How to Meditate

Trying to withdraw from your five senses:
You are sitting ready, first just relax for a couple of minutes, then start, first intensifying the use of each sense then shut if off suddenly. Do this with each sense one at a time starting with the most used, usually sight. Look around the room noticing as many details as possible, fill up your sight. Then close your eyes and keep them closed as you listen to the soundscape. Hear as many details as possible then stop listening and try to ignore all sound. Now just use your sense of touch. Feel as much as you can without getting up or doing anything. Focus only on this sensation, how does the chair feel, how does your skin feel against your clothes, how do you feel inside, etc. Then try not to feel anything, just smell if you can for a moment, then focus only on taste if you can taste anything at the time, even just the taste of your own mouth if it has one. Doing this gets you out of the external world of the five senses so you can look inward and helps to keep the sense from disturbing you with bits of external information. Now look around the room with your eyes closed seeing with the same vision you see your dreams with. Just imagine you're looking around the room seeing it in your mind's eye, see as many details as you can, then shut it off. This last one does two things; it exercises your visulation ability, which makes life's tasks easier. It also helps ensure you won't be overly disturbed by your own imagination or thinking processes. Now you start to meditate. To get into the Alpha, try to feel and encourage that nice relaxed feeling you get when you're falling asleep, but don't go all the way to sleep. Remember this gets easier with practice till you can do it at will. Stay like this for a few minutes trying not to think without trying not to


Go deep into your self and bring everything out. Be like an objective analyst observing a specimen possibly imagine how your situation would appear to someone else. The problems will come up on their own. In order, starting with the worst. You will work on them one at a time for as long as each one takes, days, months or years. Use all of your intelligence on it, list all of your ideas for it's resolution, come up with suggestions of things that might help. Give your higher self something to work with. Once you have exhausted your mortal and material thoughts on it your super human thoughts can start.. You can be emotionally attached to a problem, be ready to give it up completely.
If you count out loud when counting something it will be easier for the mind to keep track. Or if you want to wake up at a certain time you can tap you head on the pillow that many times and it will be more impressed on the memory than if nothing physical corresponded with the memory placement. Now in that same way, use your visualization to see yourself getting rid of the problem in a physical way. Example; imagine that you put the problem in a box and throw it off a cliff or into a furnace. Or imagine that you somehow got it into a computer and erased it. Use your creativity. Also, just doing this every day will impress on your lower self that something is really happening, and you're serious about this.
Now you pray to God knowing that you have tried and you believe your will is the same as God's will at least on this one subject. It doesn't have to be the God of church or any particular idea, just have faith that help will come from some kind of higher power.
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CONDITIONING OF MIND FOR MEDITATION

HOW TO CONTROL THOUGHTS
Presence of Mind: Start practising to bring your mind present in all objects and actions that you look and do. Constantly do observe each of your thought and action. Each simple action you do in every second can be remembered if you practise to keep your mind present there with the action. This practice not only makes your action perfect but also helps you to remember what you did, when u did and where u did. This constant practice makes your mind concentrate on each object and action and thereby your thought remains always one at a time.. Then you are constantly concentrating. Means you can control your mind whenever you want to meditate on any one thought of action and that thought will be the strongest and the most perfect result giving one for you. Slowly you can become thoughtless and in a blissful state of tranquility. Though it is very easy to express but very difficult to practise. Not an impossible one also.