Mind Health Secrets

A pool of fresh water is special. It's special as it’s a bit like our consciousness. If you try hard you may be able to see really little waves or ripples in the water. They’re really slight. The surface of the water is like the surface of your consciousness. The part that you're cognizant of.

When it ripples – when it's interacting with the world around you it’s obvious and you’ll get ripples. The surface ripples are what you're commonly aware of. When you think, hear, speak, cry out, engage in something physical or stressful the waves are produced.
With meditation that all stops. Your brain may be totally still, unmoving. It’s really possible. When the surface of the brain quiets and becomes still we begin to see and feel what is underneath. We wouldn’t know there's anything much underneath our consciousness except what we may see from the surface. Release whatever expectations about what will occur as you meditate. Don’t think that you'll have some experience of nirvana...Heaven. Don't think that you'll have a void mind. Don't think that you'll stop thought today. Don't think anything. If you're attached in anyhow to the thought that you're going to "acquire" something from sitting now, let it go. If you're concerned about getting something each time or whatever time you meditate you'll be frustrated. If you're frustrated you'll not continue. Read more by downloading this ebook!

This pool is just like that. You are able to see into the water perhaps a foot or at the most a 3 feet deep. If you stumbled on this pool while walking through the woods you may guess it was about 6+ feet deep. A different way your consciousness is like to this pool is because there's more to it than you may think.
If you're studying your own consciousness without meditation you are able to see that you've a waking state, a sleeping state, and perhaps daydream states and dreaming states while you rest. That’s about all we understand about ourselves on first inspection.
This pool, like your brain has a different dimension to it that you don’t see.
Your consciousness is deep. Truly deep. It may make this hole in the ground with water appear like a pothole it’s so deep and filled up with things to expose.
Meditation is a procedure of discovery. It’s like you’re exploring something that has never been seen previously. Really, it hasn’t. It’s you. It’s all that is below your consciousness. A few individuals believe that below our surface consciousness is a universal consciousness.
I can’t concur or take issue with that, but it’s an intriguing way to view things. Individuals that meditate in a simple way by centering on the breath till the brain stops and then simply experiencing a non-moving brain tend to have like experiences but they're likely never the same, they're singular to the individual. Nonetheless, they’re similar enough
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that when we share them with one another – we may commonly identify similar feelings and state we’ve experienced that as well. I’ve never met anybody that shared all of the experiences I have had and nor have I met 2 individuals that explained different levels or additional experiences in the precise same way. We all see the experience differently at any rate.
You’ll experience wondrous things if you happen to be a ‘natural’ and speedily progress through calming the mind and having it stop. When it stops the most astonishing things occur.
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Chapter 2:Chapter 2:Chapter 2:
How To Begin
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SynopsisSynopsis
Release whatever expectations about what will occur as you meditate. Don’t think that you'll have some experience of nirvana...Heaven. Don't think that you'll have a void mind. Don't think that you'll stop thought today. Don't think anything. If you're attached in anyhow to the thought that you're going to "acquire" something from sitting now, let it go. If you're concerned about getting something each time or whatever time you meditate you'll be frustrated. If you're frustrated you'll not continue.
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Get Ready
Discover a place that's quiet. A place where you can't hear a television or music or dogs barking or individuals talking or autos driving by is best. This may be really hard for you.
You might need to go someplace to discover a place to meditate. You might need to discover a meditation group listed in your local newspaper that meets in a quiet place on a regular basis.
Discovering a quiet place is really important as many distractions may prove too much to manage and you might stop meditation as soon as you begin.
You'll need a place that has a pleasant temperature - not too hot