What do Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Michael Jordan and Lebron James have in common? They’re all incredibly successful, hard-working and geniuses in their field, but many people don’t know that they all practice meditation. Oprah said that meditation has made her “1,000 times better”. Michael Jordan and Lebron James, both famous athletes, practiced meditation to sharpen focus and improve concentration. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was a well-known meditation practitioner. As stated by his biographer Walter Isaacson, “Your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.”
Meditation
is the process of reflecting on your mind. When you start looking inside
yourself, you will be able to change and improve yourself and thus, tap into so
much unrealized potential. At
Ortigas/Makati Meditation, you can look back on your mind and improve your life
and career. Through the "subtraction" method you can discover the
original nature of the mind.
The
human mind is like a stack of pictures that you have stored in your mind and
body. These “pictures" are the accumulation of your past experiences which
have formed your pattern of thinking and habits. The pictures stored in your
mind contain emotions, thoughts, and attachments to people, places, and
material things. They have created their own world in your mind. Because the
world in the human mind is not “real”, you can throw them away. This method is
systematic and scientific. It is not about suppressing your mind and experiencing
temporary comfort. It helps you to eliminate the roots of your human mind,
completely. When you empty your mind through the subtraction method, your mind
and body will become lighter and more free. You will find the true happiness
within you.
At the
Ortigas/Makati Meditation Center, professional instructors guide practitioners
with the subtraction method and always check their meditation progress in order
to help them throw away their thoughts. Most of the
practitioners feel the changes in their minds in 2~3 weeks after they practice the subtraction
meditation.
Once
the noisy and complicated state of mind is subtracted, then you can feel calm,
light and comfortable. You will be able to control the negative emotions that engulf
you. You can discover yourself sincerely smiling at the colleagues you used to
feel uncomfortable around.
You
will even feel happy in the morning when you wake up. Your work performance
improves along with your concentration as the useless thoughts disappear from
your head. You will find yourself free from stress. You can recover your
confidence and get to know yourself much better. You will be able to understand people much
better, therefore, the relationships with people naturally improve and
conflicts will be solved. With the awareness of how to empty your mind, your
inner power grows, which allows you to control your mind in any situation you
can possibly face. You will always be positive and the quality of your life
will dramatically improve.
The
effects of this meditation have been scientifically verified. An extract from
the academic paper “The Effects of the Meditation Program on the Brain Function
of University Students” published in the Journal of the Completion Education
Society stated this: "After the mind subtraction meditation, the
university students' brainwaves became stable and their brain quotient
enhanced. Therefore, their concentration and thinking ability have improved.
Their resistance to stress from internal and external environmental factors has
enhanced." Likewise, meditation has
positive effects on the brainwaves. Therefore, it gives people who practice the
method mental stability.
This
meditation was established in South Korea, in November 1996. Currently, there
are more than 340 meditation centers all over the world and more than 500,000
people have practiced the method of subtraction to cleanse the mind and body to
become the truth.
In the
Philippines, there are centers in Ortigas and Makati. The centers open from
9:30 am to 11:30 pm, 7 days a week. If you would like to get more information
about meditation, you can register for the free seminar conducted at any of the
centers.
Free Introductory Seminar: Every Saturday
at 3:30 pm
Ortigas Meditation Center:
687.1294/0915.254.8986 AIC Gold Tower, F. Ortigas Jr., Pasig
Makati Meditation Center:
856.6943/0915.345.2296 Classica Tower 2, 114 H.V. Dela Costa St.
For more information you can check out
the following sites.
OrtgiasMeditation.org ｜MakatiMeditation.org
Facebook.com/ortigasmeditation｜Facebook.com/makatimeditation
MeditationUSA.org ｜guidedmeditationtips.com｜meditationlife.org(Korean)
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