A Method of Meditation

The_alpha_monk · 2017-01-23T16:27:15+00:00

This post is awesome! This is a meditation I wrote to conceptualize an increase in mental space: Sequence one

Find a quiet comfortable place that is not totally silent. (or create a music playlist that stimulates thought.)

Get comfortable, either upright or laying down, with your head properly supported, and your limbs arranged so they won't lose blood flow.
start by closing your eyes. Your are comfortable and calm. Start like all traditional meditation, establish the parameters of your body, from your fingers and toes move inward. Regulate your breathing into a constant flow that is easily maintained. I have found it is easiest to rely on just the stomach for this. Relax all the muscles one at a time. Fingers and toes become weightless, move up to wrists and ankles everything becomes weightless, legs and arms weightless. This can go on for an undisclosed period of time. You can only continue when your body is fully relaxed.

Now that you are fully comfortable calm and relaxed, you are now ready for the next step. This is where this meditation differs from what is commonly practiced. You do not need your body for this.

Your body is beginning to fade. First the edges become less important. Breathing becomes a natural flow, easily maintained, effortlessly taken in as the body fades. Now move inward. With each breath your body is fading, safely kept and not needed. Gradually everything fades until you can only feel your thoughts floating. Everything that you are is floating with you, expanding and contracting with every effortless breath.

This is the difficult part of the meditation. It is designed to bring you to the place where you think from. This is the center of your "self". This will be difficult and may take many tries. Do not be discouraged.

As you breath in and out, calm and centered, you can now safely explore your new surroundings. This is the place where no one can ever follow you. The most personal place, where you are the main character on the infinite stage. This is where you keep your thoughts. As you breath in and out, push and explore the limits of this space, delve deep into yourself and find the center. This may take many tries, it is difficult to avoid distraction. When you can consistently maintain this unification of thought and self you are ready to continue.

From this point you have the ability to go infinite places. When thought and self are unified nothing is impossible. You can heal your body, create new realities (determine for yourself what real or fake is), be the universe, encompass all or nothing, increase the space where thoughts are housed, The possibilities are limited to you. This is an aspect of the mind that few people see ever.

Now that you are comfortable going to and from this unified mental state, it is time to increase the space where thoughts can potentially be housed. While breathing evenly in and out, go to the center of your self. Feel how with every breath the space grows. Breath in, focus on your center, maintain what you have built. Your thoughts are bigger, faster, easily accessible, uncluttered and more easily utilized. Breath out, push all thoughts out infinitely, to the farthest reaches of everywhere, to spaces unseen, unknown, the beginnings of forever, create a vacuum for all knowledge. Breath in, Pull in the universe, fill yourself to bursting, everything you know, will know or have known, housed in your own infinity. Breath out, and create your vacuum. Breath in and fill the void. As you progress you feel your mind expanding to limits unknown, to realities only imagined into reality. Your thoughts mixing with the universe and it's infinite potential.

this is the end of this sequence of meditation. From this point you and your mental abilities dictate the heights you are able to reach.

Jackrabbit710 · 2017-01-23T13:18:35+00:00

After reading a meditation post 5 minutes ago, I was then going to search for exactly this. Thanks

Sawagurumi · 2017-01-24T10:41:59+00:00

Like the 'bubble meditation', a 'Structured meditation' of the Inner Way. You imagine yourself sitting at the bottom of a clear lake. When you get a thought or feeling, you simply observe it for 5-8s, imagining it as if it is a bubble going up to the calm surface. Then you wait for the next one. The bubble visualization has two purposes, first to help you concentrate on each thought for a fairly well defined period of time, and second to help you consider each one separately, without being drawn into finding connections between them.

A similar Tibetan meditation is seeing thoughts as logs, floating past you down a river as you sit on the bank.

This is also similar to what Stoics advised, that you would practice a certain distance from your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are caused, not by things and events themselves, but by your thoughts about those things and events. Therefore, you step back and judge your thoughts, and whether you choose to accept or reject them.

SheepDogM24 · 2017-01-23T16:33:20+00:00

Awesome man, this is something I've wanted to try for awhile now. I've always felt weird trying to meditate and trying to force myself not to think about anything. I'm going to give it another go tonight, thanks.

DoubleT06 · 2017-01-23T16:44:46+00:00

There's a free app called Calm that I found useful for learning meditation

United-Liberty · 2017-01-24T07:35:49+00:00

Cool post OP. This is easy and graspable. A way to becoming more present for almost anyone.

It doesn't really need to be harder then this, yet so few people practive even the most basic forms of meditation.

I do wonder though, have you heard about or tried Vipassana? Otherwise, I would advise you or anyone interested in meditation to look it up.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but hopefully I will be able to contribute a report to this community after I've done it now in April.

Katavasis · 2017-01-24T14:33:12+00:00

I don't want to bum you guys out or discourage you,but this is not meditation. It feels good,it eases your mind and increases your focus,but meditation is not about that.

At best,OP described a method to prepare yourself for the practice of meditation.I said the practice of and not meditation.

Why? Meditation is something you practice.When you reach a particular state of mind,then you say you meditate,but that's something actually pretty hard to achieve.

I encourage you to look into traditional techniques,especially yoga. I know the hippies have told you,that you can't be wrong in your method and everyone is special ,but like the gym,some things work and some simply don't.

Indian fellas(gurus,in the traditional sense) are strict,disciplined and very harsh towards imposters,who sell and repackage 'new' methods.

Is listening to music and chilling out meditation?
Is taking long walks meditation?
Is observing your thoughts meditation?
Is the gym meditation?

NO

All of the above DO help,but if you only do them,you are missing out.

'Hey no-value-poster,why don't you tell us how to do it if you are such a smart-ass and you know everything?'

I will gladly make a post about it when i've got the time.I have to say though that most information is out there,you just have to make it through endless new-age crap,snakeoil salesmen and hippy-feelers,to even come close to some meaningful information.

To give you some guidance,search the subjects of Kriya Yoga,Bhakti Yoga and of course Zen(i still suggest you focus on the first two).

(P.S:Mindfulness is another abstract coined term. Mindfulness(samandhi),is again something extremely hard to do and doing that all day is pretty much impossible for the average man(unless you are a Shaolin monk or some shit..)

franz1980 · 2017-01-23T15:59:14+00:00

I don't see how you can sleep and meditate at the same time. Neurology won't allow it.

It is worth noting that for people who cannot settle their mind enough to start meditating sitting/standing, walking is a good alternative as long as their are no distractions on the way.

riverraider69 · 2017-01-23T17:34:33+00:00

If you're tempted by something more traditional, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a wonderful introduction to zen buddhism. The first couple of chapters are about the proper meditation position, and the rest about the mindset.

It's the Western branch of Japanese Soto Zen, which means it contains literally zero religion or mysticism of any kind (and explicitly so). I tried to read different books, and most of them leave too much of an aftertaste to go well with my atheism.

ministypill · 2017-01-23T23:43:06+00:00

I have a tips for any redpiller who just begin meditation.

Find your comfortable position, then focus on your breath. Imagine your are flow up the air when you inhale, then flow down when you exhale.

420lmao69lmao · 2017-01-24T19:19:57+00:00

Isnt meditation about being in a focused, aware state for a period of time? What you are describing sounds kind of off, with all due respect. It sounds like doing nothing. The way I understood it, meditating is being in this minsfull, focused state, meaning you can do anything and call it meditation as long as you give it all your attention and focus.

reecewagner · 2017-02-02T21:33:08+00:00

Question re: meditation - is it possible that I can't properly meditate? I've been invited on stage by hypnotists before and was asked to leave because my mind was too active to be hypnotized. Does the same level of mental activity interfere with meditation? I've heard of the benefits of meditation for a long time and just can't seem to master it - is it possible I never will?

Rugby11 · 2017-02-03T15:49:17+00:00

Some stuff here https://soundcloud.com/user-580652804/the-mark-baxter-podcast-episode-6-rollo-tomassi-and-ed-latimore

Title	A Method of Meditation
Author	l2oland
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Date	January 23, 2017 1:07 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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