Why do we feel good after a meditation?

The answer is almost ridiculous and yet it is true!

Let’s say a man is hitting his head against a wall. When someone asks him why does he do it, he says, ‘Because it feels so good when I stop!’ That’s what we are doing to ourselves day in and day out: we are constantly banging our head against the wall. Because we are angry at someone, stressed because of something, jealous of somebody . . . it feels so good when we stop doing it.

The reality is that it has always been good. It is us who have been banging our head against the wall, and so it doesn’t feel good anymore.

The crown chakra—the energy center at the top of our head—is constantly spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise, drawing in and throwing out energy and linking us with divine energy. This chakra is our source of and link to divine energy. When we do a meditation, the crown chakra begins to expand. So much so that it makes us the source of our own energy.

The crown chakra is supposed to be the width of our shoulders so that we are always walking in a column of energy. But for most of us, the crown chakra is the width of one hair because of all the stress, fear, anxiety, insecurity and jealousy we experience.

We are all born with the feeling of everything being perfect. But as we start growing up, we also start building our own personalized wall to bang our head against. So when we meditate, we are not banging our head against that wall. Instead, we begin to generate energy from within ourselves. Naturally, it feels great after a meditation because we are enveloped in divine energy.