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Meditation Tips from Unexpected Sources Part One: EminZen?

© Elizabeth Bissette

Because it awakens the subconscious, meditation can greatly increase your intuition. Once you've got those intuitive juices flowing, you'll be able to deliver more accurate information in your readings. You can also benefit from meditating on single cards. This method can be used for both soul-searching and for gaining a deeper, more personal understanding of the cards.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, mystical Judaism (Kabbalah) and, to some extent, Catholicism (which experienced a strong surge of mysticism during the Middle Ages), place a great deal of importance on meditation. In each religion,the primary goal of meditation is oneness. This oneness can be with God, the higher self, the universe or the soul. When meditating for, or, on Tarot, part of the goal can be one or all of these things.

Meditation is a practice many people have a hard time settling into. Most of us are so busy in our every day lives that the idea of slowing down for a leisurely lunch is difficult to imagine. Clearing our conscious minds of all thought is almost impossible to imagine!

Perhaps part of the reason it is difficult for many people to meditate is that we don't see it every day. It may seem a little arcane or archaic to us. What if I told you I think we do see it every day? Noticing it is only a matter of looking at popular culture from a different perspective. Maybe then meditating will be a little easier.

This, the first in what will be a series of articles, examines some of the songs of Eminem . I don't believe Eminem is trying to promote Buddhism. I'm not sure he knows he's practicing his own type of meditation when he 'loses himself in the moment'. I am sure that he describes achieving a state when he performs that many who practice meditation strive for.

In Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism, the goal of meditation is the loss of ego or self in something beyond self. By doing this, practitioners become one with (or aware of existing oneness with) the universe, the higher self or the moment. This higher consciousness is called Zen.

In his song, "Lose Yourself" (8 Mile Soundtrack ), Eminem describes overcoming stage fright by giving up the part of himself that is conscious of it. He does this by placing all of his being, all of his focus, on the music and the moment. "You better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it, you better never let it go." he repeats throughout the song. He expresses a similar idea in "Sing For the Moment", (

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