Topics/Categories: Meditation, Self-Hypnosis, Power of the Mind, Creativity, Stress Relief
Something that touched me: The power of the subconscious mind intrigues me. I recently read that up until the age of 7 or so, everything we learn goes directly into our subconscious mind. In order to access this information to change, alter or truly perceive our experience of life, we must utilize some form of hypnosis. Some of us may feel that we can't be hypnotized (remember all of those great circus acts where people act like Madonna in front of 100 laughing people?) but this wonderful post on "What Does Self-Hypnosis Feel Like?" challenges that inner critic by giving common trance like experiences.
Review: Some of us may have formal meditation practices, while others may not. Having a small child running around the house is not always conducive to a meditative state for me, so I look to more mundane ways of connecting with myself and spirit--while walking, while cooking dinner, while driving (hey, I'm a good driver!) just about any way and time I can use. I connected with this site's recognition that meditation is not always about sitting/standing still.
“Meditation was probably discovered independently by hunters, singers, dancers, drummers, lovers and hermits, each in their own way. People tend to encounter meditative states whenever they throw themselves with total intensity into life’s callings.”—Lorin Roche
There are some excellent posts on meditation and self-hypnosis techniques, some as simple as the Inner Smile. Martha, the author, posts about 2-3 times per month. If you are looking for an inspirational way to start incorporating meditation into your life, this site can point you in the right direction. Simple, clear and unassuming, you'll enjoy refreshing your knowledge or trying new things. Thank you Martha for your site!
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7 comments:
Hi Darcy -
Visiting your blog today was like getting two unexpected gifts.
First, was the very kind review you wrote about my blog.Thank you so much! I'm delighted that you like it.
And second, was the fact that it led me to *your* blog, which was like finding buried treasure. Thanks for sharing some of the wonderful blogs you've discovered here in cyberspace. Your descriptions give me such a good sense of what I might find there.
Regarding what you had to say about my blog, I was glad that you chose to mention some of the posts aimed at helping people understand that self-hypnosis and meditation aren't as scary or fraught with rules as we might think. If I can help dispel some of the misconceptions enough to make it possible for people to experience the wonders of their own minds, anytime and anywhere, I'm happy.
Thanks again, Darcy. Come visit again anytime. I'll be checking in here, for sure.
Many thanks for visiting! I'll be keeping an eye out on your blog as well. That's a wonderful goal--dispelling misconceptions to make it possible for people to experience the wonders of their own minds--I hope more people discover your very encouraging site!
Darcy
Hypnosis IS powerful
Self-Hypnosis,
Thanks for the visit! I absolutely agree with you too!
Darcy
Darcy, I am curious if you have had a chance to check out Diamond Alignment's 6-minute stress relief meditation presentation. What are your thoughts?
There's quite a good free Guided Meditation here:
http://www.manifestdestinystore.com
Use these reminders to create the foundation for a contmplation or meditation practice that will bear fruit.
Excerpts from Je Gampopa’s,
A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path.
Namo Guru. I pay homage and go for refuge.
These are a precious garland of the supreme path, instructions that are extremely valuable to those fortunate ones who directly or indirectly venerate me.
~This pure human body with its freedom and resources, so difficult to possess, is lost in ordinary physical death without Dharma.
~ It is necessary to select instructions of one’s guru unmistakenly, through understanding the difference between instructions that are appropriate and inappropriate.
~ It is necessary that, by being without attachment and craving, one avoid giving one’s nose rope to others.
~ Rely upon worthy disciples who have faith and respect.
~ Abandon retinue and negative companions that harm your mind and experience.
~ Abandon careless conduct that causes others to lose faith.
~ Since appearances are the radiance of the mind, do not abandon them.
~ Since desirable things are the water and manure of experience and realization, do not abandon them.
~ Since all the pleasure and suffering of sentient beings arises from karma, know the results of actions to be unfailing.
~ Relying upon a holy guru, abandon arrogance; practice in accordance with his or her instructions.
~ If excitement predominates, emphasize the subduing of awareness.
~ Contemplating death and impermanence, exhort yourself to cultivate virtue.
~ If you have little faith and much knowledge, that is the deviation of becoming a talker.
~ If your mind is untrained in method—great compassion—that is the deviation into the path of the lesser vehicle.
~ There is confusion between the emptiness that is the nature of all knowables and the emptiness that is intellectually posited.
~ To combine the hearing, reflection, and meditation aspects of Dharma is unmistaken.
~ To have good experience and realization and no arrogance or vanity is unmistaken.
~To be learned in instruction and have no experience is like a treasury of riches to which there is no key, and is useless.
~ To abide in solitude and accomplish greatness in this life is a hidden evil of practitioners.
~ To present instructions to others while one’s own mind is contrary to Dharma is a hidden evil of practitioners.
~ A view that realizes the nature of all knowables s indispensable.
~ It is a mark of a holy person to examine any action with alertness and to perform it with alert mindfulness.
~ Since, having entered the gate of Dharma through faith, if you do not conduct yourself in accordance with Dharma it will cause lower migrations, there is no benefit.
~ Disregarding through pride one’s holy guru and the Victor’s teaching is like a rash ruler ignoring his council, and is accomplishing one’s own disaster.
~ To abandon activities of distraction and cultivate hearing, reflection, and mediation, is a great kindness to oneself.
~ Realizing that the viewed, the viewer and the realization are indivisible is the perfect view for one of the highest capacity.
~ Not searching out the instructions of the siddha’s oral lineage but earnestly emphasizing pointless intellectual Dharma is extremely bewildered.
~ Not to reflect upon the meaning of Dharma while living alone, but to teach Dharma amidst an extensive retinue, is extremely bewildered.
~ In the middle stage, undistracted meditation is necessary, like the intense feelings of a mother whose only child has died.
~ If suffering is recognized to be siddhi, searching for pleasure is unnecessary.
~ This vehicle of the essential meaning is superior to the paths of all other vehicles.
~ If an individual who has attained freedom of mind abandons desirable things, it is excellent. If he or she partakes of them, it is also excellent.
~ When a bad person’s mind turns to genuine Dharma and he or she becomes a holy person respected by everyone, this is a quality of genuine Dharma.
~ Since in the path there is nothing to be traversed and no one traversing it, path is merely a name.
~ Since in effortless conduct free from action there are no elaborations of acceptance and rejection, it is spontaneously present as great bliss.
These concepts when practiced during contemplative meditation, and fully realized will directly lead to self-realization. The lineage of such practitioners is great, stretching from The Buddha Shakyamuni himself, and continuing through many accomplished masters of India and Tibet. We have been blessed to have received these transmissions in the West since the 1960’s.
As you are fortunate enough to be reading this excerpt of ‘The Precious Garland’, you have already obtained great merit, and any practice of the above contemplations will generate many blessings for all sentient beings in the ten directions and the six realms.
Transcribed by one known as Niall Tenzin Gyrume, on the 164th day of the year of the Earth Rat in the New World.
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