My Current Meditation Practice

[SQAAD]

I have done tons of paying attention to my breath but after some time this got boring.

I'm a hardcore person. I need more stimulation. Not just feeling like i took a bunch of xanax..lol.

I tried Leo's technique where you just watch your hand. Mind was like: "What's this? This is weird. This is a waste of time. Stop doing it".

But i kept going because i was getting something from it. Can't really explain what.

This eventually progressed to where i just look at a specific location in the center of my left hand. And sit there for as long as i can.

It's a Concentration exercise. What i find fascinating with this technique is that when my Mind focuses hard, i get a nice  steady, kinda exhilarating feeling of Satisfaction. (Not a shallow, short-lived, cheap dopamine hit).

This meditation technique has become the most important thing in my life.

Goal is to be able to concentrate for 2 hours at a time but this is a challenge, unless someone else feeds you, and etc.

Results so far (after 4 months of continuous practice) is that i can stare at something a lot longer than before. Feel more happy, content and Still. And my mind is sharper and more able to discern and cut through sh!t. Also if someone on the street looks me funny, i just stare at him, i know he won't be able to match my intensity. Lol.

If you want a visual representation of the results , check the young man with the dark beard in this video. He is in a very good state of Consciousness.

I don't understand why Leo says there is no best state of Consciousness. Isn't a composed calm state better than a Suicidal one??

 

Edited April 24 by SQAAD

[Sugarcoat]

Awesome work keep it up

Maybe Leo says there is no best state of consciousness because there are an infinite number of them. I don’t know that but I think he has said so

[kavaris]

6 hours ago, SQAAD said:

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Goal is to be able to concentrate for 2 hours at a time but this is a challenge, unless someone else feeds you, and etc.

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I don't understand why Leo says there is no best state of Consciousness. Isn't a composed calm state better than a Suicidal one??

 

I appreciate that you use very thoughtful words, like *concentration*, etc. in describing meditation, as theres not enough pragmatic and practical explanations about ppls meditation exp out there. i havent watched your videos yet. meditation i know may seem a bit unusual and mysterious at first, and there are difficulties, and questions, about it. its like theres geometrically incompatible ends that have trouble bringing meditation into the pic, fusing it w/ half of them, and eventually it does. like, you wont have any questions really cause its sortve a self generating mechanisms goin on there, eventually speaking

With that said, i see ppl looking at others as a kindve guide, but the final form is you, and so its like, the best ideas are gonna come from you within you.

~As far as best states of consciousness, first we'd have to identify states of consciousness, since we are assuming that there is this *good state of consciousness* which is in a class of consciousness states,that which we can identify. So i ask to ask yourself what those are first, obviously, otherwise it doesnt make sense to ask that question, unless you mean something else.

Edited April 24 by kavaris

[SQAAD]

@kavaris

52 minutes ago, kavaris said:

I appreciate that you use very thoughtful words, like *concentration*, etc. in describing meditation, as theres not enough pragmatic and practical explanations about ppls meditation exp out there. i havent watched your videos yet. meditation i know may seem a bit unusual and mysterious at first, and there are difficulties, and questions, about it. its like theres geometrically incompatible ends that have trouble bringing meditation into the pic, fusing it w/ half of them, and eventually it does. like, you wont have any questions really cause its sortve a self generating mechanisms goin on there, eventually speaking

With that said, i see ppl looking at others as a kindve guide, but the final form is you, and so its like, the best ideas are gonna come from you within you.

~As far as best states of consciousness, first we'd have to identify states of consciousness, since we are assuming that there is this *good state of consciousness* which is in a class of consciousness states,that which we can identify. So i ask to ask yourself what those are first, obviously, otherwise it doesnt make sense to ask that question, unless you mean something else.

Thank you!

Some states are better than others. I don't think than anyone would prefer a hysterical, suicidal state vs a calm, composed one.

Meditation is Mind Training. It's like Lifting Weights for your Brain. That's how i view it. There is nothing woo-woo about this. 

 

 

Edited April 24 by SQAAD

[SQAAD]

@Sugarcoat

41 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

Awesome work keep it up

Maybe Leo says there is no best state of consciousness because there are an infinite number of them. I don’t know that but I think he has said so

Thank you! Even if there are infinite, some states are better than others.

[SQAAD]

@Applegarden8 @Applegarden8

48 minutes ago, Applegarden8 said:

This is a similar technique to detach from your body and practice a siddhi by putting awareness on the body. Have done it. It's OK.

 

What siddhi? I think the guy on the thumbnail of the video is a scammer-master manipulator.

[samijiben]

Either there are infinite states of consciousness.... Or only ONE!

Pick your Poison

[Sugarcoat]

3 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

@Sugarcoat

Thank you! Even if there are infinite, some states are better than others.

Yea i agree! It’s like a spectrum of degrees 

[SQAAD]

@samijiben

10 minutes ago, samijiben said:

Either there are infinite states of consciousness.... Or only ONE!

Pick your Poison

One ice-cream. But infinite flavors.