Here we will discuss the concept of meditation and its various techniques and objectives, and how it pertains to women achieving orgasm. We will cover the different levels of consciousness or awareness, the three main meditation techniques, and the key objectives that can be achieved through meditation and contemplation.
What is meditation? Meditation is what we call super focused awareness. There is no mental interference, just the cessation or the disappearance of all extraneous stimuli. In other words, there are no more mental activities, no more thoughts, feelings, or images that intrude. There are also no more sensations, whether they be bodily or sensory; this disappears in the meditative state. The person is actually able to have self control and keep these things out of the mind.
How does one cultivate or actually develop the state of either contemplation or meditation?
There are four states of awareness.
Levels of Consciousness/Awareness
The four levels of awareness are: reflection, concentration, contemplation, and meditation.
- Reflection is the lowest level with many extraneous mental inputs.
When a person is aware of or thinks about any kind of thing in any unfocused way there usually is a tremendous amount of intrusions by external or extraneous mental input: many thoughts or feelings, sensations from the body or sensations from the senses that keep impinging on that level of awareness and breaking the focus. This is reflection, which is the lowest level. Most of us are stuck here most days.
- Concentration involves focused awareness but still has mental interference that continues to break the focus.
This is when the person is able to focus or direct her awareness or her thinking onto a certain object, topic or person. Of course, there's a much greater state of awareness because the awareness itself or the thinking itself is directed. But even in this state, we find that there's still the extraneous mental input that keeps bombarding the mind of the individual. This saps her ability to either focus or maintain directed thinking. You still have those thoughts/ images which seem to come and go spontaneously. These are products of the unconscious will.
-Contemplation is intense focused awareness with no extraneous mental input.
The third level, which is a much higher level of awareness, is much more difficult to attain. It is the same idea as concentration, except she directs, controls, or focuses her awareness on a certain object or person. How well she succeeds in removing or shutting out any and all of the extraneous mental input will depend on the intensity of her directed awareness.
- Meditation is a "super focused awareness" with no mental interference.
This is a state which we call super focused awareness. It is when the experience that she is having becomes the total focus of her awareness and she merges with the experience itself. The entire field of awareness is focused on that one single experience, Orgasm. There is nothing left of her awareness that can focus on anything else. It is a super focus or super direction of the mind on this given experience and other person. At the same time, she has removed or excluded all interfering phenomena. All intrusional phenomena, or any of the sensory or bodily sensations, mental activities such as thoughts or feelings are gone. The meditative state is a state in which she is completely and absolutely present in being. Nothing else enters. This is the greatest level of consciousness or awareness a person can achieve.
The more awareness you have, the more you are focused on your own experience, the greater is the faculty of your creativity that the mind has on that experience. What happens when a person focuses in such a way on this experience? What happens when her level of awareness is increased manifold in this single moment? New subtleties, new shades, new aspects, new elements or facets of an object are revealed with greater awareness, new relationships, new fundamental principles, and so on. This person is able to see these things because she has attained much greater awareness and heightened consciousness about this thing that she's thinking about. This is enhanced creativity.
Meditation Techniques
There are three variant forms of achieving the same goal and it is this goal which leads to the contemplative or meditative state. These three types of meditative techniques are:
Sound meditation
Contemplative or sight meditation
Internal visualization or image meditation/ fantasy
What is sound meditation? It is when a person concentrates or focuses awareness on a word, phrase or a sound. Repeating a word, phrase, or sound through pronunciation, whispering, mouthing, or merely thinking about it focusses the mind. Consider your breath and the sound you and your husband are making during intimacy as an example of sound meditation. Moaning.
The second meditative technique is called contemplative meditation. This is when a person gazes, looks at something/someone, or any object. This could be a written word, a written phrase, or a written symbol. With concentrated effort or focus, directed awareness, this is called contemplative meditation.You see the object of your concentration… your partner, not a sound, but it is rather a sight. Wow, what a sight! This is contemplative meditation, another variant form of how a woman can achieve the meditative state to orgasm.
The third method of developing the meditative state or contemplative state is image meditation/ fantasy. This is when a person evokes the image of someone, something or themselves. Usually a person fixates on a memory, or a fantasy, and holds it there concentrating on it. In other words, a focused awareness upon this image for a specific period of time.This is called visualizing meditation or imaging meditation. It is not a sound; not a sight; it is an image that a person holds in her mind and concentrates her gaze, so to speak, her mental gaze, on that object for a specific period of time.
The objectives of these techniques are to develop focus/awareness skills and to still the mind.
The key objectives of meditation and contemplation are:
1. Enhance relaxation response
Meditation can enhance the relaxation response or cultivate intense deep relaxation.
2. Loosen physical bonds with the self
A second objective that meditation can achieve is it can loosen the physical bonds from the self and begin to have overtones of certain significance to prayer and religious observance. A person can de-emphasize their attachment to the physical world.
3. Gain conscious control over unconscious mental productions
The third objective is gaining conscious control in the sense that you can suspend the mental productions, which are thoughts, images,or feelings of the unconscious. You can actually gain control consciously by suspending or removing all kinds of mental productions from the unconscious will.
4. Acquire the skill of intense concentration
Acquiring the skill of intense concentration or super focused concentration, awareness toward any subject one wishes. Developing the discipline whereby if you want to think about something or be aware of something, you can shut out everything and zero in on anything you want to. This is enormously beneficial for somebody who wants to learn anything or experience anything deeply.
5. Attain greater states of consciousness
The realization of a super focused state of awareness itself is the objective.
6. Gain greater knowledge and creativity about the object of focus
Creativity is tremendously enhanced when you meditate or contemplate. What happens is that by focusing awareness in a very intense way, you see many new relationships, new ideas, new shades, new elements of a given thing that enable you to restructure something and look at it in a different way.
7. Achieve enhanced perceptive awareness of an object
A seventh objective is that not only does it give you greater awareness of what you think about or what you're aware of, but also it can give you an enhanced or a greater perspective or awareness of an object. For instance, if you gaze at a rose or you gaze at a beautiful scene you focus awareness into that scene; that scene will become different to you than it is for the average person.
8. Arouse strong emotional states
An eighth objective of meditation is that it can arouse in you strong emotional states. For instance, if you meditate upon your partner, this will yield certain emotional states toward them which could lead to greater love. If you meditate on spirituality, spiritual worlds, or whatever different ideas or concepts, certain emotional states will be of more intense focused awareness.
9. Channel internal and external energies
A ninth objective, and this objective is very important for yoga, for the martial arts, karate, and a higher level of intimacy. You can channel sources of internal energy and sources of external energy. Channel these energies to any desired area of your body during intimacy or to your partner's body.
10. Achieve self-realization or self-liberation
The tenth objective is that you can achieve realization of self. Self-realization, self-liberation, or self expression.
11. Achieve attachment, communication, and perception of spiritual realms and entities (specifically in Judaism)
The 11th objective is an objective which is specifically Jewish in nature. Judaism uses meditation to achieve communication, attachment, and perception of spiritual beings and spiritual or transcendental worlds.
Intellectual Meditation
An alternative to full meditation/contemplation is "intellectual meditation" - prolonged, frequent periods of intense, focused thinking on a subject. (hitboddut) This can enhance awareness and achieve many of the same benefits as meditation without fully clearing the mind. Great thinkers and scholars often exhibit this type of intellectual immersion in their fields.
Greatness in any area of knowledge is really achieved by a total immersion in that area of knowledge, especially if it's over frequent periods, over many years. Awareness of the individual toward that area is extremely enhanced. Very heightened, almost as if you and the area of knowledge merge. That's how ontologically hooked up you are to that area. If it happens in the area of spirituality, then it's almost as if the spiritual world that you're in, you actually reside in. In other words, you experience a strong emotional state, emotional high, almost as if your being or self resides in the area of thought. And if it's spirituality, you almost feel as if you reside in a spiritual world.
-Excerpts on meditation from Rabbi Mendel Kessin, you can hear him on Torah Anytime.
