Thread: How to ignore random thoughts while WILDing?

Mantras don't seem to work for me, but hey everyone's different. I have an excellent exercise to do regularly for this sort of thing. While fully conscious, go into a noisy environment and just blank out. Stare at something and try not to think. This task is much harder than it sounds. Do it with your eyes opened, then closed. If you hear a sound, fight off the vocalized mental words of question that will soon follow.

For example you hear a ruckus. Instantly, your mind begins to race with questions..."what was that? was it a car? I wonder what kind of car?" Mostly the seemingly uncontrollable ADD string of thoughts only happens during meditation or trance/hypnagogia. But that's how it happens. Before you know it, you keep adding on thoughts about the previous thought, that you eventually forgot what caused you to start thinking so much, and then you click out, or experience almost a physical "whoosh" where you quite literally snap back into the present moment of reality.

So practice meditating in a noisy environment. Eventually, mental questions like, "I wonder who just started the lawn mower" will become, "I wonder who just st-??????"

to, "I wonder who ??????"

"I wond-?????"

"I ?????"

"???????????"

You see it takes building up the stamina like with everything else. It's a process, and it depends on how much you are willing to work on it. Just remember that your objective is to not let thoughts build up, or even occur at all. The more blank your mind is, the easier of a time you will have with WILD.


On a side note, Snooze, what part of Finland are you from? A good friend of mine just moved to Helsinki