The relationship between yoga and meditation is well known . In fact, they can be considered the same thing since the word "yoga" means staying in a state of union between what I feel (heart), what I think (head) and what I do (hands) and the word "meditation" It means being self-centered with awareness.
Meditation is the end of the path of Raja yoga, one who deals with accompanying us to transcend the body, emotions and mind and thus be able to devote our energies to the development of the great potential that we have as humans.
It is a matter of personal ecology: most of our energy forces are spent on the needs of the body, emotions, thoughts and actions that derive. A good part of the expenditure of this energy is the result of the cause-effect relationship of the large number of stimuli we receive from abroad.
The result of all of them is usually exhaustion, emotional imbalance, feelings of dissatisfaction, personal disorientation, confusion, dispersion. All this needs energy to sustain itself, to feed itself, to exist. And who feeds and sustains it? We ourselves with the attitudes of external communication with which we very often relate.
With yoga and through meditation we re-learn to relate from within, from what we really need and thus balance the energy balance. Because when we are in meditation, be it aesthetic or moving, be it with form or without form, our mind, our emotions and our physical body regenerate their energy creating synaptic connections that they weave internal equilibrium patterns in our brain that translate into consciousness and this leads us to the recovery of energy. And it is after this regeneration that we can again expose ourselves to the external stimuli to which we are exposed in our day.
And so, looking at life from within, we remake our energy and then we see more clearly that it suits us or should not spend again. Yoga and meditation lead us to a state in which we are able to make a `` budget '' where it is specified in what and how we want to spend our energy . And we know that if we consider this budget we will never spend more than is due.
From observation and awareness offered by meditation we can decide what suits us or does not suit us. Because observation and experimentation through oneself leads us to knowledge and learning. And what learning is better than what is given from the awareness of what we do, feel or think?
L dia Serra L pez, responsible for El Yoga Educa
To complement this paper, we offer you a link to an article about the effects of meditation that Marta Bernal Nieto, a student of Yoga Education training, has sent us: Eight weeks of Meditation is enough to change the brain
Source: http://www.elyogaeduca.com/meditacion-un-camino-hacia-el-uso-ecologico-de-la-energia-personal/?lang=en
Meditation and yoga: a path to the ecological use of personal energy
