Meditation is Medication

A year ago, this past November, I had finished an intense week of therapy with my clients. I got in my car and traveled through the afternoon into the evening from Colorado to eastern South Dakota to attend my grandmother’s funeral the next day. Generally, when I am driving, I enjoy listening to podcasts and learning new things. Due the to the length of the trip, I wanted to listen to something that would last for hours.

For some time, my heart was directing me to listen to Dr. Joe Dispenza. I was reluctant to listen to another motivational and inspirational manifesto, so I ran across his audio books and began listening to Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, You are the Placebo, and finally Becoming Supernatural.

When I returned home, I ordered all his books and read them as well as purchased his recorded workshops. I had to hear and read it over and over to unlearn what I thought was true about meditation, physics, and the human body, etc. For the first time, I began to understand the hard science, research and data behind meditation and began to see how the quantum changes physical matter. Growing up in church, meditation was something never talked about. Prayer yes, meditation never. In fact, it seemed labeled new age and taboo.

In our last blog, we looked at the steps it took to become unlimited. We also looked at Step 11 “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, prayer only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” To better understand how to become unlimited, we must understand mediation.

I completed this step several years ago in my own recovery and have covered it many times with my support groups. I just glazed over or ignored the word mediation. Now with my new understanding and unlearning of what I thought this word meant, it carried a whole new meaning for me, which I will explain in a minute.

The book of Psalms has the word meditation used 23 times and is, at times, mentioned with prayer. The etymology of the word meditation is medi which can be defined: in the middle, in half, to halve, or medium. A further breakdown of the word, and you get the med which can be defined: to take appropriate measures, to be mindful of, to measure, cure, to think about, to judge, or to estimate.

Med and Medi are found in many different words, such as medicine, medical, medic, meditation, medication, medieval, mediate, mediocre, medium, media, medial, mediator, Mediterranean, immediate, immediacy, intermediate, comedian, dramedies, and remedies.

In Tibetan, the word meditate is believed to also mean to become familiar with. In Sanskrit, it means to cultivate.

In the book of Psalms, this word meditate or meditation is used 23 times alone. Strong’s Concordance number 1897 defines it as to moan, to speak, utter, musing, growl, or resounding music.

In addition, Matthew 6:26 does not use the word mediate but the word look or observe. This word is Strong’s number 1689 for the Hebrew word emble’po’ which can be defined as: to consider, ponder, to look at with the mind, to observe, to look into, locked in gaze, look at in a concentrated way, with special interest or with love or concern.

Now that is interesting. I have written about being the observer in my ego blog series. This helps us better understand the word meditation. In my personal experience throughout the last year, I would say this is a very good description of what mediation has been like for me.

“Sought through prayer and meditation…”

For most of my life, prayer had become that of beggary, of wanting and wishing. Meditation is food for your soul or your spirit. You would not deprive your body of food, water, sleep, or exercise. Why do we deprive our souls of spiritual food and nutrients? Meditation is also about spiritually realigning your position of authority, sovereignty, and divinity.

Scientifically speaking for me, prayer was like trying to change matter with matter or with Newtonian physics. Mediation is about entering quantum physics and changing matter with the quantum electric energy of your thoughts and the magnetic emotional energy of your heart. As you practice mediation, your brain and heart energy, over time, become less fragmented like a shotgun blast and now more focused like a powerful laser working together in unison.

We this in previous blogs and raising your emotional vibration and frequency from survival to thriving and creating. As you practice mediation, you also move from the low emotional vibration of shame, guilt, and fear on this scale up into forgiveness. neutrality, willingness, joy, love, peace, and knowledge.

Your ego become less attached to outcomes of what is “right” or “wrong” as well as how others should live or not live. Codependent behaviors begin to fade away. You are becoming the observer. Life gets easier because you are focusing on what you love and stand for, not what or who you hate. What you focus on is what the quantum world will give you more of, even if it is unhealthy, painful, and destructive.

Finally, your health will begin to change because your body is its own pharmacy as Dispenza would say. Your body has everything it needs to heal itself if you take care of it. Meditation is the medication center for your body. You may not believe me, and that is okay. Don’t take my word for it. Seek the truth for yourself. Research and discover what type of meditation works for you. Did you take your meditation today?

Cory Schortzman Executive Director

Cory Schortzman is an author, speaker, teacher and licensed mental health professional. Since 2008, he has served as the Executive Director of Transformed Hearts Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, CO. He is the founder of SARA, the Sexual Addiction Recovery Association. Cory is passionate about helping couples and individuals overcome sex addiction. He is also passionate about bringing awareness to the public and supporting the elimination of sex and human trafficking. Cory has been married since 1998 to his beautiful wife, Kerry, and lives in Colorado with their four daughters. He and Kerry have been seen on the CBS Early Show, Inside Edition, and ABC Good Morning America, Fox 21 News, and TLC/Discovery discussing the harm of sex addiction and the joys of recovery. He has also been heard on numerous radio programs.

Cory’s books include: Out of the Darkness, Into the Light the Workbook, Into the Light the Steps, Ashes to Beauty the Steps, 301 Dating Ideas, 301 Conversational Ideas, 301 Ways to Say I Love You, 301 Ways to Love Your Children & 301 Recovery Tools & Tips.