Meditation and Tension

When people talk about subjects such as Meditation and Frequency, I rarely hear them mention the physical components of these ideas.

If you’re a first time meditator or someone who’s just started dabbling in spiritual practices, you’ll be hearing a lot of different terminologies and people using words that may not necessarily be related in any objective way to the ideas they are talking about.

Before we discuss that however, there’s something you should be aware of as it relates to your body and meditation.

The way your body holds tension and moves energy around your system will be a key factor in determining how successful your meditation practice is.

I won’t delve into the complexities of this here as it may confuse you more however there is a key aspect of this you should be aware of. If you have physical distortions in your system that lead you to hold muscular tension in some places more than others, and depending on how extreme these postural/tensile dysfunctions are, the more common methods of meditation may not be effective and you may have to instead focus on just trying to relieve and free up this tension that is stuck so that you can actually start to mentally relax.

Also understand that the action of sitting down to meditate involves this practice I just mentioned of relieving tension. So if for example you have too much tension stuck in your head/cranium area (a very common issue among people today), your focus should be on relaxing this area, allowing that tension to flow and redistribute into the rest of your body, and then moving on from there.

If you are sitting down to meditate (or however you are choosing to practice it) and you feel like you are not achieving this relaxation or even the mental elevation that most meditation practices offer, then DON’T FORCE IT. Stick to your designated meditation time and do what you can within that window.
If you feel like you have a handle on what you’re doing and can continue and achieve the relaxation or mental elevation then feel free to continue.

The reason I say to not force anything, is because often the benefits of meditation are felt sometimes days after your actual meditation session. This is because of this tensile and energetic phenomena of the body. If one day you work on relieving tension in your head and getting somewhat of a grip on your thoughts for 20 minutes or so, the benefits of this will show up downstream of this maybe a day or 2 later as your body catches up and assimilates this new found energy and tension into your system.
The brain and body are now working more harmoniously and talking to each other from a more balanced perspective.

Essentially you should learn your own pace, timing and physical makeup so you know how to work with your practice and what success feels like for you.

As it relates to the topic of Frequency, whether it be “High Frequency” or “Low Frequency” behaviors and being, I’ll write about this in a separate post.

If you read this all the way through I would love to hear what you think or even if you experiment with the ideas here how they end up going for you. Follow me on X here https://x.com/the_bridged and drop me a DM.

Until the next post, stay unhindered and keep controlling your time.

Peace.