VideoMeditationAug 14, 202613:14
Where Real Meditation Begins
Alexander VolchekOlya
In this episode, Alexander Volchek explores the central question to ask yourself before meditating. Why is choosing a technique or a posture, or practicing regularly, not enough? What happens when a person uses meditation solely to achieve a particular effect? And what should you do if you do not understand why you meditate at all?
Main subjects
Olya (meditation channel participant)Alexander VolchekMeditationAwareness, observation, and perceptionMeditation practice and techniquePersonal development and inner support
The main question
Why is choosing a technique or a posture, or practicing regularly, not enough?
What you can take away
- A meditative state cannot be separated from ordinary life.
- It appears in how you perceive your thoughts, speech, relationships, actions, and the causes and effects of what happens.
What is said here
- 00:00Some people talk a great deal about what you ought to do: take up triathlons, say, or climb mountains, run, or go to the gym. The most important thing in all these…Meditation · Meditation practice and technique · Personal development and inner support
- 01:41Are you asking why we should meditate, why we should pursue spiritual development, or what spiritual development is? Or why a person should live? Why a person should come to know life? Or…Spirit · Spiritual development and the spiritual path · Meditation
- 02:06Of course, to understand why we meditate, you need to look at why you specifically want to do it. On the meditation channel, I talk about…Meditation · Meditation practice and technique
- 02:59Were you continually observing the thoughts that arose about your own life? Were you always trying to understand the causes and effects of your actions?…Awareness, observation, and perception · Money, anxiety, and financial thinking
- 03:49First, you need to understand why you are taking these actions. If we ask, “What is all of this for?” then we need to ask what values guide your entire…Meditation · Meditation practice and technique · Couples and healthy relationships
- 04:42“I am pursuing spiritual development because it is fashionable.” Then the question falls away. You need to ask whether you are pursuing spiritual development or simply living within a particular idea…Spirit · Spiritual development and the spiritual path
- 05:36What drives them every morning, afternoon, and evening? Once you have found those guiding values for yourself, of course you can begin to build on them. Why should a person pursue their own…Personal development and inner support · Lifelong self-education · Money, anxiety, and financial thinking
- 06:29We had guests at our house yesterday. Seeing my garden, with hundreds of plants planted there—or species of plants—they said several times, “What an interesting…Garden / plants · Money, anxiety, and financial thinking · Love
- 08:16For myself, I do not divide life into spiritual and material parts. I do not divide it. There is that phrase in America, which I have repeated many times: “What do you do for a living?” What do you do in order to live? And…Spirit · Meditation · Meditation practice and technique
- 10:56What difference does it make? They are just as much a person, exactly the same in that respect. That is why, for example, I do not react at all to people who leave positive or negative comments.…Money, anxiety, and financial thinking · Personal development and inner support · Lifelong self-education
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- 00:00
For example, they say you should take up triathlons, climb mountains, run, or go to the gym.
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The most important thing in all these cases is always to answer for yourself why you are doing it. What is your goal?
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- 02:06
Of course, to understand why we meditate, you need to look at why you specifically want to do it.
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- 03:49
Or that being calm would improve your relationships at home—then simply recognize that you are practicing meditation because you want better relationships.
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- 04:42
“I am pursuing spiritual development because it is fashionable.” Then the question falls away.
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- 07:22
Obviously, though, I have an enormous number of subpersonalities, from a melancholic, quiet, creative person to an explosive, outgoing personality.
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I have the same foundation in all these actions, always the same one.
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- 10:01
Would you say, “I love this person more, or respect them more, because they want to develop, and I love this other person less because they are less interested in developing”?
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- 10:56
That is why, for example, I do not react at all to people who leave positive or negative comments.
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- 10:56
Sometimes, then, you need to close your eyes or open your eyes during the meditations on my channel in order to perceive certain states.
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What to watch next
- How Meditation Works: From Bodily Sensations to Expanded Perception
- How You Affect Other People Even When You Say Nothing to Them
Who this is for
- For readers interested in: Awareness, observation, and perception, Meditation practice and technique, Personal development and inner support
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