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Your level of relaxation and deep breathing can be taken even further if you can take a moment out of your day, either first thing in the morning or last thing at night, to meditate. Meditation allows your mind to rest completely and to empty itself of all thoughts. It also helps relax the facial muscles. It can help you feel calm, happy, content, and relaxed or emotionally present. Both spiritual masters and scientists say that meditation brings measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. As you rest and replenish the mind when you meditate, you will experience many health and beauty benefits.

You may, at first, feel resistant to sitting for long periods of time, but if you can just take five to fifteen minutes a day to close your eyes, you will rest your facial muscles completely and fill your body with positive, life-enhancing energy. This will smooth out your forehead and give your body a surge of vitality.

Meditation opens your third eye, the sixth chakra in your chakra system. This is the chakra that helps you become self-realized, develop intuition, and balance your mind. As your third eye opens, your sixth chakra point will become unblocked, and your stagnant energy will start to flow smoothly away from your forehead and out of your system. Meditating and opening your third eye will help you break free of old belief systems and negative thought patterns. As your intuition develops, you will “see” more of life’s truths. You will learn to observe your inner life with your inner third eye. This new clarity and vision will help further remove the vertical crease on your forehead while balancing your mind, body, and soul.

If you feel you are too busy, you can meditate even if you are not sitting in a chair with your eyes closed. You can meditate throughout your day with every breath, no matter what you are doing, as long as you breathe correctly. You can meditate when you are doing any of your daily activities: walking the dog, washing up, ironing, fishing, cleaning, gardening, showering, creating a picture, molding a sculpture, or playing music. As long as you concentrate on breathing deeply from your stomach instead of your chest, your mind will become quiet and focused on the present moment, and you will replenish and nourish your body with healing energy.

Gentle exercise can also be considered a form of meditation. A gentle meditative walk outside in nature is a powerful stress reliever. As you read in Chapter 1, an exercise practice, such as Tai Chi or Qi Gong, can be especially beneficial to promoting a peaceful state of mind.

Tai Chi is sometimes described as “meditation in motion” because it promotes serenity through gentle movements—connecting the mind and body. The main goal of Tai Chi is to teach you how to deal with stress by relaxing your mind and calming your body. During Tai Chi you focus on movement and breathing. This combination will help you to melt away your stress, anxiety, and tension.

As you progress with clearing your soul of negative emotions, your need for meditation will slow. Once you are at one with God, it will eventually cease. This is because you will not have emotions in your soul creating negative thoughts, actions, or events. (You can read more about the Law of Attraction in Chapter 5.) Your mind will be very peaceful because there will be no stress or conflict in your life. If you need to meditate, that is a sign you still have negative emotions to process deep in your soul. But completely purifying your soul, reaching a place of perfected love, and becoming at one with God where you are free from suffering, takes time. It is here that meditation can be a useful support tool until your emotional injuries are gone.

Be aware that you should not use meditation to disconnect from your emotions. Meditation is not meant for emotional avoidance. You cannot clear your soul through clearing your mind. You clear your mind by clearing the emotions in your soul. If you feel that you cannot get through your day without meditating, then you are addicted and are avoiding your emotions. You are fearful of feeling your emotional pain. Do your emotional clearing work first, and then sit down to meditate. You can do that by focusing on refilling your body with fresh energy. Purge your negative emotions while inhaling and thereby replenishing pure, higher vibrating energy from God’s universe. Eventually, your soul will be clear; your deep breathing will be constant, and your inner and outer world will be peaceful