Meditation sites or help

[Rob]

Sit down, close your eyes, and let your mind sink into a trance (force it or in its own time, whatever you feel like). Then do/think something (productive?) - for instance, thinking nothing at all! Thats what I do anyway, although I usually just let my mind drift around the place and see where I end up.
Some people have elaborate meditations on specific themes, you might want to try that, set out a thought to start with and follow it through at the exclusion of everything else - maybe using audio sessions. Personally, I've never bothered with any of that, just go with the flow!
btw at first you will get plagued by lots of idle/useless/mundane/distracting thoughts, which getting into a trance can help with a lot. Pay them little attention and when you realise you are wandering off into irrelevancy, just cut the train of thought.
I like:
watching the images/movie screen behind closed eyelids (spectacular, better than any special effects, and gets you used to using a kind of mental "screen")
observing my own mind (find out where the thought impulse/spark originates from in your own head, physically, soon this will take on the slight and strange quality of an inner metaspace, very useful for increasing your powers of observation, also with practise allows you to annihilate thoughts before you really know what they are)
getting into a deeeep trance and letter my lower/deeper/unconscious mind take over (barely conscious) - when I come out of this state I usually don't have any real idea what I was doing. But it can be hard to make yourself get into this state, as your conscious mind needs to release control, and that not something you can *try* and do!

although, I am still quite slack when it comes to meditating, and when it comes down to it, it's a highly individual process, especially in results.

enjoy...

[DjMidgetMan]

you say that you should do/think something... is it easier to solve problems while meditating?? or do you think i could envision a peice of music??

DjMidgetMan
  "Mind over Matter"

[Rob]

you can think much deeper when in trance meditation, the annoying surface thoughts slowly phase out and a more profound level of mind comes into play. Envision a piece of music?? Don't really know what you mean but sounds good! Just try all these things, practise, is the only way you will ever find out.

[Vladimir]

Hi!
There are countless meditation techniques and you'll have to find out what suits you the best but all of them lead towards the one and same goal - self realization (when person understands that he/she is not his body, mind and ego but pure consciousness) and later on, God realization (when one realizes that consciousness is the only reality that exists).
Whatever meditation technique you chose, you must consider following:
1) Every body position with your spine straight is good, you don't need to perform asanas (special body positions designed for meditation) if it is too hard for you, but the position you chose must be easy to obtain for a long period without any movement (also that is my recommendation for you how to start with meditation:
chose the body position and try not to move at all for 1 minute first day, 2 minutes second day etc. Even eye blinking is counting as a movement and you have to start all over from the beginning. When you reach 15th day it will be a sign of steady position and you can move on further).
2) Basically, meditation is an art of stilling thoughts until they completely disappear. When thoughts disappear, ego also disappears automatically and everything that youare is pure, undisturbed, blissful consciousness. Later on, after you master this stage,
it is just a question of how long you can hold this thoughtless awareness. To achieve this, first you must reduce thoughts of your individual mind and the best way to do this is to chose one object of concentration (it can be anything, either real or imagined) and to try to fix your attention on that object only, like it is everything that
exists and try to "push" away every thought that is not related to your object. Fixed concentration will help to reduce your individual mind's thoughts. Later, when you make some progress with concentration you can chose the pause between two thoughts for your object of the concentration. When you achieve thoughtless awareness you will enter the conscious mind (individual mind is also called unconscious mind) that is one and same for all living beings.
3) Active sex life is not very good for meditation and can be obstacle in achieving higher levels of consciousness. It will also prevent you to awake your kundalini energy which is very helpful in a meditation.
4) One of the most important things is to not put pressure of success on yourself. Meditation (and everything else in life!) must be performed willingly and joyfully just as a child play.
5) You must always keep alerted awareness to be at its max and clear, wondering into kind of sleepy state is a sign that you are doing it wrong. Samadhi (the ultimate goal in meditation) is nothing more than state of superconsciousness, the total opposite of dreaming.
6) There are, of course, tones of stuff more, like pranayama (special breathing exercises), mantras, yantras etc. There is no real need to know about all that because meditation is not about knowing, it is all about actual experience.

Check out the www.heavenlygardens.org for free books on Pantanjali yoga.

Best wishes, Vladimir

[eYeBallKiD]

The main point of meditation really is not to try and stop thoughts, but to seperate yourself from thoughts. To not identify with our thoughts, or for that matter,  with the body or emotions. Trying to stop thoughts is like trying to wash blood away with blood. You just end up with a big mess.

Just let them roll along.
Remain aloof and don't get involved with them.

If you do this, you will find that they will quiet down naturally without you expending any unnecassary energy.
In time you will find yourself like a clean white sheet of paper without blemish. Nothing but pure awareness.

It's also critical that you continue this throughout the day, not just in sitting meditation. I can't stress this enough!

Thoughts themselves are not bad anymore then the sounds we here.  It's when you identify and get lost in thoughts, that lead you astray.
If you find yourself going along with your thoughts gently remind yourself, 'I'm not my thoughts'.

If you can do this you will soon find alot of your negative traits will drop away and your mood becames lighter.  Just to name a few of the small benefits.

Anyways, I hope this helps.

[YaGi]

Hi DjMidgetMan,

You can look at http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english.php
I'm sure it will help you a lot to start.

Best Wishes

quote:Originally posted by DjMidgetMan:
Im looking to learn how to meditate, whats the easiest way to start?? Im looking for some websites, but if you could give me an easy excercise here that would be fine.

DjMidgetMan
  "Mind over Matter"

YaGi

[Tom]

The core techniques in Astral Dynamics might be a better place to start than a formal meditation technique. Relaxation, concentration, and trance induction. These support meditation as well as astral projection. If you want something to supplement them, a physical practice like yoga or tai chi would be perfect. Reiki and NEW are both very helpful. Meditation is best learned in person from a teacher who can evaluate your state of mind over a period of time and prescribe specific antidotes to obstacles.

[DjMidgetMan]

Im looking to learn how to meditate, whats the easiest way to start?? Im looking for some websites, but if you could give me an easy excercise here that would be fine.

DjMidgetMan
  "Mind over Matter"