I’ve been chanting the Psalms in the mornings, and it occurred to me today that singing is meditation. In the past I’ve thought of music and chanting as a means to focus the mind on a singular idea. So music was a way to meditation. But I considered the actual meditation pure thought.
Now I realize that the Psalmist is not stripping the outer world away to think in a purely rationalized or abstracted level. Rather singing is meditation. Just as eating the bread and drinking the wine is remembering the Lord’s death.
While thinking draws on a rationality, true meditation is so much more. It brings together imagination, rationality, the physical body and emotions. Meditation is training me to be a whole/wise person (a home sapien) and not simply a homo logicus.
January 1, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Happy New Year!!
We have before us a new year.
What a blessing, and what an opportunity.
I know that we can have a great and prosperous year, regardless of where we are starting at this time. Even if your job changed or your rerlationships need work, or you have distressing family problems, the new year is a time for hope with a firm prospect of things getting better.
Let’s put the difficulties behind us, even failed terrorist attacks and perennial bad economic news that seems to float around in big black clouds.
With all its problems, difficulties, bad people and rough situations, it is still a wonderful world with limitless opportunities!
See how you can find your opportunities in your own genius mind!
Choose not to be limited by your past and your circumstances.
Access you own internal power.
visit http://www.thepowerofmeditation.com.