Uhm... Newbie trying to meditate.

[Silence]

I've been trying to meditate... My mind wanders way to much.... Anyone want to share me their technique. Meditation is something new to me and I just want to try it so I want better instructions from people who meditate before bed then just people who meditate for buddha or something you know? Well anyways... Post what you do... Maybe give me some links Thankyou and those of you who read my posts my nightmares have stopped.

[Astral]

Well I'm a newbie to the forums and well meditation also. I've just read up on techniques and they say you can try to focus on noises in your head or on the third eye. But the thing about the noises is that it can sound like an insect if you focus on it, and you'd have to be in the silence. Best of luck with your meditating.

[Silence]

Well I'm a newbie to the forums and well meditation also. I've just read up on techniques and they say you can try to focus on noises in your head or on the third eye. But the thing about the noises is that it can sound like an insect if you focus on it, and you'd have to be in the silence. Best of luck with your meditating. Thankyou friend. I hope I can get this stuff down

[starzandstripes]

Quieting your mind is one of the hardest things for new people to accomplish when meditating. A great way to start is to meditate outside and focus on the sounds you hear all around you. Really try and focus on everything your hearing and try to fell things around you. You'll be potentially amazed at all the different things you hear and feel that you may be taking for granted as well as the heightened awareness you'll have. Another great thing to try is to focus on is when meditating to focus on one specific parts of your body and really try to experience them in a different awareness. I you get bored move onto another part of your body. These techniques if done properly will help you gain a mastery of focus which lead to better focus om quieting the mind. If you lose your focus, redirect yourself.

[zeepunkt]

If you are serious about it, i'd suggest you to have a look at the book "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Generally, buddhist meditation is not about meditating for the buddha. The goal of this meditation is seeing things as they really are, but at a much deeper level than it is possible in normal awareness. The method described in this book consists in recognizing the dreamlike nature of everyday reality. Being trained in this, it will be quite intuitive to recognize the dreamlike nature of your dreams. Besides this, the book offers a few visualisation techniques which may seem a bit esoteric. But they will actually help you become lucid.

[Silence]

Thankyou I'll try to find a copy at my library. If i can't then ill amazon it.

[ninja9578]

Here is my technique, works very very well. Your mind may wander for a few minutes, but then you go so deep into relaxation that you can't even count. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=58032

[CautiousSleeper]

A great book to check out would be A practical guide to lucid dreaming by Michael Raduga. It has a few chapters on meditation or direct forms of attaining lucidity. Hope this helps, it is available on thepiratebay.org.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

As a beginner you need to cultivate focus because you will find that you cannot focus your mind for more than a few seconds without becoming distracted. We have inherited the monkey mind. Try focusing on a candle flame in a dark room. Have the candle flame be about a foot or a foot and a half in front of you. When you get distracted and lose concentration don't get discouraged or frustrated, just gently bring your attention back to the flame. You can focus on your breathing just going in and out. Or you can try a mantra, preferably one that doesn't have any meaning attached to it that can distract you. Try something like OM NAMAH SHIVAIYA but anything will work. OM MANI PADME HUM. But pay attention to each letter, each sound and feel your lips and tongue moving when you chant it. Don't just do it automatically in the background while you think of other things. Do it like you are casting a spell, you know? Or you can get a gong or a buddhist bell or singing bowl and ring it and pay attention listening to the sound slowly fade into silence. This is a real good one because it leaves you concentrated in silence, real meditation. Listening to the sound of silence in your head that sounds similar to the ringing in your ears is a good one, but kind of hard at first. Pick the highest tone you can hear and concentrate on it. After a while that tone will fade out and be replaced with a higher one. Keep going for the highest tone without being distracted. The first time I did this one successfully I WILDed unintentionally. All these have concentration in common. All of these develop concentration and focus. Eventually you want to concentrate on every perception you have, without filtering it and interpreting them through your mind. No internal commentary. Then you are directly experiencing reality, rather than experiencing your interpretations of reality. One more point: meditating is like making music, or like dancing; there should be no goal in it. You do it out of enjoyment, not trying to make anything happen or get anywhere, but resting in the moment. When making music the goal is not to get to the end of the song. Same with dancing, there is no goal, it is an art of being here and now. If you become bored you know that you are distracted and are looking for a goal. When I was a child I was very curious about time, and the relation between my consciousness and the Universe. I discovered meditation by myself by analyzing the present moment, to see how long or short the actual moment of now is. That is a very good meditation, to just see how atomic the NOW moment is, and to actually dwell in the atomic moment as time flows through it without skipping ahead or lagging behind mentally. No matter what, the important thing is to be ALERT! Don't slip into a spaced out trance. Be ALERT yet relaxed.