Meditation

Clear your mind for meditation

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In a few moments you can close your eyes and begin to relax very deeply but firstly Im just going to say a few words about the experience of finding it easier

and easier to dissolve unwanted and distracting thoughts while meditating.

There is nothing more annoying than unwanted thoughts preventing you from

stilling your mind during your meditation. Disturbing thoughts are a familiar

part of most peoples meditation practice, especially when you are new to it.

Concerns, worries about the day just past or the day ahead, or even irrelevant

ideas can buzz around your head like mosquitoes.

During meditation your conscious awareness is called into play. You extend your

consciousness onto something specific such as the flame of a candle, a mantra,

the rhythm of the breath, or an overall awareness of the environment.

The goals of hypnosis and meditation are different, although there are

similarities. Meditation may be used as a general way of stilling the mind or as

part of a wider spiritual system, whereas hypnosis may be used more specifically

to cure a phobia, to stop nightmares or to help lift the debilitating effects of

depression. Both states involve stilling parts of the mind so that other parts can

become activated, but meditation involves a little more conscious direction. In

fact, the practice of sitting in the lotus position which, in my experience, is

not the most relaxing way of sitting may have originally been adopted to stop students going from a state of meditation into hypnosis.

Meditation has many benefits. It can help you become better at focussing your

mind, become more objective and less swayed by the distortions of emotion and

help your body to work better, enabling immune function to increase and healing

to speed up.

The ultimate benefit of meditation is that it allows us to experience reality

directly and connect with what is happening in this present moment. Perhaps

youve had the experience of being at a party where people seem to spend the

whole time either talking about the last few parties they went to, or speculating


about what future parties are being planned. They never actually immerse

themselves in the happenings around them now, and so, in a sense, they miss

the whole experience. Instead of living in our projections about the future and

our memories of the past, we can learn through meditation to fully engage

with what is. We can avoid the mistake of thinking that reading the words and

descriptions on a menu is the same as savouring the tastes, smells and textures

of the meal itself.

Hypnosis can help you prepare effectively for meditation. Imagine being able to

bat away unwanted thoughts, rise above them and have absolute focus during

your meditation practice. The skill of choosing what you have in your mind will

also extend to other areas of your life, including times when you are not actually

meditating.


Now

you can just begin this process

of shifting your attention inside and relaxing very deeply by closing those eyes right now

and beginning by paying attention to that breathing

the inhale

the exhale

and just noticing where in that body

feels particularly comfortable particularly warm and pleasant perhaps in an arm

perhaps in a leg

that stomach

or chest

wherever the most comfort is right now and just noticing that as a sensation

and as I talk

you can just allow that gentle sense of comfort and rest to spread and flow all throughout the body soothing each and every cell

from the top of the head

to the tips of the toes

and as that happens

just being aware of the facial muscles softening

the jaw loosening

the shoulders sinking

the breathing deepening

thats it

nPauseAnd most of us believe that we run our own minds

that when we think a thought

it is us who is thinking it

but when we deliberately decide to stop thinking

an interesting thing happens


we discover that the thoughts just keep coming

and even now

as you pay full attention to these words

you may notice that if I pause for a moment

some thought pops into your mind

nPauseAnd perhaps that thought was about the past or the future

something someone said

something you have to do

it doesnt really matter

the important thing is

that you begin to recognise

that thinking about things

is something youve done for years

and its become an unconscious habit

and in fact

youve come to think even thinking about it

and of course that thinking has its uses

your tremendous creative abilities to problem solve

to organise your days

to decide on worthwhile goals

and find the steps to reach them

but like any tool

when youve finished using it

you need to simply put it away and engage with life directly like checking a map to find out where you are

holding that paper in your fingertips

peering closely at all the grid references and names of places

and then when you find where you are

and where you need to go

you just fold up that map

put it away

and look around you

breathe in the air

and pay attention to your experience


to the sensation of sunlight on the face

a gently cooling breeze against the skin

nPauseAnd you know where it is that you most often meditate

perhaps its the place youre in right now

perhaps somewhere else

but when you consider the reality

of being fully in the mental and physical space

of that meditation place

how you position that body

how you breathe

and where you place your attention when you begin

thats it

and here and now

you can really begin to educate your unconscious

about when it is that that thinking mechanism

needs to be active and creative

and when it is

that it needs to be absolutely silent allowing you to fully connect with what is and as you continue to breathe deeply

and to completely relax into this experience you can just get a sense of

moving your attention backwards

like taking a step back

into the back of your mind

where all is silent

and begin to watch that thinking mechanism

over there

continue to have little thoughts about this

and thoughts about that

and how the voices

and the images of those thoughts

can seem somehow distant

muted and detached

as though you are deep in a chamber of meditation

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and those thoughts are like flies

buzzing away in another room in the house

and that distant buzzing of irrelevant thoughts

can continue for just a little longer

until your unconscious learns

how to open the window of that room

in that other room of the house

and how one by one

those buzzing thoughts fly out of the window

and the sound of those distant thoughts gets softer

and more and more distant

until there is only a peaceful silence surrounding and embracing you the mind becoming perfectly still like calm water stilling after a storm

reflecting reality perfectly

becoming absolutely still

nnnPauseAnd as you rest in this inner stillness absorbed in the focus of your meditation

you can get the sense of one distracting thought

popping into your awareness

causing a ripple in the lake

and you can just notice that as a thought

acknowledge its presence

and then watch it shrink into a coloured ball

maybe red

or purple

blue or green

and how that ball

floating there before you

can be suddenly and firmly batted away into the distance

by a tremendously powerful invisible force

as if you are surrounded by an impenetrable shield of meditative awareness hearing the sudden crack

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as that invisible bat strikes the ball

and just watching that ball fly off and over the horizon

and once again resting in deep deep stillness that lake smoothing into a perfectly still reflection of the world

and your unconscious knows how to automate this so that whenever its time to meditate

you can notice how

if a thought pops into your mind

you just acknowledge it

watch it transform into a floating coloured ball

and then watch it being powerfully batted away

automatically

way over the horizon

as you rest within that impenetrable shield of silence and stillness

nnnPauseAnd this impenetrable stillness

will always be available to you

as your unconscious absorbs this as a powerful inner template so that as you project this stillness into the future

a month from now

two months

three

four

five

and even six months from now

seeing what youll see

hearing what youll hear

being in your meditation space

six months from now

noticing what season it is

the temperature of the air


how this stillness and inner silence

has become an integral part of you

a state of utter clarity growing and expanding

into every aspect of your life

enabling all parts of who you are to be enriched

being surprised at the changes in yourself

and your ability to engage fully with each moment of your life deliberately thinking and planning at times

then putting the thoughts away

folding them up and engaging with whats around you

and your unconscious knows how to

make all the necessary adjustments for that to become a reality for you more and more

in the days and weeks ahead

nnnPauseAnd you can spend a few moments now

engaging with your present experience the position of your arms and legs

the sound of these words

the rate of your breathing

and the internal space and silence within you

nnPauseAnd then whenever youre ready

you can just return to waking consciousness feeling refreshed and alert thats it

coming all the way back now and then opening your eyes.


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