checking out/dreamin during meditation

[pxr87]

when I meditate or seriously think  or using mind , I was not able concentrate ,felt like slipping into dream type of state and many times  I wake up as if I am waking up from a differnt world( and the memory of the event disappears immediately ) .   some times I can see some images as if some body is looking at me. I thought I can control this, but couldn't.  I contacted a psyhchic healer. she mentioned me that you have lot of emotions that are coming up , which you dont want to face, so you are checking out to different world. she also mentioned that I crown chakra is locked to different dimension making energy entering through crown is split, thus preventing any healing.   I had some problems in controlling the mind. Initially I thought it is lack of control of mind, but it looks like the issue of emotions.  It looks like cleaning the emotions is the correct approach and I see some solutions like  emotinal clearing , but I am n sure how . can any body has the similar os issues which got resolved. If so what is that?

[almost there]

What the healer told you is probably true, and one of the best ways to do emotional clearing and healing is through altered-state work or "meditation".

This may appear to put you in a bind since you're having trouble maintaining the meditative state, but there is a simple solution.  That is "sonic driving" (this is the shamanic term for it) or "brainwave entrainment" (a more scientific, neuro-electric terminology).  There are many tapes, CDs and MP3s around that can keep your brainwaves at the necessary frequency (ideally around the Alpha/Theta crossover point, the planet's Schumann Resonance frequency).  I have noticed that this site's owner offers one, an MP3 called "Abyss".

[psiegel]

what is meant by altered state work?. can you give examples.
what is meant by emotional clearing using meditation. is it like concentrating on the heart and allow the thoughts to come out ?.

I downloaded abyss software. once I used abyss to  relax my mind. what shall I do when I am in that altered state?.

I do meditate regularly but I am finding my self getting lost, so I tell my self (Self hypnotize) to get up when that happen. so I get up no. of times.  For that reason, I feel that I am not doing good at meditation.  I started  to  follow a kriya yoga school instructions which asks to concentrate between eye brows with no thoughts or mere words of OM. Even this making me to go to this world.   I appreciate your suggestions.

[almost there]

There is a good explanation of altered-state work here:
The Shamanic Path

[Greyfox]

Altered-state work is working in an altered-state.  

"State" refers to brain wave status--whether one is in beta, alpha, whatever.

"Work" can be many things--doing the "work" in terms of transformational psychology a la E. J. Gold, or "work" as in doing work for a client--a past-life reading, or entity-release, or psychic reading, whatever.