Meditation generates energy

• Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy. Frederick Lenz
• As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. Frederick Lenz
• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It’s because they’re trying too hard. You’re pulling in too much energy. Frederick Lenz
• Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. Frederick Lenz
• You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can’t tell what’s going on. You need to practice meditation. Frederick Lenz
• In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances. Frederick Lenz
• Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe! Frederick Lenz
• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up. Frederick Lenz
• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. Nhat Hanh
• There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute. Frederick Lenz
• Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. David Lynch
• We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others. Eknath Easwaran

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…energy that comes from within…

• Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana – life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God. Amit Ray

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…including inner energies of the mind…

• The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle
• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift. K.S. Iyengar

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…and cosmic energy

• When you meditate, you activate cosmic energies. James Van Praagh
• Meditation on the majestic energy of the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts. Richard Holloway
• Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. David Lynch

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During meditation, we channel energy so it flows through us

• Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness. Frederick Lenz
• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy. Vijender Singh
• As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life. Frederick Lenz
• Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life. Frederick Lenz
• As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct some of that energy towards their career, then naturally they will become successful. Frederick Lenz
• As Einstein queried, ‘Why is it that I get my best ideas in the morning while I’m shaving?’ Shaving is like meditation with a sharp object. When the mind is empty and receptive, big ideas flow through every cell of our body. When we’re thinking too hard, we tense up and nothing can flow through us; our energy gets stuck in our heads. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. Gabrielle Roth

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Meditation restores energy

• Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek. Diane Dreher
• Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Meditation unblocks energy

• Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body. Deborah King

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Meditation preserves energy

• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. Annie Besant
• When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. Ramana Maharshi
• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. Frederick Lenz
• The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically. Frederick Lenz
• Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time. Masanobu Fukuoka

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Meditation converts negative energy into positive energy

• Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness. Rajneesh
• The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being. Shinzen Young
• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation. Nhat Hanh
• Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving inwards. It is not moving to the periphery, to the suffering, you are not feeding your suffering. It looks illogical, but this is the whole conclusion of all the mystics of the world: that you feed your suffering and you enjoy it in a subtle way, you don’t want to be well—there must be some investment in it. Rajneesh

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Many meditators report on the energy that meditation brings them

• I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm. Jaime Murray
• Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy. Tim McCarthy
• I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it’s going to be over. It’s not that way; it’s so energetic. That’s where all the energy and creativity is. David Lynch
• I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it. Jerry Seinfeld
• I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. David Lynch
• The very actions themselves can be a meditation. For me, walking is certainly a meditation if I walk for awhile. First my mind is busy and I’m thinking about different things and after a while that starts to fall away and I start to become very present in the moment. And that feeling of being present in the moment is being. That’s when we know we’re connecting with being energy. Shakti Gawain

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Meditation involves being conscious of higher energies

• I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. Gabrielle Bernstein
• The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it’s very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness. Frederick Lenz

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Meditation helps us tap into divine energy

• Forms of meditation and contemplation are particularly fitting for this type of energy work since often they are about connecting with energy or channeling it. These practices do not require God, as an other, to whom one addresses prayer. Meditation may well bring us more into communion with God. Contemplation may immerse us in dynamic interrelationships. Both may help us be more aware of life and the energy that makes life possible. In that way, they bring us closer to the divine, without necessarily addressing God directly. Flora A. Keshgegian
• People who say, “I don’t believe in God,” I want to say to them, “Forget the G O D word. But can you believe that there is something larger than yourself that is working for you and around you in a brilliant cosmic intelligence?” To me, daily practice of meditation is accessing that reverence and awe and really tapping into it. Do whatever it takes to move with it, to partner with it, and live your life with that in mind. Imagine what would happen if enough of us did that? We would open to such amazing energy, creativity, and power. Agapi Stassinopoulos
• I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy. Miranda Kerr

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Meditation helps us harness the energies of the chakras

• In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness. Frederick Lenz
• Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person’s chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles. Frederick Lenz

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Meditation can help protect us from negative energy

• Negative energies can’t touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness. Jaggi Vasudev
• Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically. Frederick Lenz

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Meditation is the best investment in energy we can make

• If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom. Jaggi Vasudev
• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one’s grip on the levels left behind. (…) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested in trivia; he does not put any energy at all into petty things. So whenever the time arises to give, he has to give. Energy is understanding. Be conscious of it and use your energy very consciously, and use your energy in such a way that you don’t simply go on wasting it. Rajneesh
• It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything – and it is good because you have nothing much to do. You have not to go here and there and visit people and become a member of the Rotary Club. You are saved from so much nonsense that I felt really jealous of you! Enjoy it! And feel sorry for everybody else! They are poorer and you can become immensely rich. And the art of that richness is witnessing. Witnessing is another name for meditation. Rajneesh

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If you must judge the effectiveness of meditation, judge it by how energised you feel

• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. … If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states. Eknath Easwaran

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We can use the energy generated by meditation in powerful and positive ways

• When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed. Rajneesh
• In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated. S. N. Goenka