Course XV - Teaching 2: Disposition for Meditation

Meditating is not thinking. Thinking is just one of the elements of the exercise. Discoursing, reasoning and reflecting do not involve a real and deep movement in the soul substance. The purpose of thinking in meditation is to outline the aim of the exercise and to produce necessary stimuli for its realization.
Meditating is not feeling. Feeling is other element of the exercise. In meditation, feeling is to shape the psychic thought substance.
Meditating is not to speaking. Words used during the exercise are helpful to express images that have been formed, sensations that have been experienced, and purposes that the heart and mind try to achieve.
Meditating is achieving a special vibratory state, certain warmth to produce movements in the soul substance, and creation of new forms in the latter, whose result is a different nature.
We shall never speak sufficiently about the importance of this exercise and the words of orators and superiors never shall be enough to lead the souls to love this vital improvement element.
Beginners are not aware of the force put at their disposal through the teaching of meditation, and a person that does not pray daily, neglects his opportunity and his means to transform his soul into a divine vibration.
First of all, a proper disposition is necessary to meditate; he who must force himself to meditate, does not run toward meditation, or does not looks forward meditating, is a man that does not love his own liberation and is not ready for this act of true divine magic. Meditation must be wished, expected and sought. It requires a disposition made a habit; any resistance decreases the transforming Meditation power.
So, the Son must usually hanker for the moment of the holy meeting, and must be ready to practice the exercise.
The habitual meditation, always at the same time and place, is very productive.
By the mere fact of being seated at the usual place, the meditator is immediately ready for a proper absorption in order to enter the state of meditation. It is so because by sitting down, the initial resistance is overcome. Also, it is taken for granted that the place for usual meditation is a select mental environment that encourages the prayer.
The physical body and usual activities are proper if the meditator chooses and permanently observes the same meditation time, because mainly all days, during the morning, the physical body remains in the same state, not interfered by bodily tiredness, digestive functions, or the call of usual activities during subsequent hours, which distract and spoil meditation.
Strange or affected positions should be avoided by practicing positions that are natural in every individual, impede the unruly current of his thoughts, and lead his soul to the divine infinitude.
Even vocal prayer –pleasant to the soul of the meditator– should be recommended before he enters the internal chamber, the purest tabernacle, where his human nature, in touch with the divine vibration, has to be raised and transmuted.
On the other hand, the meditator must prepare those subjects of his concern not to be forced to strive mentally to find the subject and other elements of meditation. This effort, instead de facilitating the absorption and entry to the tabernacle, just would facilitate the exit and expansion of the mind.
Just this way one can expect advantageous results from meditation in a healthy condition of the soul.