(Sometimes its tough to strongly disagree with someone without sounding like a dick about it, so...roll with the writing style
Enough of what you wrote is in direct opposition to years and years of my efforts and experience.)
Originally Posted by
Primalredemption
The best meditation you can do is Trance work. Or more technically, getting into the mind awake / body asleep state where your brainwaves are in theta and eventually delta. Being in a trance automatically opens energy channels and in conjunction with energy work techniques like tactile imaging will develop you psychically and spiritually 50 times faster than other methods.
(If I had a buck for every time I've heard someone say X method is way faster than others...certain mind/energetic methods are faster than others, but breathwork is the underlying foundation beneath it. One cant just trick his nerves.)
Any time I've heard someone emphasize trance work, further questioning has revealed significant misunderstanding of the process...the deepest of my meditations I am every bit as aware as I am at this moment responding. "The void" is not oblivion; optimal quiescence is a matter of paring back physical processes to their bare fundamentals, it is an ongoing dynamic efficiency game, in a sense.
There is some conflation of cause and effect....what EEG (electro encephalo gram) measurements have said about the state of the conscious awareness (while someone meditating is in a controlled setting and has sensors placed on them and scientists trying to figure out how the brain behaves in deep meditation,) is just describing desired outcomes with a vague and undefined path to get there. (Part of the issue with surface EEG is that they are rather limited in their ability to measure what's going on deeper inside the brain - and if an accurate EEG is to be taken, then sensors need to actually be placed in deeper regions of the brain. Dont take my word for it though, this is from neurological studies and empirical measurement. MRIs have at least been able to look internally a little more, but still, the fact remains that understanding some outcomes does not necessarily convey understanding of the fundamental processes that produce those outcomes.)
This is like saying a lot of middle class families have college degrees, therefore if we make sure more people have college degrees then we will necessarily have more middle class families. I hope you see the logical fallacy there.
The whole sitting down focusing on your breath thing doesn't accomplish much. You really want to maximize your results in as little time as possible. If you are going to actually sit down and "meditate" you should have a clear and strong goal for doing so. MINDFULNESS on the other hand is essential and not only should you be focusing on your breathing at every waking and sleeping hour, but you should be aware of every square inch of your body, aware of your surroundings, aware of your mind. It becomes second nature because it IS your second nature. Your first nature is consciousness, and your second nature is to be conscious of what you are.
Maybe its an irony that what is apparently a slow plodding rote method is actually the way to get the better deeper longer lasting and highly reproducible phenomena - solidly, quickly - so that the signposts happen every session. "Doesnt accomplish much" is perhaps one of the whitest of white belt statements ever uttered on this subject. One does not simply snap his fingers and attain deep meditative states any more than one could roll on the mat a few weeks and think he'd give Eddie a run for his money. I highlighted reasoning for this in my previous post - this is no different than training for a ufc title bout if one is even thinking about reaching for the brass ring. (Breathwork is but stepping foot inside that door, though. Energetically surpassing a physio-spiritual coefficient of friction is a long hard path.)
And regarding having a still and silent mind- thats like putting the cart before the horse. A silent mind is your natural state. Your mind is so damn noisy because your energy channels are all clogged up, astral entities are parasitically leeching off you and living in your etheric body injecting their thoughts, and especially in modern times the swarm of media and cellular towers transmissions fills your mind with endless noise. The global elite satanists have also layered on very strong black magic to Hollywood blockbusters and all television for that matter, which glue to your etheric mind and loop endlessly. Ever heard the phrase "I have a song stuck in my head". Yeah, because it's literally stuck in your head.
I'll agree that a silent mind is the natural state (of consciousness itself) but I the reasoning is not the same. (I've established the physical reasonings why these things happen and they are well supported by research, not to mention "restrain the senses" is emphasized in many, many different disciplines, and my reasoning above is the why that is common to all of these various disciplines.) Perhaps I didnt describe the neurological processes in an easily readable enough manner, but they are absolutely the underlying issue for why a human brain spins thought from idle energy - it is a default overflow valve for unharnessed energy. Misunderstanding is the notion that simple focused awareness is enough to quickly and efficiently get the result and some assumption that training this for years and extracting every last efficiency from it wont yield much of anything else.
So in conclusion, every waking moment should be a "meditation". Free your etheric body of astral parasites, media programming and black magic and open up your energy channels and your mind will be serene like a deep and crystal clear lake pretty much all the time. And it doesn't weaken your ability to think- on the contrary it strengthens it.
I dont think I'd be quite as confident in my writings as I am if I had not...
-been training this for 14, 15 years
-spent first 3 years of training almost exclusively on this
-have had a wacked enough life that events have hurt my efforts here and there, so thus I have gained and lost and gained again, and with each immersion of practice-time-chunks I have had the same repeatable results and road signs - things like metabolic boosts like that of a first month's working out, simply by longevity breathing and arranging the physical in as efficient of a configuration as possible. 8, 10 separate practice chunks in my life I have arranged all this and by this point its no less familiar than driving across town to my parents house.
-taught dozens this and then some - and a couple people here and there get it enough and when the practice points are followed the benefits are well conveyed....I dont know that any of 'em were reaching the minute and a half mark that I was, because nobody put in that much effort to it...when you can average such durations over the span of
hours...every day...and seeing these results over and over and devising a method that's thorough enough that 5-10 minutes of sitting and there's already *that* deep meditation happening...
Sorry bro but seeing someone write things like
breathwork doesnt accomplish much, it is facepalm worthy and disappointing, it'd be like hearing a fighter say
"I can strike well enough that I dont need a ground game - ever."
Spending 15 or 20 minutes here and there will not convey significant benefit - one really wont start to realize significant benefit from this until one has made a habit of at least an hour a day using efficient techniques - this is why its best to arrange affairs so that it becomes part of getting ready for bed at night (and it'll take a couple months of it before any real significant benefit amasses, but make no mistake this directly ties into Ohm's law resistance calculations and is THE way to increase energetic amplitudes - lower the resistance -
the deeper the yin, the more potent the spark of yang arising from it.)
When one gets very deeply into meditation, at first, one is able to get those cool very quiet moments like if you hold your breath....once the breath is rolling well, then the states last longer and longer - but make no mistake, if you lose the focus of awareness for
a moment, then byebye, its *that* precarious at first. This is the reason to blur the transitions between inhale and exhale, and one is really only able to do that well once all of the efficiency gains have been realized. (Are you getting why this is also preparing to learn how to die?)
That's where it becomes a mind-awareness game, its like standing a pencil on its freshly sharpened tip.
Once enough work is done that the states can be stabilized, the mind can be stabilized, things are maintained in this highly efficient state...
Well, the first time I realized the energetic connection between
energy amassed and
duration of breath able to be sustained, I drank 3 days in a row on a July 4th weekend and went from 1:20 breaths thursday to barely being able to do 25 seconds on monday - voila, breath duration is partially a function of energy amassed in the gut. Verified this one a couple different ways also. I will end here before I ramble too much further, I type fast as a mofo so sorry for being a bit verbose.
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