31/05/2020
Are you struggling with your mind? Try this!
The Spiders Web!
If you already understand the benefits of meditation but never really tried it, then this method is excellent for understanding the mind, and how to separate yourself from the mind and remain in full awareness. This takes a lot of practice to arrive at the point of full awareness. Minimum of four times a week. Practiced twice a day for three months could be transformational. It not a question of if it works, or i can't do it, or my mind won't stop thinking. It's important to not allow self doubt or ego to get in the way.
How to do it.
Draw a circle in your minds eye, or middle eye. The size is not important. Draw it left to right, right to left. The line of the circle is your mind moving in both directions randomly but it is not thinking.
Within the circle is your awareness. This awareness is not bound by the mind, so therfore when in awareness the mind is passive, and we are completely aware of this.
Outside of the circle is the lines of a spider's web. Intricately joined together. Each line represents a thought. As one thought comes into the mind it moves out of the non thinking mind and into the web. This chatter will not stop until you bring yourself back into the awareness. As soon as you do this your mind will begin to think again. It will do this because it is conditioned in this way. It doesn't want to be quiet. So no sooner have you come back into awareness then its off again. Then again and so on. The thoughts you have will be random and some will seem important. You can learn to see the pathways with which your mind goes down. There may be 5 or 10 important things going on in your life and these will keep popping up. Once they are let go of, other thoughts come. It doesn't matter what these thoughts are, they are simply just thoughts. Once you begin to separate yourself from the mind and remain more in awareness you can gain much more control over your mind.
At first it is a struggle and you will probably want to give up. Don't be over ambitious with time. Be realistic. You haven't maybe meditated before, how is it possible for the mind to be able to do this when it hasn't done it before. It needs time, to understand and eventually not heard. You cannot force the mind to be quiet.
Try it early in the morning for say five minutes. Maybe also in the evening or just keep it to the morning. Its entirely up to you. As you are in control of your own thoughts and actions. Spend one minute to two minutes before you start with some deep breathing. When i mean deep, i mean breathing in the absolute maximum capacity of your lungs, and then emptying them completely. This in itself is not easy as it requires full concentration.
Good luck with it!
