# Meditation > Meditation is detached inclusive awareness rather than withdrawal, with breath serving as the primary anchor and recall tool for centered states. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/meditation # Meditation *A seated person rests in an open shelter beside water where wide ripples slowly continue outward* Meditation, in Bashar's framing, is not a rigid technique but a state of awareness — a seemingly detached, daydream-like observation rather than precise analytical thinking. Almost any state of consciousness can be meditative as long as it is free of worry; the worry that often rides along with analysis is what is "not truly meditative." The image Bashar returns to is expansion: "expand in your imagination until you are a bubble that contains everything, then simply explore all the different things you contain. That's meditation." ## Detachment means encompassing everything, not separating from it A central clarification is that "detachment" in meditation is the opposite of withdrawal. True detachment is to know that you are attached to everything; detachment is "not actually separating yourself from anything" but encompassing everything so completely that "when everything is absolutely on the same level and equal, then nothing gets an undue proportion of attention." What looks like detachment to an observer is in fact "a very centered state of awareness and peace." This reframes the meditative state as inclusive rather than reclusive. ## Many forms, one function Because meditation is a state rather than a single method, the form that produces it varies by person. Bashar describes analysis, observation, focusing, exploring, and examining as all capable of being meditation, provided no worry is brought to them. In a healing context, "relaxed self-examination is one of the strongest ways to get in touch with unconscious beliefs," and "your imagination knows what it is doing and can alter a standard method into whatever methodology will work best for the unique individual you happen to be. For some, closing the eyes and sitting peacefully is enough; writing, painting, singing, or yogic breathing may be the better meditation for another." The function — self-examination that surfaces unconscious material — is what matters; the form is individual. The same principle is given as direct guidance: when imagery appears in meditation (a contact crystal, a teacher, a plane of being), treat it as a "self-given permission slip" that raises your vibration for the communication you are ready for, rather than as an external event to be decoded. And in a psychomantium practice, the simple instructions are to gaze into an undifferentiated reflective surface in dim light, "let your mind wander, stare into the mirror, daydream into the mirror," and put out any request without expectation. The mechanism is daydreaming — the same inclusive, detached state Bashar names as meditation's core. ## Breath is the primary meditation Across transcripts, breath is treated as the foundational meditative act. "Breathing is the primary fundamental meditation. When you breathe deeply in a relaxed and calm state, you are centering yourself into the idea of being at the center of all probable reality. You are regenerating when you breathe, actually aligning yourself with the very pulse of the particular universe you are in at any given moment." Breath is also the recall tool: "anytime you find yourself in a situation where you feel anxious, all you need to do is replicate the breathing cycle when you remember yourself having been in a relaxed state. Use your imagination, invoke that breathing cycle, and it will always bring you back to center." Where the meditative state deepens and the breath naturally pauses, Bashar treats the pause as safe rather than alarming: "when you need to inhale, you will." A still point at the bottom of the exhale is described as "a gateway to something," a process the meditator is moving through; the suggested tool for moving through it is humor — "allow yourself to recognize the humor in that situation and laugh, and your breathing will be back on track. The laughter will take you where you wish to go in your discoveries." This is offered as reassurance, not as a directive to push the practice. ## Meditation as a balancing, integrative act In a healing context, meditation is described as a "balancing, integrating act" that automatically shifts the meditator toward the positive — "even if only slightly; it will be enough to get you moving in the direction of healing yourself" — by allowing the awareness to touch on ideas the conscious mind is unaware of. This is why Bashar frames it as a path to unconscious beliefs: the inclusive state brings what was compartmentalized into the same field of attention. At the level of the whole energy system, meditation is also described as alignment: "the alignment of all of your bodies with each other — all levels of your consciousness aligning, blending, commingling, so that there is a clear path of communication to all levels, from all levels." A teacher or guru is useful in this framing only insofar as they create an atmosphere in which you "suspend your disbelief and allow you to create it for yourself," and a true master is "the first one to tell you, you are your own master." The effect is always produced by the meditator, not bestowed from outside. ## When resistance appears in the practice Meditation can surface resistance rather than peace, and Bashar treats that material as content, not failure. A meditator who reported getting sleepy and losing interest was asked to look at what fear lay beneath the stated goals of relaxation, guidance, and energy flow: "You are not skeptical because if you were, you wouldn't be afraid. You may be using skepticism as a cover for your fear." The sleepiness was read as a manifestation of that fear rather than as a verdict on meditation itself. ## Practical implications A learner can take several grounded implications from these teachings. They describe the practice's internal logic; they are not medical, psychological, or clinical direction. Treat meditation as a state of inclusive, low-worry awareness rather than a fixed technique. If a particular form produces worry or rigidity, the worry is the obstacle, not the form. Interpret "detachment" as equal inclusion of everything in awareness, not as distance from life. The centered state Bashar describes comes from nothing taking an undue proportion of attention, not from withdrawal. Allow the form to vary with the person — eyes-closed sitting, writing, painting, singing, yogic breathing, walking observation can all be meditation when the state behind them is the same. A method is a permission slip, not the practice itself. Use breath as the primary tool for entering and recalling the state: deep, relaxed breathing as the entry, and imaginative recall of a remembered breathing cycle as a way back to center under anxiety. If the breath pauses naturally in a deep state, do not treat the pause as an emergency; when needed, the body will breathe. If fear arises around it, humor and laughter are offered as the specific tool that restores the breath. When strong imagery appears, treat it as self-given symbolic material indicating the vibration you are ready to communicate from — not as an external puzzle to solve or an authority. If sleepiness, boredom, or skepticism arise, look at what fear they may be covering rather than reading them as a verdict on the practice. These implications are drawn from the cited teaching. They are not a substitute for professional care for sleep, anxiety, or any clinical condition, and a medical or psychological difficulty should be addressed with qualified support. ## Representative passages Allow yourself to simply expand in your imagination — expand, expand, expand, expand — until you feel, in whatever way is correct for you, in whatever methodology and by whatever terminology you feel so appropriate, expand until you are a bubble that contains everything. Then simply explore all of the different things you contain. That's meditation. Even analysis can lead you back into a form of meditation; almost any particular state of consciousness can be one that you can ascribe to a form of meditation as long as you do not bring worry into it.— Bashar, What Is Meditation (what-is-meditation#qa-1) The idea of detachment is to actually know that you are attached to everything. That is true detachment. Detachment is not actually separating yourself from anything; true detachment is actually encompassing everything. When everything is absolutely on the same level and equal, then nothing gets an undue proportion of attention.— Bashar, What Is Meditation (what-is-meditation#qa-2) Breathing is the primary fundamental meditation. When you breathe deeply in a relaxed and calm state, you are centering yourself into the idea of being at the center of all probable reality. […] Anytime you find yourself in a situation where you feel anxious, all you need to do is replicate the breathing cycle when you remember yourself having been in a relaxed state. Use your imagination, invoke that breathing cycle, and it will always bring you back to center.— Bashar, The Golden Gate (the-golden-gate#qa-11) Meditation is the alignment of all of your bodies with each other — all levels of your consciousness aligning, blending, commingling, so that there is a clear path of communication to all levels, from all levels. The guru creates an atmosphere in which you suspend your disbelief and allow you to create it for yourself. A master is the first one to tell you, you are your own master.— Bashar, Arcturus (arcturus#qa-1) ## Related - [Presence](https://sassani.app/topic/presence) - [Imagination](https://sassani.app/topic/imagination) - [Higher Mind](https://sassani.app/topic/higher-mind) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Breath](https://sassani.app/topic/breath) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/meditation. The HTML page is the source of truth.