Developing patterns

[Tiny]

Dear folks,

I believe that this topic is very important, Stookie has mentioned it in some thread before.

It is my experience that every once or twice a week I find myself having developed a pattern, a habitual response of procedure in mental work, be it meditation, energy work or astral projection and these patterns turn out to be extremely counterproductive. It's like relying on a magnetic imprint, it gets weaker and weaker and eventually leads you astray and when it's fainted you lay in complete stupor and confusion and unable to proceed.
Apparently one can not exercise spiritual work like learning an instrument but practice every day as if it was the first ever.
It simply can't be "learned" as it were  



Thank you for your time  

[Stookie]

...but practice every day as if it was the first ever.

Beautifully put  

[Xanth]

Someone once told me something regarding making a pattern a "habitual" response.
You have to do it something like 21 times in a row.