“When we understand that this-finding that quiet place within where thinking ends and consciousness begins- is the most important goal and purpose of meditation, then it’s easier to understand and use the various forms of meditation.

Nearly every spiritual tradition on Earth has developed some form of meditative practice, and each is intended to arrive at the same place. Because each practice is rooted in the culture and assumptions and traditions of a particular time and place in the world, each has a different flavor and energy.

While many books and teachers will tell you that meditation is about reducing your blood pressure or calming your jangled nerves or improving your health, those are all just side effects. They do happen, as has been confirmed in study after study, and meditation can be a powerful tool for physical or emotional healing…but that’s not where its real value rests. The true power of meditation–and the reason for meditating-is to become awake in this very moment. And from that place–that here and now touching of the power of life—we can find the ability to transform ourselves and others in ways that can and will transform the world.

This seemingly very personal work is actually among the most important things we can do to save the world, because as we become acquire and radiate a spiritual strength—the solidity and reality of spirit that tribal people have known about and used for millennia.

It’s amazing to think that it’s possible to change the world by changing ourselves, by changing the way we think, live, and experience every moment, but that’s been the core message of almost every religion in history, from the most ancient and primal to the most modern. You can change and save the world by changing yourself. And that begins with waking up to the power of life in the present, and finding there the presence of your Creator and all creation.”

-From the Book: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartman

When I was reading this instantly Boabom came to my mind. I started to analyze the way that Boabom works with the meditation part. When we go inside the room to express and learn the movements, the whole room becomes like being inside of your mind, or inside the head. That’s where the entire world exists. And then…the mind-body movement starts to happen.

Focusing the mind in each movement, challenging the body in each application in an organic way, never stressing.

We learn to “meditate” inside of this room, creating new connections in the brain and developing different breathing techniques. We improve ourselves inside this place. We face our inner minds and watch how our life habits start to come out, then after accepting them…we breathe and release.

Some people might think that Boabom is a strong art. Some people will say that Boabom is a very soft and gentle art. I like to say that Boabom in real essence is neither one, but like a fire that dances, moving our internal human energy, that is hard to describe.

Inside this “meditation room-mind” we learn, accept, improve, evolve, change. When all this happens, we can say that the world is learning, accepting, improving, evolving, and changing as well.

Abraham (Boabom – North)