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 How Can We Use Meditation to Define Consciousness?
In a typical method for defining consciousness, there are several different definitions. The definition for consciousness depends largely on the context of which you are trying to think about consciousness. For example, a medical professional in a hospital would define consciousness as the ability of the patient to comprehend their surroundings and be alert. On the other hand, when you trying to define consciousness in relation to meditation, the definition changes. Quite basically, meditation defines consciousness as states of awareness, and there are different levels of consciousness.
In general, meditation defines consciousness in three main levels: sleeping, dreaming, and waking. Studies have shown, however, that this definition is way too general. There are four main states of consciousness, in regular meditation, and there are more in some other types of meditation. Each type of meditation has a more exact way to define consciousness.
Scientific testing has shown that general meditation presents people with the ability to change the state of consciousness that they experience in order to reap certain benefits that each particular state presents. By measuring the electrical activity of the brain during each specific state, scientists have been able to finely define consciousness during meditation through a series of frequencies. Each individual frequency is measured with a scale of Hertz, and shows the level of alertness and brain activity that is experienced during these states.
Regular meditation has four frequencies which define consciousness levels: Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta. In each of these states, the brain goes from the low activity levels experienced while in a deep sleep (in Delta) up the chain to the high activity level experienced when your mind is at its sharpest and you have the greatest ability to focus (in Beta).
Other forms of meditation will have a different, yet still similar, scale to define consciousness levels. Transcendental meditation, for example, uses the same main four frequency states as regular meditation, but it adds three more into the count. According to the fundamentals of transcendental meditation, these additional three levels are known as transcendental consciousness, and practitioners can reach these higher levels of consciousness easily with practice. Transcendental meditation defines consciousness as more of self-awareness.
When added to the four states of regular meditation, the fifth state in transcendental meditation is the cosmic consciousness; it is the state of consciousness that combines the previous four to provide a state of internal self-realization. The sixth state is more of a global consciousness; it accents an appreciation of everything in existence, not just what can be verified by bodily senses. The final state is the unity consciousness, which is responsible for allowing the practitioner to experience a complete oneness with the entire world and everything in it.
The way to define consciousness is not always as simple as black and white. The definition, like many other things, varies with your particular beliefs. It also varies just as much with the type of meditation that you practice. From one form of meditation to the next, the basic idea of what consciousness is stays the same.
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