The Fine Line Between Meditation and Hypnosis
There is a fine line between hypnosis and meditation. While meditation is intended to lead us to full awareness of the present moment where Reality lives. Hypnosis does just the opposite. It puts us asleep to the present moment. Allow me to illustrate the point.
Let us imagine a prisoner in solitary confinement. There is a small concrete room devoid of anything at all except a built in iron bed and a small barred window through which sunlight pours into the cell. The prisoner sits on the floor and looks at the ray of sunlight in front of him. Within the sun ray he sees a speck of dust floating lazily up and down on the heat waves of the sunlight, almost as if defying gravity.
At this point the prisoner can do one of two things. He can quietly observe the floating piece of dust as just another part of his momentary experience in his prison cell, within the cell block, within the prison or...he can fixate on the piece of dust unto forgetfulness of his surroundings. One way he remains in the cell, with awareness of the present and all that is going on around him. The other way induces a forgetfulness of who he is and where he is...escaping his cell and situation mentally by fixation upon the dancing dust particle.
So what is so important about being in the present moment? And what is so bad about escaping the reality of the present moment?
Suppose for a moment that you are a mother of a three year old. And let us suppose you like to watch your afternoon soap operas on TV. Is it so difficult to see that with your attention divided, or lost into the TV that it could pose a danger to your three year old? Is it difficult to see that being lost into the fantasy playing out of the TV screen could easily become an opportunity for your three year old to find some pills in your purse, or some poisonous cleaner under your kitchen sink without you realizing it? With your attention hypnotically fixed away from the present moment where your child is he could swallow some pills thinking them candy, or ingest some poisonous liquid making him sick or worse...a lot worse.
Maintaining awareness of the present moment, being conscious of everything going on around you moment by ever present moment is your personal safety, and the safety of those that depend upon you. Hypnotically getting lost into distraction from the present moment puts you, and those dependent upon you, in potential danger of things sneaking up and taking your by surprise, sometimes with deadly consequences.
Rick Hurst
http://rickhur.blogspot.com
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