01-24-2011, 10:39 PM
Of course, a perfect quiet distraction-free environment is ideal. Jehoshua meditated in the desert; Gautama Siddhartha in the countryside. Barring the ability to have such, one can use white noise. I personally use Hemi-Sync and find it allows me to un-focus, as it were.
Don't worry if you meditate for hours a day. Begin with five minutes, or even a minute. The important part is to do it consistently. Thoughts will come; they do for everyone. There are many methods, but I do a simple one the same as many do. I concentrate on my breathing, in, pause, out, pause, over and over. It is important to just go with it; trying too hard won't get one anywhere. Soon the space between thoughts will come, and will get longer. That's where one wants to be.
I personally began with a goal of 15 minutes, but rarely lasted five minutes, getting frustrated because the thoughts just kept coming. Then it went the opposite way for me. About five minutes in I just went away into the stillness and came back 45 minutes to an hour later. That didn't seem right to me; I thought something was wrong, like it shouldn't be that easy, so I worked on more conscious stillness, a connection with intelligent infinity. That got me into work in the indigo, and that is a place, when one has been there, is where I enjoy being. It doesn't always happen for me. Sometimes I don't get five minutes, other times it just works. Just go with the flow and be consistent. It will happen for you.
Don't worry if you meditate for hours a day. Begin with five minutes, or even a minute. The important part is to do it consistently. Thoughts will come; they do for everyone. There are many methods, but I do a simple one the same as many do. I concentrate on my breathing, in, pause, out, pause, over and over. It is important to just go with it; trying too hard won't get one anywhere. Soon the space between thoughts will come, and will get longer. That's where one wants to be.
I personally began with a goal of 15 minutes, but rarely lasted five minutes, getting frustrated because the thoughts just kept coming. Then it went the opposite way for me. About five minutes in I just went away into the stillness and came back 45 minutes to an hour later. That didn't seem right to me; I thought something was wrong, like it shouldn't be that easy, so I worked on more conscious stillness, a connection with intelligent infinity. That got me into work in the indigo, and that is a place, when one has been there, is where I enjoy being. It doesn't always happen for me. Sometimes I don't get five minutes, other times it just works. Just go with the flow and be consistent. It will happen for you.