What do Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Michael Jordan and Lebron James have in common?
They’re all incredibly successful, hard-working and geniuses in their field, but many people don’t know that they all practice meditation. Oprah said that meditation has made her “1,000 times better.” Jordan and James, both famous athletes, practice meditation to sharpen their focus and improve concentration.
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, was a well-known meditation practitioner. Biographer Walter Isaacson wrote, “Your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.”
Meditation is the process of reflecting on your mind. When you start looking inside yourself, you will be able to change and improve yourself and thus, tap into so much unrealized potential. At Ortigas/Makati Meditation Center, you can look back on your mind and improve your life and career. Through the “subtraction” method you can discover the original nature of the mind.
The human mind is like a stack of pictures that you have stored in your mind and body. These “pictures” are the accumulation of your past experiences which have formed your pattern of thinking and habits. The pictures stored in your mind contain emotions, thoughts and attachments to people, places and material things. They have created their own world in your mind. Because the world in the human mind is not “real,” you can throw them away. This method is systematic and scientific. It is not about suppressing your mind and experiencing temporary comfort. It helps you to eliminate the roots of your human mind, completely. When you empty your mind through the subtraction method, your mind and body will become lighter and freer. You will find the true happiness within you.
At Ortigas/Makati Meditation Center, professional instructors guide practitioners with the subtraction method and always check their meditation progress in order to help them throw away their thoughts. Most of the practitioners feel the changes in their minds in two to three weeks after they practice the subtraction meditation.
Once the noisy and complicated state of mind is subtracted, you can feel calm, light and comfortable. You will be able to control the negative emotions that engulf you. You can discover yourself sincerely smiling at the colleagues you used to feel uncomfortable around.
You will even feel happy in the morning when you wake up. Your work performance improves along with your concentration as the useless thoughts disappear from your head. You will find yourself free from stress. You can recover your confidence and get to know yourself much better. You will be able to understand people much better, therefore, the relationships with people naturally improve and conflicts will be solved. With the awareness of how to empty your mind, your inner power grows, which allows you to control your mind in any situation you can possibly face. You will always be positive and the quality of your life will dramatically improve.
The effects of this meditation have been scientifically verified. An extract from the academic paper “The Effects of the Meditation Program on the Brain Function of University Students” published in the Journal of the Completion Education Society stated this: “After the mind subtraction meditation, the university students’ brainwaves became stable and their brain quotient enhanced. Therefore, their concentration and thinking ability have improved. Their resistance to stress from internal and external environmental factors has enhanced.” Likewise, meditation has positive effects on the brainwaves. Therefore, it gives people who practice the method mental stability.
This meditation was established in South Korea in November 1996. Currently, there are more than 340 meditation centers all over the world and more than 500,000 people have practiced the method of subtraction to cleanse the mind and body to become the truth.
In the Philippines, the centers in Ortigas and Makati are open from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., seven days a week. Those who would like to get more information about meditation, register for the free seminar conducted at Ortigas Meditation Center (AIC Gold Tower, F. Ortigas Jr., Pasig) or at Makati Meditation Center (Classica Tower 2, 114 H.V. Dela Costa St.)
For more information, visit OrtigasMeditation.org and MakatiMeditation.org.