When you think, hear, speak, cry out, engage in something physical or stressful the waves are produced. With meditation everything stops. Your brain may be totally still, unmoving. It’s really possible. When the surface of the brain quiets and becomes still we begin to see and feel what is underneath. We wouldn’t know there's anything much underneath our consciousness except what we may see from the surface.
The basic truth about meditation is simple that you could learn it in just five minutes and you can readily engage in it anytime and anywhere. Yet you should constantly engage in it to improve on it. Likewise, it could also be developed into a habit wherein it becomes natural or second nature to a person to engage in it. The more one practices meditation the higher the level of meditation one can achieve.
Empty Mind Meditation is a meditation technique in which the mind is gradually emptied of all thoughts which interfere in the process of meditation. Buddhists call this method Vipassana or Anapanasati. They devote themselves to years, sometimes an entire lifetime, of dedicated practice to achieve the state where thoughts disappear completely or no longer arise.
In the ancient times, spiritual greats had used the Empty Mind method to attain enlightenment. The reason why “Empty Mind Meditation” is commonly used lies in the fact that the ultimate purpose of meditation is to attune oneself to the universal will by emptying oneself of the “ego” or the self. The mind is a powerful tool which sometimes hinders us from achieving the inner peace which we all seek.
Empty Mind Meditation helps them find some relaxation from the highly demanding and hectic lifestyle in which most modern people find themselves.
The mere practice of emptying the mind enables a person to free the mind from the anxious thoughts which clutter the mind throughout the day. By achieving a relaxed state, one can de-stress the body and consequently achieve healing of some ailing body parts. The constant practice of Empty Mind Meditation is beneficial to the holistic development of oneself.
The five areas of life improved by the regular practice of Empty mind meditation are: the Physiological Aspect, the Social Aspect which involves the way we relate with other people, the Intellectual Aspect, Emotional and, the Spiritual aspect.