1. Get comfortable

2. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing

3. Anything you think a thought, just replace the thought with "chill out" or "relax" instead

4. Just think relaxing thoughts if worse come to worse...



Don't meditate on a "blue" light or "white" light...
Don't even think about "time"...
Don't give yourself a "time" limit to do this or that.

Feel complete relaxation as if you can be there forever. If you fall asleep that is ok too

Relaxation is the key.

I thought last time I read a thread of yours about silence is dead or something

Originally posted by rambo1112
I thought last time I read a thread of yours about silence is dead or something

Not kosher to point out a poster's innate failings.

Look. What your mind thinks is just your mind. Its not who you are. You are the one observing your mind.

So just observe it. You are watching your body machine operate.

Realize that you are not your thoughts or your feelings or anything like that. You are the observer. Another way to think of it is that you are the consciousness who use the body to move around and do things.

And its pretty cool.

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I'll do this sometimes to.help me sleep. The only difference is that I tell my body to quiet down with deep breaths. I focus on my head first and take two deep breaths, long and slow to relax all those muscles; then I'll move down until everything is completely relaxed. I mean it feels like you're going to sink into the bed because your muscles are nothing but dead weight. Then I'll work on shutting my mind off.

I wonder why this is moved into General Chit Chat? Shouldn't this be in Paranormal since this deals with meditation?

Originally posted by Mr Headshot
I'll do this sometimes to.help me sleep. The only difference is that I tell my body to quiet down with deep breaths. I focus on my head first and take two deep breaths, long and slow to relax all those muscles; then I'll move down until everything is completely relaxed. I mean it feels like you're going to sink into the bed because your muscles are nothing but dead weight. Then I'll work on shutting my mind off.

If you are concerned about your "thoughts", I would like to suggest that you breathe in and out saying the word "relax". It helps a lot, and if you have thoughts, no worries just bring it back to "relax". This way you aren't "fighting" thoughts trying to turn it off, but you are working with it for your benefit in this focus meditation.

Originally posted by Gnobody
My apologies, I can only go by what you are saying and the words you type (as quoted above), but at the same time just thinking of a word can only help so much, to help yourself relax properly, there is a process that should be (in my opinion) followed in order to achieve a real physical relaxed state.

I didn't recommend just thinking about a word, I offered a process that goes along with it.

Originally posted by Gnobody
When you sit or lay down to relax, you are resting and feel relaxed, this is good enough to chill out and watch TV or go to sleep, but the kind of total relaxation required to enter into meditation is different, there needs to be total physical relaxation before the mind can be 'relaxed' also.

I am not talking about calmly watching TV or calmly laying in bed thinking. I'm talking about taking time out for relaxation, not watching to tv, not calmly daydreaming in bed, but actually focusing on relaxation.

Originally posted by arpgme
I am not talking about calmly watching TV or calmly laying in bed thinking. I'm talking about taking time out for relaxation, not watching to tv, not calmly daydreaming in bed, but actually focusing on relaxation.

I never said you were, and it's obvious that you weren't, I was just pointing out the differences in the levels of relaxtion.

Regards

Ok its for relaxation. Thank you all for taking the time to explain.

Wouldn’t the act of doing the very things that we enjoy such as a hobby or a person we love hanging out with have the very same affect as the meditation methods above?


Apart for relaxation. Do any of you guy's meditate for personal growth?

Edit:

Look im trying to access the level of understanding of people here, Im a spiritual person & consider my self highly evolved “without boasting” who now looks at more practical solutions rather then a band aid solutions to relaxing & for personal growth.

Gnobody a star for you

Originally posted by MegaSpace
Ok its for relaxation. Thank you all for taking the time to explain.

Wouldn’t the act of doing the very things that we enjoy such as a hobby or a person we love hanging out with have the very same affect as the meditation methods above?

I would agree that a hobby can be as beneficial to calming your mind and body as a relaxation exercise, lets say you like to draw or paint. If you have no other forms of stimulation such as music, TV etc, then the mind can focus and just paint.
At that time of painting, nothing else in the world exists, nothing matters except your painting, you can be focused so much on your painting in a way that you have no other thoughts, no emotions, only the act and thought of your painting is left, concentrating completely on every brushstroke, every line, every colour etc.

This, I imagine, would leave you feeling very relaxed, both physically and mentally.

Originally posted by MegaSpace
Look im trying to access the level of understanding of people here, Im a spiritual person & consider my self highly evolved “without boasting” who now looks at more practical solutions rather then a band aid solutions to relaxing & for personal growth

There is so much one can learn about themselves through introspection and self observance.

Lets say that you want to meditate on the part of you that gets angry, to try and discover why you get angry, upset or annoyed.
After going through whatever process you prefer to completely relax, start to think of a time that you got angry. Try to remember the whole episode from the time you were calm to the time you either lashed out, hit someone, got aggressive or just lost it!

What happened? Why? Did your outburst have the desired outcome? What was your desired outcome?

There are hundreds of questions you could ask yourself regarding just this one incident.

Try to work backwards from the point of 'no return', the point where you 'lost it'.

What was the final straw? What was it that triggered that point in you that anger surfaced and you lost control? Why couldn't you control yourself? Was it because you were offened? Threatened? Your pride hurt?

Try to review the whole episode as an observer, don't get caught up in the emotions of the time and don't fall into the trap of feeling the emotions, try to be objective about it, try to 'step out' of yourself and observe the scene, hopefully you will identify the instant you lost control and maybe you will have learned something about yourself, maybe about your egos, personality, how your mind and emotions work.

Of course, all the above is easier said than done, but it takes time and practice, and total honesty with yourself. You may not like what you learn about yourself, you may find that you are full of pride (who isn't!) who is easily offened, or that you are intolerant, but this is how we come to know ourselves and begin a change.

If you don't want to think of something specific, try just going over the whole day, from the time you woke up until the time you went to bed, How many emotions did you feel throughout the day? What triggered them? How did you react to everyone you met that day? Positively? Negatively? Why?

We have a legion of egos and emotions, this is why getting to truly know ourselves can take a life time, maybe many life times but the truth of ourselves can set us free!

Meditation on yourself is time well spent, you will learn a lot about who you are and why you are who you are.

However, meditation is not limited to gaining knowledge of yourself, you can meditate on anything to gain knowledge, and this knowledge when gained will be a direct knowledge that you personally have experienced, not an intellectual knowledge learned form books or others. Although knowledge from books and others is important too as this helps us understand the process and can help guide us along the path.

Hope this has helped a little.

Gnobody