it is far more extreme than that. Meditation regularly will lead you to higher awareness, which will help with dreaming, as well as ALL areas of your life.
including self acceptance and love, staying calm and relaxed, leading a fearful life.
furthermore, it will greatly enhance the extent in which you are “tuned” into the universe causing everything to just fall into place. synchronistic events will increase and basically, the satisfaction you derive from your life and the level of your happiness will greatly enhance.
One could easily write a 100 pages about the benefits of meditation without repeating a single thing, so this really is just the a spec in an endless desert…
hahahhaha, exactly! The biggest problem of all is I usually don’t notice the thoughts creeping back. I’ll be with my mind empty and suddenly I’ve been thinking about something useless for a couple minutes
you could have no conscious thoughts in your mind, but there can still be thought pressure in your mind.
The ultimate state is one in which you are free from both thoughts and pressure,
in which your mind is completely silent and no thoughts are even attempting to enter.
Wolvendeer
I believe that all obstacles we have were chosen by us before we came here,
so you probably just figured you won’t need such a challenge, or maybe you thought you needed a calm mind.
I’ve noticed I’m able to silent my conscious thought. Usually then I’ll start perceiving unconscious thoughts (which are cool to listen to ). But I haven’t gotten past that…
The other morning, right after I woke up, I tried to empty my mind a bit. There was some noise outside (cars, dogs,…) but I was able not get distracted by it for a few seconds. Not much, I know, but usually it’s very hard for me. I could still hear them, but they seemed different, hard to explain. Distant, maybe. I was able to focus on my breath. The fact that I was sleepy might have helped though…
and last night I was able to empty my mind and keep it empty for a while. I got this thing I’ve got a few times randomly. I focus my attention on my forehead and I feel a light funny kind of pressure. What and why is this?
Whatever it may be, it is probably positive, you either released stress (strain in the physical terminology) or maybe some limiting belief or mind set.
You have developed in some way.
You can get many of these pains along the way, and the further ahead you go, the less you will experience them.
I personally don’t metitate.
I think I’ll try it sometime…
I think I will just lay or sit on my bed…
Empty my thoughts. escape to the inner depths of my mind.
Let myself drift into a daydream, maybe I will think about a lighted forest, sun shimmering through the trees. Everything will have a faint yellow glow.
All the people I care about from the past and present will be there.
I will see ghosts, peaceful and smiling. (I don’t know why, but happy ghosts seem to relax me…call me weird. ) I can walk the beach and look off onto the tropical horizon…
Yeah… I think I’ll do that.
inhale through the nose, and hold your breath until you want to exhale, and exhale through the mouth
then hold that until you want to inhale, through the nose
do 2-3 times then breath normally
when you are holding the breath, your mind is silent.
i wanna discuss
is the aim of meditation to be in the trance state, not awake, not asleep, focused and balanced,
or is it to be wide awake, and working with cosmic energies ?