One of the answers to this question is meditation. Yoga and meditation teacher Dejan Dinevski lays a great stress upon meditation. He is the president of the Yoga in Daily Life of Maribor society, as well as a professor at the University of Maribor.
Written by Neža Mrevlje, www.siol.net.
One of the answers to this question is meditation. Yoga and meditation teacher Dejan Dinevski lays a great stress upon meditation. He is the president of the Yoga in Daily Life of Maribor society, as well as a professor at the University of Maribor.
The yoga and meditation teacher Dejan Dinevski says there are more than thousand scientific researches published that emphasize the all-round advantages of meditation. The bottom line conclusion is that meditation improves ones health, the feeling of happiness, deepens social relations and increases the quality of life in general. It is very effective against anxiety, depression and stress. It positively influences the cognitive characteristics such as memorization and mental concentration.
The state of meditation as Dr. Dinevski describes it, is a state of a deep rest along with high awareness and focused state of mind. There are various types of meditation, but he divides them into 2 main groups: contemplative meditations which derive from Zen tradition and the other group of meditations, which engage a focused awareness to calm down the waves of the mind. Both directions lead to the same aim, only the path is a little bit different.
Dejan Dinevski teacher of yoga and meditation explains, that there are more than thousand scientific researches published, all speaking about the wide-ranging advantages of meditation. He points out a few, like improvement of health, feeling well, the feeling of happiness, deepening of the social relations and increasing the quality of life in general.
The river of thoughts should be directed not controlled
And what is the aim? Complete inner peace. Nevertheless this is not an empty space. The inner peace fills a man with a new quality of living. This is not a state of total absence of thoughts. Attempting to reach such a state would on the contrary develop even more thoughts and pressure.
It is about calming down the mind, which can be done by attentive awareness. »We shouldn’t be occupied with the meaning of the thoughts, or be actively engaged in them. We are simply aware of the thoughts, mantra or inner sound« the meditation teacher explains. In this way the stream of thoughts is redirected and not dammed. Gradually the mind allows us to focus on only one subject or content. From here on it is almost impossible to describe the development of the consciousness with words. One needs a personal experience to gain the knowledge.
The aim of meditation is a complete inner peace that fills a man with some a new quality of living.
How to start a meditation?
With all these beneficent effects of meditation pointed out by Dinevski, a question arises which path of meditation to take and above all how to start.
"I would suggest for all those interested in meditation to get to know different practices, read some books, go to some lectures and talk to people who regularly meditate. Then they should intuitively choose and try out their choice.”
At the beginning there is almost always a need for an experienced teacher. "The driving teacher is always someone who knows how to drive well. We can't learn driving from a book or from a person who possesses only theoretical knowledge."
We shouldn't make a self-pressure with a compulsory meditation timetable is Dinevski's advice. Start with 15 minutes a day. Soon you will find out that it makes you feel good and you will prolong it or start to meditate in the morning and in the evening. Remember not to meditate on a full stomach or when you are very tired.
How much meditation is just right?
Dinevski advises we shouldn't make self-pressure by a compulsory meditation timetable. Start with 15 minutes a day. Soon you will find out that it makes you feel good and you will prolong it or start to meditate in the morning and in the evening. Remember not to meditate on a full stomach or when you are very tired.
“Already after a few repetitions of meditation, practically any person can sit still for some time. You shouldn't be bothered by being motionlessness though this is good for the quality of meditation. If you can't sit comfortably on the floor you can take a chair which supports your lower back. When we close the eyes, we should become an observer of our body and mind.”
Already after a few repetitions of meditation, practically any person can sit still for some time. You shouldn't be bothered by being motionlessness though this is good for the quality of meditation.
Slovenian poet Srečko Kosovel as an inspiration for meditation
One of my most important guides “at the very start of my nearly 30 year spiritual path was a poem by Srečko Kosovel called Regeneration”, Dinevski explains.
He even outlines the poet Kosovel as “one of the most shining spiritual guides in the history of humankind. As such, Kosovel goes beyond the Holy Scriptures, because there is no trace of dogma in his poem.“
A term spirituality, as he underlines it, is today quite misused and a misinterpreted word. The philosophy tears it apart if it accidently encounters it, psychology doesn't exactly know what to do with it and “new age” augments it with numerous layers of illusions and banalities.
Srečko Kosovel: Regeneration
Alone, alone, alone I have to be,
every opaque body in transparency to shed
and the sounds of the piano will then be, maybe,
only winter stars for my eyes.
Alone, alone, alone I have to be,
that I forget to think and to talk
and that I feel in myself only one magnificence
of the silent universe: Growth.
Alone, alone, alone I have to be,
everything what was hidden, all I have to discover,
not with my mind, but with my silence
as with the prayer before the holiest searching.
Alone, alone, alone I have to be,
in eternity myself and within myself eternity to discover,
my transparent wings in infinity to spread
and peace from otherworldly landscape to catch.