By Sanjib Mukherjee

Meditation is the art of letting go of one’s thoughts and emotions, and simply diving deep into the very essence of our existence. Science can explain how our bodies are the product of a male/ female interaction, but has yet to go any further in explaining where our actual mind, memory, intellect, ego and emotions and come from.

By moving our awareness beyond the body and the consciousness, we actually enter into a realm of energy which stores every layer of our being and in doing so, enables us to remove our daily stresses and unite us with the cosmic energies which drive us all. Many ancient philosophies have spoken in great detail about the infinite energy that lies within and how we are all universally connected, even modern science has started to accept such theories with the advent of meta-physics and quantum evolution.

However, for our purposes, all we need to know is that Meditation provides us with a unique set of tools to transcend our surface level awareness of ourselves and by focusing deep within our body/ mind complex, we actually can unite with a universal source of energy which gives us the renewed vigour and enthusiasm to be active in the world when we come out of meditation and back into an everyday sense of bodily awareness.

It’s much the same way, by sleeping you become refreshed and energised when you wake up. Thus, only by being truly relaxed and stress free, can one be totally active and in the present moment. Through deep rest and meditation, one becomes focused and able to channel our latent energies, this is how meditation is actually complimentary to action.