When you've attained the ability to sit in meditation for an extended period of time, which might require a certain degree of deconstruction for you to get there without excessive inner turmoil, it becomes clear that meditation is not just a behavioral process of sitting down and following a certain directive or technique, but in fact also an energetic process.

What is this energy and what is the process? To get a sense of what the energy "is", you can try a technique like third eye meditation. You "stare" with your inner eye on a point between and slightly above your eyebrows, ideally after holding your finger close to the skin such that you create a tingling sensation. Then you "stare" at this tingling sensation and make it grow. And you might notice the sensation will spread across your forehead, and also that other sensations in your body seem to behave in the same way or even add to the sensation. This is one way to identify the type of energy we're talking about, which is a subtle form of energy which constantly travels through your body and which you can become more perceptive to with practice.

To get a clearer sense of the energetic "process" (the dynamic aspect of the energy, how it travels, how it moves), you can try a technique coined by Martin Ball as "fractal energetic yoga" (20:05 for illustration). You sit or stand in a room with quite a bit of free space (or outside, but ideally on a comfortable surface) and make sure your limbs and fingers and generally your entire body are bilaterally symmetrical (your left side mirrors your right side). Then you simply sit or stand still in bilateral symmetry for a while, and then you try to move while keeping bilateral symmetry. Then try to notice how moving in a certain way is more natural or more flowy than others, where you feel a natural groove that you can tap into. If you do this enough, you might notice yourself moving spontaneously outside your will. That is when you're inhabiting the natural energetic process, the innate dynamic flow of energy that your body produces.

When you have identified the energy, what it is, and how it moves, you can start to do this in your sitting meditation. As you sit there, try to notice this subtle energy and its natural flow that is going through your body. As you become more and more relaxed, as you release tensions in your body, see how the energy is executing these actions, see how it makes you move in these subtle subtle ways. Allow it to do this, observe how it's best allowed to flow. See where the energy is headed. Naturally, it's heading for your head. When you feel the energy accumulating in your head (specifically your forehead), and you feel the connection between the flow in the rest of your body and your head, strengthen that connection. Let your head become a transmission tower for your innate energy.

As you transmit and release this energy, you will feel lighter, more fluid, more present. And as you continue, also in tandem with whatever meditation techniques you use, your meditation becomes deeper.


So this is meditation as unwinding of energy, of emptying out and riding the natural waves of your energy. And over time, you might notice tapping into this natural flow while going about your life, in your movements, or even in your thought. This is when you start embodying or channeling the will of God. When this will becomes too strong to resist, you are now Enlightened.