I have a plan to start meditating!!

[mandy2583]

Ok so I think I have developed a plan to start meditating well its more like relaxing than meditating. Plan: Relax Take 7 deep breaths Visualize sitting on a mountaintop watching the clouds pass by. Then see where this takes me??? Its sort of like a beginner start off than a plan. But will it help in anyway with lucid dreaming because I heard that meditaing helps increase awareness so will this work for awareness? Are there any things that I should change so it does?

[Seamuslee]

Hey. Well, I dont know if anyone else has this problem, but dont visualise yourself on the mountain- actually be on the mountain. i kinda phrased that oddly, but, what i mean is dont see yourself while your visualising(that has kept me from getting lucid for so long =() 1st person not 3rd person

[Godl!ke]

Seamuslee makes perfect sense. This is true. If you visualize yourself anywhere you wanted, you're doing it all wrong. This is what you're doing wrong : you are visualizing another guy that looks just like you enjoying the mountain top. What you want to really do is put yourself in that 1st person view, so it is really you that is enjoying that freshly winded mountain top. This does aid lucid dreaming if you take some time to visualize yourself in that 1st person view and role play how it is you want to become lucid. for example: Usually one would "visualize" himself becoming lucid within any imagined scenario etc..

[Happiness is a Warm Gun]

Ok so I think I have developed a plan to start meditating well its more like relaxing than meditating. Plan: Relax Take 7 deep breaths Visualize sitting on a mountaintop watching the clouds pass by. Then see where this takes me??? Its sort of like a beginner start off than a plan. But will it help in anyway with lucid dreaming because I heard that meditaing helps increase awareness so will this work for awareness? Are there any things that I should change so it does? The exercise you're describing won't be meditating. It's just daydreaming and free associating. Meditation is one of the hardest skills to learn, because it can't be demonstrated. Don't just emulate people you've seen meditating by sitting quietly and being calm, because you're not doing the same thing they are. Pick up some books on meditation, a great one for beginners is "How to Meditate" by Lawrence LeShan, and as you get more advanced you want to find a qualified teacher with a recorded, respectable lineage. Here's a basic exercise: Breath counting: Sit cross-legged, back straight, and concentrate on breathing naturally, either focusing on the breath as it passes your nostrils or on the rising and falling of your belly (inhale=rise, exhale=fall). Count each exhale, and start over at 1 when you reach 4. Restore your focus as soon as you realize you're thinking about something other than breathing naturally (which will happen all the time, especially in the beginning). Start with this exercise, and don't switch to another type of meditation until you've spent 20 minutes per day for at least two months practicing breath counting. This will strengthen your personality structures and force of will, enabling you to do more involved meditations.

[12g951ad]

wonder if buddhas lucid I mean they sit and think maybe there Enlightment really is lucid