Altered States Of Consciousness Essay

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Altered States of Consciousness – Meditation vs. Other Ways What I am going to tell you in this post about the altered states of consciousness is based on my own experiences and learning, through this article I really want to debunk various myths associated with meditation because often people with less knowledge about it believe that it is just another way to run away from the reality. Before talking about how meditation works I want to answer a question from what I have come to know about it. What Is Altered States of Consciousness? Let us consider this particular moment; if you are able to perceive your environment with total awareness then you are fully conscious. But during our day we often go through phases where we are not fully awake, it could be when you are daydreaming, obsessed by a particular …show more content…

There are also many other good/bad methods they use for doing this like hypnosis, binaural beats, alcohol and many other stuff that enables them to mess up with their mind's normal working which temporarily helps them to run away from reality. Meditation Meditation is a totally different process from what I have discussed above because rather than making you to escape reality it shows you the true nature of everything. The alerted state of consciousness that one experiences during deep meditations often helps one to have profound insights that could be life changing. See, whenever a person uses the other methods he gets to an altered consciousness state and then comes back with dissatisfaction. He craves for those experiences over and over because that gives him a temporary relief from his life issues. On the other hand, when a person meditates, he wakes up with a satisfaction and he becomes more alert than before, sometimes this shift in perception leads to the end of his

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