.
That fifth state we can call "Cosmic Consciousness" or "CC" but that's actually not enlightenment! Enlightenment is much more than that.... and the subject for another discussion.
Meanwhile the question came up about why it's valuable and important... even essential to meditate at the same time, in the same place every day.
There's a lot of reasons why, but most importantly it's for our comfort.
Our physiology craves routine and experience shows that when you have a routine.... something inside you relaxes and makes everything easier.
So you wake up early and preferably without an alarm, you'll take care of your morning bathroom needs and have your shower and then you start your meditation before activity, before breakfast.
Ideally you have a place that you've set up where you won't be disturbed, and people in your household know not to bother you for some time.... 20 minutes or whatever your meditation time is, and you put your phone on airplane mode and you go deep inside.
If you try that in a public place where random things can happen, and somebody jostles you on your bus ride where you're trying to meditate or there's too many random sounds or music or you don't feel comfortable even closing your eyes in public..... it's just not as easy to experience clear transcending.
I have had, over so many years, in so many thousands of meditations, some profoundly deep meditations on car, bus, train and airplane rides but it's soooo much nicer and sweeter to establish a routine and find a quiet place where you're protected, in private and undisturbed.
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Why meditate at the same time, same place for your daily meditations?
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