Are you meditating or daydreaming?

Abstract

While meditation has its roots in spirituality, it is also a technique to enhance health, wellness, and performance. It is probably also one of the techniques that can answer several of the questions raised by quantum physics, such as quantum entanglement, quantum field theory, wave-particle duality, the block universe, quantum consciousness, superposition, and so on. Most literature on meditation, however, focuses on its worldly benefits, such as health, wealth, and wellness. Spiritual benefits of meditation, such as out-of-body experiences and self-realization, are central to Patanjali’s approach to meditation. Science answers quantum questions through laboratory experiments, and meditation answers them through self-observation, achieved by elevating one's own consciousness to a level that illuminates physical phenomena, which cannot be seen by the naked eye or its extensions. This article makes a passing reference to science-spirituality entanglement but delves deeply into how meditation is misunderstood and misused, what true meditation is, and how to practice it correctly so that both worldly and spiritual benefits can be achieved without wasting too much time.