Meditation is an activity that tends to clarity & equanimity through relaxed stillness, non-judgmental concentration, and receptive awareness. Also, from another point of view, meditation is simply a matter of sitting down to see what happens. Understanding of meditation depends on skill and point of view.
Eastern and Western traditions involve forms of meditation. Shamanism seems to have roots all over the world and shaman have various techniques to enter altered states of consciousness. These trance states can occur in meditation.
One can have a natural aptitude for meditation — though it is rare today. Most seem to agree that meditation, as humanity currently knows and practices it, came from ancestors in the East. More specifically, we might credit certain people of the Indian subcontinent who seem to have the furthest reaching traditions where Yogis and Sadhus of various orders e.g. Aghoris, Naga Babas practiced for more than 5,000 years.
Innerscapes Meditation is an eclectic practice involving several meditation methods with personalized coaching. Focusing on the individual meditator, Innerscapes signature coaching enhances health and quality of life. And so we come to understand that meditation has no specific point any more than music or life itself have a point. Alan Watts once said that if there was a point to music we would have one note symphonies because the point of the composition would be the crescendo. So why bother with the rest of the piece? When the music is playing, enjoy it...dance. Meditation is a way of dancing it's a science and an art it's a musical thing.
If you practice meditation, something may happen to you. You can see this in music as well. If you watch The Animals do "House of the Rising Sun" (1964), in the beginning you see them moving slightly in suits.
Meditation is about stillness, being much more still than moving slightly in a suit. And these men are all non-judgmentally concentrating on their music. They all have instruments they're playing using another language and another way of using time through Music Theory. In meditation, we are more still. Our music is our nervous system. As the song goes on, the men start to change. They start to walk in circles, similar to how your heart beat causes you to gyrate slightly when you sit in lotus position. And then the music begins to pop. Watch the men at 2:00 compared with the beginning of the song. Then at 2:27 they're back to baseline except the drummer. And we also see it in the keyboarder's hands. Like the grin at 3:35, how do you explain it? When the music gets inside your soul, you feel it. And meditation has a quality reminiscent of music.
Mathematics creates the abstraction we call the "number". Geometry allows us to put the number in space and form relationships. We can build houses. Music puts the number in time and forms relationships. This allows music. Meditation puts life in now. This allows depth, peace, and even joy.
