Meditations: The Use Of Sacred Phrases In Your Daily Meditations

There are many reasons for meditating, such asbetter person and to respect your fellow man. Many
meditating for relaxation, stress relief or dealing withpeople ask me how I incorporate these sacred
an issue. Sometimes you may even meditate for thephrases into my meditation. Well I first begin by
fun of it because of the high you get coming off aidentifying the sacred phrase I want to start with. I
meditation session. However, sometimes you maywill read it aloud and once I have decided what I
want to meditate for a purpose or to help reinforcewant to get from the meditation session then that is
something you want to achieve. If you are an elitewhen I will start. For example, I may want to
athlete you may meditate each day to help you inmeditate on how to deal with a person who is
your mental preparation by meditating on what youcausing me grief or always seems to get me angry. I
will do to win your race or if you are a basketballwill find a sacred phrase that I can reflect on and use
player you may meditate on shooting a 3 point shot.that phrase during my meditation. I start off by
You can achieve these outcomes by using phrasessimply beginning my meditation session with simple
during your meditation session. The objective ofbreathing exercises that help clear my mind and to
these phrases during a meditation session is to helpget me to a state in which I can begin using the
reprogram your mind to achieve your objectivessacred meditation phrases. During a 20 minute
when your mind is in its most malleable state. Themeditation session, I find that it generally takes about
mind is most open to suggestion or reprogramming5 to 8 minutes to get to the point that I am ready
during a meditation session. The Buddhist Monk usesfor the next stage in the meditation cycle of using
sacred meditation phrases during a meditation sessionthe sacred phrase. Now that I am ready to begin the
to help them in overcoming their transgressions and illnext stage, I start by reciting the sacred phrase in
thoughts they have during the day. They aremy mind. During the first recitation I will simply recite
provided these sacred phrases from the teachings ofthe sacred phrase without any reflection. On the
Buddha, their teachers and the Dalai Lama. Eachsecond recitation of the sacred phrase I will begin
Sacred Phrase contains an important lesson that is topaying close attention to the words in the sacred
be learnt. A sample sacred phrase by Buddha goes asphrase and the meanings of the words. Over the
- Speak the truth, do not become angered and givenext few recitations of those phrases I will begin to
when asked, even be it a little. By these threelook at how I apply the meanings of the phrases to
conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.my everyday life. I continue this process till I am
Another sacred phrase that is useful in daily life - Theready to finish off my meditation. The last stage of
wise who control body, speech and mind are indeedmy meditation cycle involves making a conscious
the consummately controlled. The Buddhist religioncommitment to improving my life and to take on
and community are not the only religion that hasboard the values and meanings of the sacred phrase.
sacred phrases that can be used during a meditationThe core objective of using sacred phrases during
session. Some meditators who come from theyour meditation sessions is to help you improve, you,
Christian faith will use sacred phrases from the bibleas a person and the role that you will play on this
such as the Psalms or the Lords Prayer. Virtuallyearth. If we do not contemplate and reflect on these
every religion has sacred phrases you can usesacred phrases in this way then the phrases will be
through your meditation sessions and most of thesenothing more than pretty words and will not serve
phrases are about trying to help you become athe purpose they were intended for.