Zoetic Meditation - what is it?
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ZOETIC Meditation Techniques – an explanation

Zoetic: (biology) of or pertaining to life

The true benefits of meditation cannot be fully enjoyed unless and until the client realizes that conscious input is essential to success, so I created the term Zoetic Meditation to gently remind that meditation requires active or dynamic input from the client.

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Whether you have practiced any form of meditation before or this is your first time; you have to start from where you are at this moment. There isn’t any other place you can start. No waiting until such-and-such happens or until you have more time or… these reasons, or excuses, appear when the mind is not 100% convinced that meditation can help.

Don’t give yourself excuses; rather tell yourself that you do not feel ready to try meditation at this time and place it on the back burner of your mind where it will re-emerge at a later date when your conscious mind may be more receptive…

The above statement is not intended to dissuade you from meditation: rather I am trying to underline the fact that the quality of meditation is in your own hands and in order to ensure success you must embark on your journey with the deepest desire to succeed.

…or maybe you have done this before and it’s your time now?

We understand our responsibility in the material world.

We know that in order to achieve a certain outcome there are actions we must put in place to make that outcome happen and the act of meditation is not different.

The failure to embrace this fact is one of the most common reasons for people to say "meditation doesn’t work for me".

Other common preludes to unsuccessful meditation include:

- I cannot sit still for long enough
- My mind is too active
- I fall asleep
- I never have the time
- It’s boring
- I always think of other things I could be doing
- When I try to meditate nothing happens

Here is what meditation is not:

- Practiced exclusively by those who seek a spiritual experience
- A reason to simply relax and daydream
- A giving over of the will to someone else and a release of personal responsibility
- Arcane knowledge outwith our understanding

And here is what meditation is:

- An understanding that we are all more than our physical self and there is a power greater than we are
- The desire to take hold of our own power, increase this power, and use it in all areas of life
- Realisation that every thing starts in the mind and if there are areas in our life that we would like to change, that we have the power to change our own mindset and to change our life
- Understanding that no one else can, or should, take control of our journey
- Knowing that anything is possible

Meditation is a skill like any other, we can have a natural talent for meditation or we can learn it as a craft. It really makes no difference as the outcome is the same – and that outcome is whatever you want it to be.

AND FINALLY… the old mathematician knows that if he employs tried-and-tested rules to his complicated equation then he will arrive at the answer. He also knows that there are many ways to get to the answer but that there is only ONE answer. 1 + 1 can only ever equal 2.

The meditation techniques can be likened to a mathematical equation: once the rules are learned, understood and practiced there can only be one answer because you have followed (and more importantly understood) the method employed and there can only be one outcome – success!

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