Meditation- The Way To Joy

Meditation, like other form of ‘trance’ state, allows a bridging of the conscious and subconscious. It is of value then as a meditator to have some understanding of the subconscious mind and it’s workings.

In the process of my last move, I came across two cassettes entitled “Your body is your sub-conscious mind, that I’d never made time to listen to.” On the cassettes are a talk and an interview with Candace Pert, a neuroscientist and the author of ‘Molecules of Emotion’. Pert spoke about research indicating that each cell of our body has intelligence. In technical terms it boils down to the presence of neuropeptides and their receptors, which I won’t be explaining here! She also mentioned that such neuropeptides and receptors are found in the most basic single cell organisms, leading her to conclude that all living things have feelings!

Our feelings register our direct experience of each moment, and they do this whether we are paying attention to them or not. For most of us most of the time we are not. Our culture, education and habits are thought oriented and dominated by rationality. We are conditioned this way. Unfortunately most of the time this dominance of thought is

at the expense of connection to our feelings.
In the Tri-Une model of the mind I work with, the dominant rational part is our conscious mind and the feeling part the sub-conscious, our subconscious also remembers everything we felt – ever. Within the subconscious is the superconscious, the One, where nothing is, ever was or will be conditioned or separate.

Where we experience problems or conflict in ourselves, the conscious mind, the subconscious and the superconscious are out of alignment. We could say that where there is separation between what we think from what we feel, and from what we feel from what we are. We will experience that separation as problems and conflict in ourselves. When we are disconnected from what is felt within us, we project it outwards as how we experience what and who is around us on the outside. If you’ve followed me this far you will see that this is a catch 22 situation. If we’re not connected to our feelings and have problems, conflict or suffering, and are projecting that outwards and seeing it as the world we live in, where is the space to break the cycle to bring conscious awareness to what exists and drives us from within the subconscious? We need some means of stepping out of the cycle and turning inwards, often we need a guide in that. Healing of our problems, conflicts and suffering is complete when the subconscious is made conscious and both come into alignment with our true nature, the superconscious. There is nothing conditioned in us that can’t change and be healed. Meditation can be practiced with this understanding a space in which we can be with ourselves in such a way to create a break in the feeling into projection cycle. With experience meditation becomes the ground on which we can meet our deepest fears and pains in the process of their release and healing.

To come back to Candace Pert and biology, when asked what in her view made us different in our feeling experience to other life forms she replied it is the development of the frontal cortex of our brain. Pert went on to explain that the frontal cortex allows us to recognise what is driving our behaviour (subconscious feeling) and to make a different choice if that behaviour creates problems, conflict or suffering. If or when that new choice brings our conscious, subconscious and superconscious into alignment we experience the other gift of our unique frontal cortex, joy of being.

There is a growing body of scientific data that shows correlation between the activity and vibrancy of the frontal cortex and meditation. So while meditation can open us to the unresolved and unhealed in us, it also gives the means to heal and resolve. Knowing this ability to be with whatever arises in us is powerful indeed.

In the future I will look at the many health benefits of meditation.

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