Pervasive Meditation

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"Pervasive meditation" is the same as "acognitive therapy." I have coined both terms to refer to a form of meditation that "pervades" your days and nights. For, in "structured meditation," you usually take fifteen or twenty minutes, go to a certain place, sit down, and "meditate."

But this can be inconvenient to impossible with the speed and variety of modern life. So, an alternative is "pervasive meditation."

Pervasive meditation occurs inside your head, and so, you do not need a particular posture, or a particular place, to practice it.

To practice, choose a four-syllable "mantra." This phrase, in pervasive meditation, is called the "trm," or "thought-replacement mechanism." Its purpose is to replace thought with the thoughtfree state of stillness, leading to the state of "lucidity," or clearmind. This alone allows your higher Mind or Self to act through you.

The trm can be any phrase with which you are comfortable. For many years, my Christian friends and I experimented with the trm, "Jesus Christ, and..." (A three-syllable phrase can be used by adding the word "and," which adds continuity, rhythm, and flow.) Other very spiritual mantras (trm's) include, "Brahman, Brahman," "Krishna, Krishna," "Ahmitabha," "gentle Kwan Yin," "loving Mary,"... and the list goes on and on, into thousands of possibilities.

After having selected a trm with which you can live-- one that is uplifting, spiritual, healing, joyful, etc., you begin to repeat it, inside your head, silently, whenever you get a chance.

So, whenever you have ten seconds here, thirty seconds there, a couple of minutes unoccupied-- and we all have these "free moments" all day-- instead of allowing the mind simply to wander, or, worse, to recycle negativities, why not open the "interior door" to the Lord and Lady of pure Love, allowing this Spirit to work through you? This is, after all, the motive or reason for clearing the mind of all excess thought: You want to become an instrument, a "marionette," of Love.

It cannot be overemphasized that you "run" your "trm" during every spare second or minute, all day long. Using pervasive meditation, a person can meditate a total of four hours or more each day, instead of only fifteen minutes or a half-hour. Of course, meditation is never about "competition." But it is all about doing your best, and giving your "all" to God(dess) every minute of every day. Pervasive meditation takes an unfocused, confused, meandering mind and sharpens its pure and laserlike focus upon God (Love).
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