The beginnings of a stillness. Its funny how loud the internal monologue is when you pay attention. I recommend standing meditation to beginners over anything else. It works the body physically, but in that stillness it also trains the mind to eventually become still. The most incorrect teaching, for me, is to say empty the mind. The more correct phrase would to become empty, since the physical world is 99.99+% space, but thats a goal not a place to start. Stillness by way of any method possible (e.g. single-pointed focus), and there are lots and lots and lots of them, is one of the first goals. By emptying yourself you are actually filling yourself with something greater than whatever your mind can conjure as bright white healing light. Im a visual person but visualization distracts from stillness. The visualization is usually used to train some aspect of the mind or energy body to achieve a specific goal that may eventually help out the goal of stillness. I enjoy music at the right time, usually to alter a state of mind, meditation is not it for me, as that is something in the external and just one more thing to carry the mind again from stillness. Brain entrainment with particular sounds help to achieve meditative states, but the meditation still has to happen and independent of the state.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:52:58 +0000
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