Beginning Meditation: HomeStudy
From time immemorial, humanity has looked up to the heavens or looked within and asked the questions “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?”
HomeStudy is designed to teach you the skills you’ll need to find answers to these all-important questions. Through a series of simple exercises which take just a few minutes a day, you’ll discover the key to unlock the hidden mysteries of life, and the potential that lies deep within you.
This course was designed by students of Sri Chinmoy, a contemporary spiritual master whose life and teachings are the inspiration behind HomeStudy. The techniques you will learn here are much the same as those used to teach tens of thousands of people in meditation classes around the world. From our own experience, we can assure you that if you practice these techniques daily, meditation will enhance and enrich your life far beyond your imagination.
Some of the many gifts of meditation you will benefit from include:
Improved physical health – Stress, tension and negative emotions silently erode your life-force. As you decrease these negative influences through your meditation, you will experience profound positive effects on your physical health, from increased vitality to a greater sense of general well-being.
Deeper sleep – Meditation will have a positive effect on the quality and the quantity of your sleep. As your mind becomes calmer through your practice of meditation, you will fall asleep more easily and sleep more soundly.
You will be happier – We tend to seek happiness outside ourselves—where we are, what we possess, who we are with—but meditation helps us to realize that real, lasting happiness is an experience which flows from within and exists independently of our outer circumstances.
Better life decisions – In the whole history of the world, you are unique, and you have a uniquely special path to follow in life. In the silence and stillness of meditation, you will perceive more clearly the still, small voice within that can guide you safely along your life’s path. By bringing you closer to your life’s purpose, meditation sets you free to become more truly and uniquely yourself.
Spiritual growth – At the very core of your existence lives a being of great beauty, wisdom and delight. This being is none other than your own highest self. Through meditation you will grow into your highest self, and all of its inner wealth will be yours to use in your day-to-day life.
Inner peace brings outer peace – Everything starts from within! As you devel-op more inner peace through your practice of meditation, your outer life will become more peaceful as well. Little things start to happen as your outer life is touched by the expanding fragrance of your inner life: problems fall away or are resolved more easily; your dealings with people become deeper and more fulfilling; and you develop new and greater outer capacities.
So get ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery towards the happy, healthy, and fulfilling life you want and deserve!
What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared to
What lies within us.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes