| Badger1777 |
16-09-2014 09:25 PM |
What Secret said above.
It always baffles me when people meditate then come on here to ask how they can meditate without experiencing a thing they don't want to experience. The answer is, don't meditate.
Meditation isn't magic. It is just about unlocking your mind. If you have a room in your house that is horrendously untidy and contains things you don't want, you have two choices. You can either lock the door to that room and never go in there, or you can open that door and deal with whatever you see, and sort it bit by bit until it is how you want it.
Sometimes when I have things eating away at me, I meditate as a means of 1) figuring out what it is and 2) Confronting it and dealing with it. During meditation we attach experiences and objects to otherwise intangible phantoms. You can't can't fight something you can't see or feel or touch, so meditation gives things form. You fear hell and damnation. That's quite intangible, but when you meditate, you give it form. Once it has form you can see, hear and feel it. You can then go and look at it and learn about it, "know your enemy", and find its weakness, safe in the knowledge that at any point, you can come straight back out of their just by moving any part of your physical body. So you can go in and out as many times as you need, observing and learning, until you are ready to start dismantling that hostile notion.
Or, as I said earlier, you could simply not meditate. Leave it locked up inside, where the idea will still eat away at you, except you'll have less control.
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