These days many people will travel a lifetime searching for a resolution to the answer to all answers. What am I here for? Will I ever truly be loved? When will I get to go home? We begin to question the experienced traumas, abuse and separation. A desire blooms from within looking past the lower vibratory energies of victimhood and the internal guidance system of the body becomes activated, which generally leads us onto the path of meditation. This is where the attainment of the state of stillness can be experienced, paving the way to freeing the self of these experiences. Turning from the energies of fear into the energies of love.

In Western society, meditation is often seen as an unattainable state, because it doesn’t take into consideration life in the construct like; time, traffic and the financial system. A question may appear within self, “Well how do I pay my bills when I’m sitting in meditation?”. Thus providing resistance to the practice and creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of giving up. Severing the connection to a consistent and deep practice. All because a part of the ‘you’ is in the way.

Through the lens of meditation, the self can be broken down into 2 states. The physical (identity) and the metaphysical (soul). The physical state looks for information outside of itself using the 5 senses of the body to answer the questions. In quantum physics the 5 senses can only perceive up to 6% of all reality, making the physical state limited in its knowing and perception of all things. The thirst for the physical state keeps us in a state of separation because the answers are always outside of itself, creating confusion, disconnection and all forms of fear. Thus creating an idea (or program) that you don’t have the answers and that you must continue to find them outside of self. This state uses logic and a foundation that has been built from the reality that forms around us. The physical state’s insatiable appetite to be right, to be in control and to win whatever might be in front of itself in the moment, creates separation, thus, in the example of meditation, keeps us away from connecting with self at a deeper level.

The metaphysical state can lay dormant throughout life, especially to those who may not be exposed to community, connection and love. To some, it may feel unattainable to connect with this aspect of self, and because the physical body doesn’t have access to this part of self, it deters the metaphysical connection and renders it an illusion or unreal.

The more we sit with this sensation at times of stillness like meditation; we come to understand that the physical state or the mind is actually the hindrance to what we are all looking for in life. Freedom, joy and happiness. Through meditation practices, we get to practice the art of wielding the mind. We get to practice our metaphysical state, which is connected to the One. As One we are the knowing as well as an embodiment of the knowing. We can realise that as we tune ourselves to the metaphysical state we see that the answers that we are looking for come from within. The distraction of the mind is seen and loosens its grip on fear, creating contentment and love.

The physical state’s purpose is to provide continual momentum to self and that is why it is so important to have a regular meditation practice. Meditation provides the platform to exercise the muscle of the soul and to connect and embody this aspect of self into the physical self.

Once this is achieved no cave or palace will eclipse this state. It is simply here and attainable to all beings walking this Earth. The only thing in the way is yourself.