Thread: Help developing a solid daily routine for DILDs

- I wouldn't say replace it, it's just in my opinion KingYoshi's ADA sounds very intense, a couple of things 1) as far as I know from experience and out of all the things I have read, it is said very often that you cannot achieve mindfulness through force. It's a very gentle part of the mind, concentration you can improve through force, mindfulness you only improve through being mindful. 2) I could be wrong but the way KingYoshi talks about ADA it really sounds very draining, even he suggests that you start with just 5-10 minutes a day, I think it's easier to meditate twice a day for 10 minutes instead and achieve the same thing through gentle effort rather than overloading your senses and possibly giving up.

- There's nothing wrong with doing WILD and DILD at the same time, lots of failed WILD attempts turn into DILDs

- Meditation helps with everything and it's not complicated; an extremely simplified version is you're just sitting there following your breath, when your mind wanders you notice this and you return to the breath. Noticing that your mind has wandered is mindfulness at work, every time you notice you have wandered you are in fact improving mindfulness and at the same time concentration. When you get up from meditation you do your best to not forget that calm, mindful state as you go about your day. Then there is just a list of problems you want to avoid while doing this, it's not difficult to learn, the rest you pick up during practice.

There are a lot of other meditations but we're trying to lucid dream not become the next Buddha, if you happen to reach enlightenment during your meditation practice think of it as a bonus. ;]

Hopefully serious meditation practitioners don't get too mad at me for saying that.


PS: I do recommend reading about breathing meditation thoroughly to understand it fully, but you can start off with one of the first three http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22 files here if you want to get straight into it.