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Lesson #1: Sensory Awareness Meditation |
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Last edited by Daredevilpwn; 10-03-2012 at 02:49 AM.
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Last edited by Daredevilpwn; 10-05-2012 at 02:34 AM.
Welcome to the class. You are sure correct that mmost people do not know how they actually feel at any given point in time. The wandering mind is a worthy foe, and other lessons deal with it. |
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Version 1: Listening to a Noisy World. |
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I recommend that most students take no less than a year to get through all the stuff I will end up teaching here. I have more lessons to post, but none of the students have moved all the way through the lessons already posted. That is normal. This stuff is a huge stretch from the normal way people have learned to feel and live. You are doing great, and each part of each lesson may take from days to months. |
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Hey Sivason. Just wanted to be honest with ya but I've been slacking off a bit. But don't worry I haven't quit. I am resuming my practices now. I am going to be focusing on the visualization stuff but still do some of the basic skills since that is necessary to do the more advanced stuff in the course. Oh and I have a question for you too. In Robert Wagonners book Gateway to the innerself the author claims it is possible to heal yourself physically through the use of lucid dreams. He says the the rate of healing rapidly increases to produce very noticeable effects. I am not saying this is impossible, I am a very open minded guy but he seems like he is exaggerating. So I am wondering have you ever healed a physical injury through dreams? I thought the only way to heal ones physical body besides surgery and whatnot is to fix up the etheric body since that is (almost) exact duplicate of the physical body and then the astral body is a smaller copy since it doesn't have the internal organs and all that. |
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I am not sure aboout using lucid dreams to heal, but healing powers work better in an advanced state of yogic awareness. If I need to heal myself I can get into a "dream like" state to enhance my visualization. Does it work? Well, not many of the yogic powers one can gain are profound like you may see in a movie. I have extreamly good health, and have only had a single cold in about ten years, due to self healing using yogic knowledge. I did however get a hernia and despite my best efforts it ended up needing surgery. As far as healing others, you can enter a deep yogic state and still be able to move and interacct with the world eventually. I have never seen clear evidence of healingothers, that seemed more than slight. I have had luck with curing headaches aand minor infections, but nothing very convincing. |
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While doing some visualization, I noticed that I can faintly see the outline of my hands. I know this is legit because I covered my eyes completely with my left arm so no light is getting through. I then put my hand in front of my face and slowly move it around. I can see a shadowy outline of my hand matching my physical movement despite the fact my eyes are completely covered! Perhaps I can use this as a visualization exercise. This seems like some third eye stuff going on here or from a more scientific stand point I am simply tricking my mind into producing some sort of image of my hand. Either way I think I can use this for visualization practice. |
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Thanksgiving break is coming soon. Will be perfect time to get some good sensory awareness and visualization practice in. Oh and Sivason. What got you into dream yoga? |
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Been trying to pay attention to my senses throughout the day. I can tell you that there was a small improvement in my dream state. Touch taste and smell are pretty non existent in my non lucids but today I had a dream where I 'felt' the wind blowing against me. So thats pretty cool. I take that as a sign of progress. |
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I do my hearing meditation before I go to bed. I like to listen to a binaural beat and pay attention to the subtle changes as it goes along. Also I can trick my mind into thinking the sound has changed when it didn't. I don't know how to explain it. It's sorta like listening to something on repeat over and over for example "Not the bees!" lets say that "Not the bees!" kept repeating over and over. If you try you can change what it sounds like. So instead of "Not the bees!" you hear "Not the geese!" It's kinda like that with the binaural beat, when it remains constant I can kinda trick myself into thinking it is getting louder when it isn't. |
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That is why visualization is in the intermediate stuff. It is definately harder to learn. You tricking your brain with the sound is kind of like the visualization stuff. It is the dream center of the brain this stuff helps develop, so changing the sounds is great practice. |
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You do sound like one of them old souls. By old I don't mean age since souls don't age, by old I simply mean you've obtained a lot of wisdom. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and giving us a wonderful opportunity to expand our consciousness. |
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Yesterday as I meditated with the sound of rain in the background I had faint auditory hallucinations. Besides the sound of rain I could faintly hear the sound of someone laughing and on my right ear I could hear a faint music playing. To make sure that the author of the video didn't put that there for the heck of it I replayed it and listened intently. I heard nothing so I conclude it was just auditory hallucinations. Next time I'll try to manipulate them. |
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It sounds like you have already some natural energy sense, which will help you alot. Take a look at the lesson about simulating energy flow. You should be good at it. At first, if you are truely causing a flow of energy many people can experience discomfort. It can even cause a degree of burning type pain. This is because the 'channals' along which the energy flows have shrunk and atrophied. Gently working up to more intense energy use, is like stretching and a light workout routine to avoiid the pain of jumping straight into athletics that are beyond your current level. So, it is a great thing that you can do this. It sounds like a real thing that happens in yoga often. The discomfort or over stimulation goes away as you do it more. |
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I've been making an effort, not to just do meditation but also do it in waking life. I've been trying to pay attention to the obvious senses as I go about my day. As a consequence I had a very vivid dream with a lot of sensory perception, mostly touch. And I am sure I will have more in the future. I was doing this during thanksgiving break but when school resumed after a few days I can feel it taking its tool on me. So I am going to take take a day off from doing that particular activity. But doing the meditation while relaxed instead of doing my every day activities should be fine for me. Haven't done energy simulation yet but I do plan too on the weekend. Hopefully this self induced tingling sensation really is energy. |
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Yep. I am pretty sure it is. |
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After doing this meditation for awhile I noticed something. First, it seems that I try to 'see' something when the goal of my practice is to either hear or feel. I try to look in the direction the stimulus is coming from like I am trying to see it. It seems to me that I (and most likely others) tend to confirm what our other senses tell us by trying to see what is causing a particular noise or sensation. |
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The sense of vision is very over used by people. We have stopped paying attention to much else. Humans have a nice visual ability with some fine detail, but we forget we have other powerful senses. Think about this. If you close your eyes and smell your food, does the small seem more intense, how about the taste. With me it does. learning to focus on other sense builds awareness, and soon you can have the increased awareness and also take in the visual field. that is why meditation begins with eyes closed. Later you should be able to do all the basic stuff and practice diffuse vision at the same time. Later. For now just have fun and explore, as you have been. Good luck, I think you are doing great. |
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I am probably trying to do to many things at once. Doing the meditation, doing the energy training. I feel like I am spreading myself to thin. I should just focus on one skill at a time and get a good grasp on it before even thinking about moving on. Anyway I am going to dedicate 2 weeks on just visualization for about an hour or so a day. Visualization, out of all the skills so far is important to me right now. Once 2 weeks are over, I'll post back with my results. Visualization training imo is just another form of sensory awareness meditation except with sight, but not the physical eyes but your minds eye instead so i'm killing two birds with one stone anyway. Cya in 2 weeks, provided that my internet doesn't get turned off again. |
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That is a great idea. I really assumed the fastest students would need at least a year. It is like studting martial arts, it can not be rushed, and takes devotion over the long haul. |
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Ok so its been two weeks. First I sit back and relax and focus on the void which eventually starts to get filled with some colors. I find that if I get distracted by thoughts they colors become less apparent but when I focus they become more active. So I guess they are maintained by observation and focus. Controlling them is still difficult. I don't try to make colors prevalent but conjure up other images like letters of an alphabet and numbers. I try many things like imagining I am drawing the letter and/or number and after a couple of tries the imagined letter/number appears in the void. So how can I explain the difference between what I am imagining and what I 'see'. I think that in order to actually 'see' something in the void of your vision it first needs to have an imaginary blueprint that you don't really see in the void. This is confusing honestly. There is the type of visualization that you actually see such as the color and stuff you see when you close your eyes and concentrate. Then there is this daydreaming type visualization that isn't visible inside the void but more out of the range of the minds eye. I am sure you know what I'm talking about so back to my results. |
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You are doing great. The difference is hard to explain, but it sounds like you are getting it. This is a trainable skill, but takes time. I have been at it for 20 years or so. I can now quickly form all basic shapes and change the colors. In less than 2 seconds I can summon a somewhat complex image like a star of David with a blue triangle pointing up, and a red one crossing it. (Testing,,,,) yep, less than 2 seconds and very clear, bright colors... So keep it up for the rest of your life. It is a fun skill in itself, but the power it gives you over lucid dreams is phenominal. |
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Last edited by Sivason; 01-09-2013 at 06:06 PM.
It's been a bit more than two weeks but I have been practicing. I have discovered that saying outloud or internally of what the colors are doing helps me concentrate and also improve the intensity of the colors a little bit. I still have little to no control of the colors. How exactly do you control them? All I can do is visualize with my minds eye but as far as the actual colors I see, I have little to no idea how to manipulate them. Although i do manage to pull small feats like making a letter or number appear. Will definitely keep on practicing |
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Last edited by Daredevilpwn; 01-29-2013 at 12:52 PM.
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