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08-12-2011, 10:50 PM
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There are times when I meditate I am unable to ap. You just have to keep persevering with it. You can try other techniques but that does not work all the time as well. You have to keep persevering with it. When you are in the meditative state any technique will work. The hard part is to get into the meditative state. The next step is very easy.
Occasionally I am not in a meditative state and I am awake and I can ap but that is very unusual. Mostly it does not happen.
I wish I had a chance to ap last night but my daughter was making very loud noises and I could not relax properly. I gave up. I just thought I would add that in. Tonight I am going out to dinner. I hope I will try to ap when I get home and not talk myself out of it.
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11-12-2011, 09:11 PM
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I often get uncomfortable and give up. One of the things that's the worst for me is a restless feeling, normally would make me toss and turn, or move my limbs around.
Babies get it too, it means the body is overtired. You know your baby is overtired if they jerk out, and arch their back.
Well, so normally I'd give up, but I read in a Robert Bruce book, that all you need to do is relax, and the feelings of wanting to turn over or move will go away.
So, I tried this, and managed to get very comfortable - on my back even!
Previously, I was very restless and uncomfortable.
I just wanted to pass that on, to anyone who's stuggling with being uncomfortable. Try relaxing further.
How I relaxed, is I said to myself I am open, completely open to anything that happens to me, anything is ok.
This worked (at the time, not sure if it will again) ... the reason I tense is because I fear the unexpected - so I took that reason for tensing away, and I could relax very easily.
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11-12-2011, 11:07 PM
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Thanks for that Avilucis. After reading about you I realise that is my problem too. I cannot seem to relax. I may lie there without moving for a while but I am not relaxed and I want to turn over. I will have to work on that.
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11-12-2011, 11:57 PM
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I am reading the same Robert Bruce thing Avilucis is. Something I was doing recently is the breathing technique. It's for relaxing and not for projecting really (well maybe it's kinda the same thing but) it relaxes me pretty well.
First you take one short breath then a little longer one, the tird a little longer until you count up to about 6 breaths and the 6th is the longest you can do, then let them grow shallow again. You can go to 12 if you want, whatever.
Maybe try that if anyone has a hard time relaxing.
You really have to focus so you relax the mind as well. Projecting really requires the body is asleep as well as the thinking paprt of the mind. You just want that subtle awareness to be active without having to think about it.
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12-12-2011, 12:26 AM
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Thanks for that Apakhana Akshobhya. I am going to do the slow breathing and I will do the yoga stretches as well. That should work.
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12-12-2011, 08:47 PM
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It's important to realize that most of our tension and inability to relax comes from what's going on in our mind, not just the body.
To relax your mind takes some self-awareness...
paying attention to what you're feeling without thinking about it much
accepting and allowing whatever you feel
and letting go.
Conscious breathing with your feelings helps a lot.
Xan
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07-05-2012, 01:11 AM
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bringing this up...
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Go within, beloveds. Go deep within to the Heart of your Being.
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07-05-2012, 06:06 AM
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Thanks Xan for bringing it up. It is extremely important to be able to relax when you want to ap. Also it is a reminder for me to do what Apakhana Akshobhya suggested and that is to do short and long breaths. I will use the relaxing CD if that does not work after the breathing. I will keep persevering with the breathing. That sounds great. Your advice is good as well, of course.
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18-03-2013, 04:17 AM
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This also needs to be brought up.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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