Once you learn to concentrate you can then contemplate. It is then that you can analyze and focus on what it is that you are carrying that needs to be flushed from your system. Even if for two minutes you experience the heaviness in your body and in your mind, you will feel like you weigh a hundred times more than what you actually do because you are carrying a weight whilst ignoring it. There is no escape; you can ignore it but this is not the solution. You can try and cover it, like if you take an onion and cover it with a piece of cloth it will still have the smell and the longer you leave the onion, the more covers you need. Similarly, the longer you keep the negativity in you, the more covers you need. The more covers you have, the heavier, weaker and insecure you become. The more insecure you get, the more fearful you become. You don't want your covers off-that is the whole fear because you, let alone others, can't put up with your own smell that is the negativity.

So meditation is one of the methods to get rid of that weight. You are hurt, you are carrying baggage or you are heavy- that is why you cannot meditate. Meditation is like flying and you have to be light in order to fly. When you sleep, you drop your ego and you don't know who you are. And that is why you are able to sleep so that you can forget about all that you don't want to forget.

Listen to this discourse to find out more.

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