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Your question is very apt because never before in human history has there been so much disturbances to our spiritual balance than in today’s world. This is because of the energy pollution in the space around us.
Our physical body is not the whole of us although that’s how it appears to our physical sense perception. Our physical body is contained within and also permeated by our energy body. Our energy body has been variously referred to or recognised as bio field, bio plasma, human electromagnetic field, energy body, aura, athma, spirit body or spiritual body. It is a field of electromagnetic energy and it makes up the five overlapping layers of our mind with its five separate aspects.
Energy pollution is the energy vibrations of all the digital communications happening in the telecommunications network around us between the cellphone towers and all the mobile devices, computer systems, the satellite network, TV devices, radio stations, microwave devices, etc. The space around us is filled with information in the form of these energy waves and to our energy body it is pollution. It causes disturbances. This energy pollution by itself is however not the primary pitfall in today’s world.
The distinction of primary pitfall goes to the modern culture of being in the thinking mind all the time. Throughout our waking time and also during sleeping time our mind is engaged and busy with activities in it. These include the monologues in our mind with ourselves, the dialogues we carry out mentally with an imaginary person, the voices of others in our mind telling us what not to do, memories of past events, worries about the future, planning, working, calculating, computing, watching something, reading, studying, fantasising, imagining, dreaming, etc. We are habituated to this and so it seems to be happening effortlessly and automatically although we are doing it. This habit is the biggest pitfall in our efforts to maintain mental and spiritual balance in today’s world.
Now that we know the pitfalls, it is easy to learn and cultivate a new habit to help us remain connected with the natural earth and cosmic energy flows and remain balanced. The article linked below shows the way.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
How can I meditate 24*7?
Yes it is possible to hold a background state of Awareness or be present in the here and now or be connected with your grounding or meditate 24×7 as you call it and yet be completely focussed on something else in the conscious part of your mind or logical / analytical mind (you call this without being aware). Before I tell you how to achieve it, I would like to explain what is happening here. Let me take the example of a juggler in a circus show. This person is able to juggle several things simultaneously but if he or she looks at one particular thing they will drop all the other things. So their conscious attention may be focussed on the audience and they may be making some funny face or saying some joke to entertain the audience but simultaneously they are probably juggling ten different balls of different sizes. Their conscious mind is mindful about the audience and talking with them and their unaware mind (as you call it) which is actually their background state of awareness is taking care of the hand movements to keep all the balls in the air in continuous motion. In other words, this juggler is being present and grounded or being mindful with all the balls he/she is juggling and and not aware of it because they are simultaneously entertaining the audience with their jokes and facial expressions. What happens normally when we work and are not being mindful is that we end up having very bad body posture which ruins our health and it turn reduces our efficiency and productivity at work. But if we stop working and start spending equal amount of time in meditation and exercise, we are not able to concentrate and complete our work on time. We would like to do both and this seems to be the aim of your question. The answer is to slowly cultivate a habit of returning back to your presence or grounding often during the day consistently. I suggest you begin with the following two practices for a few days and then see how you fare with your maths. 1) Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI 2) Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing the Four Simultaneous Activities The first one takes three minutes and the second one takes five minutes so together it would be a ten minute practice. I suggest that you do this practice upon waking up in the morning and once again just before going to sleep at night. In addition please also repeat this ten minute practice once every two hours throughout your day. If you can do this consistently and cultivate a habit out of it you will be able to achieve what you aim for in a few months. I have answered a similar question before and you might be interested to read that answer here For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.