The Starlight Blog: August 2026

After making my previous post about how meditation can cause harm, I asked, "What are the personal benefits of meditation, and what's the best way?"

This post is a combination of research done from reading the book "The Relaxation Response" (the updated and expanded version) by Herbert Benson and my own findings when meditating. This is also in the form of note taking. This starts out with stress, and then goes into meditation as a way to counteract stress.

There are many health problems that arise from stress:

Hypertension is very common, which can lead to strokes and heart attacks. The age at which people get heart attacks has been getting younger and younger. More and more people have been getting heart attacks in their 30's. This is due to all the stresses of living in the modern world while having to continually modify behaviors to fit ever-diversifying environments.

Technology has made life easier. Survival isn't as much at the forefront as it was for human ancestors, but with technology comes stressors more of a psychological nature that can cause survival-based stress responses to remain chronically activated. Hence, high blood pressure and heart attacks and strokes that go along with this are the leading causes of death globally.

Those living in cities and/or ghetto environments have higher blood pressure compared with those living in rural environments. Again, this is because survival-based stress responses often become chronically activated in such environments.

Many planetary liberation-based lightworkers have ultra-high levels of chronic stress, which can cause health problems of many different kinds as shown in the list above, and probably conditions beyond that list. It absolutely makes sense that many lightworkers have dire health issues. Never again will I underestimate the power of stress to destroy the body.

A major cause of stress is from trying to hold incompatible mindsets/beliefs. Here are some examples:

Work on yourself and go within, but the world needs to change. Don't wait for the Event, but the Event will fundamentally change the world and give you what you truly want and need. You have free will and enormous spiritual power, but powerful forces control, attack, and subdue the surface population. Your consciousness affects reality, but external cabal-circumstances can override your efforts. Raise your vibration, but you will be more targeted/attacked because you radiate more Light. Do inner work, but your inner work must manifest externally for it to be authentic. The Event and Event-level interventions will occur when certain conditions are met (they have been met for several months) and the "State of consciousnesses of the surface population is NOT a deciding factor in the timing of the Event," but "Humans are the biggest problem."

The Relaxation Response was devised as an 'anti-stressor' to all the stressors of the modern world, and is a form of "Transcendental Meditation." Here is the technique:

-- Sit quietly in a comfortable position and relax.

-- Breathe naturally through the nose.

-- Silently repeat a chosen word or short phrase. Traditionally this is done on each exhale, but this can also be repeated at a comfortable, natural rhythm if this is found to work better.

-- Maintain a passive attitude (sometimes called "passive concentration"). Do not judge when the mind wanders; that's just what the mind has a tendency to do. If/When the attention drifts, simply think "Oh well" or something similar, and gently return to the chosen word or short phrase.

This can last 10-20 minutes, or whatever amount of time that works best. The best timing is said to be before breakfast and before dinner.

I've personally benefited from the relaxation response already. Yet, not everyone wants to meditate. Although it has massive health benefits, it's not everyone's thing, and those with PTSD should not continue with a meditation practice and instead seek professional help if it makes their conditions worse. For those who meditate though:

Repeating a phrase to oneself such as "Health and prosperity" can have a dual purpose, with one purpose being to keep the mind from wondering, with the other purpose to imprint a constructive command to the subconscious. Regarding the former purpose, the mind wants to think of something while meditating, so a personal phrase can be repeated for the mind to 'go to' as needed.

The physical environment and parts of the body can be focused on simultaneously. The muscles can be deeply relaxed, with near-zero movement.

Even lifting weights or isometric exercises can be a form of meditation. There are so many methods, and there's no one way that works best for everyone. Meditators can have their own ways of meditating. This is an intuitive process unique to each individual to find what works best. Meditation can be custom-made to make it the most effective and beneficial. Even though the above protocol has been scientifically proven to work, there are many other methods that can work too.

Meditation certainly doesn't need to be for 'planetary liberation.' People don't need to believe that they are 'key lightworkers,' with all the stress and psycho-physiological issues that often go along with that. Meditation can instead be for personal healing, equilibrium, expansion, and so forth, without having to fit into anyone else's paradigm, including mine. (If I have one; maybe I do.) Meditation can even be for the entirely secular reason of creating a healthy physiological state in the body, and nothing more. It can go no further than "I'm increasing vagal activity to lower my blood pressure." The 'fluff' can be taken out of meditation.

If those with PTSD decide to meditate, they can do this in a way that doesn't make their past traumas overwhelming. Trauma can come up and then be released while the attention returns back to the meditative state, with part of the attention being grounded in the physical environment. This is "dual awareness," which was mentioned in my previous post.

It's up to the meditator to decide how much to be the watcher/observer and how much to identify with emotions/feelings that may arise. Those with PTSD who decide to meditate can find a balance, so that "observer mode" doesn't become spiritual bypassing, while at the same time, past trauma doesn't become intense enough to become overwhelming (retraumatization). Trauma can come up and be released in 'manageable waves.'

This is an excellent document regarding the blood pressure lowing effects of Transcendental Meditation and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3303565/

I am going to get into MBSR by reading this book, which is basically the MBSR training manual:

Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Revised edition

However, it's 720 pages long, and this post is long enough already.

To end this post, here are more references:

Work Stress as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4523692/

Association of Psychosocial Risk Factors With a Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15364186/

Psychological Stress and Susceptibility to the Common Cold

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1713648/