Meditation Technique #1 - When you have bad feelings
Close your eyes. Concentrate a little to regulate your ventilation. You need to inhale at the same rate you exhale, with a little break between the two.
Think about nothing other than yourself. You are in an egg. Everything outside you and the egg exists no more. The egg is your sanctuary, no one can reach you and it is floating in the void.
You are at the center of the egg, at the place where the yellow should be. Everything is white, and warmth. Your knees are under your breast and your arms surrounding your legs.
Now think about your bad feelings. Every bad feeling is purple. Think about your good feelings. Represent them as yellow. They are there, inside of you. You are mostly purple. Let them perspire through you. They are filling, one by one, the white part of the egg.
As time goes, the egg becomes more and more purple-ish. When it is all purple, you are filled with a little yellow circle.
You decide where this circle starts. It may be from your heart, your head, your groin. Concentrate on this circle. It is warmth and emaning a yellow aura. With every exhalation, the circle expands a bit, filling you from inside. It's filling, but doesn't get out of you. It is still emaning a warmth yellow aura that surrounds every part it fills. It takes time, but it is good.
It fills your head, your brain, your eyes and your mouth. It fills your breast, your lungs, your heart, your belly, your arms. It fills your hands, your groin, your genitals, your legs, your feet. Feel it fills every part, feel every part of yourself.
When every part of you is yellow, and you are emaning a yellow aura, you are in control of your body. Since you control the yellow circle, and you are now the yellow circle, your body makes one with your soul.
Just push a little bit outside with the yellow part of yourself now. Crack the egg, crack its covering. With every crack, a little part of the purple liquid contained inside the egg exhale it. It goes away into the void, disappearing. When there is no more covering, there is no more purple liquid, and you are free from the egg.
You can now open your eyes.
More explanation to come, or if you can think of some :P
When I say a sanctuary, I actually mean it. The egg represent your internal world, the place where you keep your secrets. No one can reach you there if you don't allow them, and it is important in this meditation trick, because every bad feelings start from that place. As well as good feelings, but you don't want to get rid of them, right?
There are things even secret to yourself. Your subconscious is really strong normally, so that's why I don't want to focus on what my bad feelings are, just to evacuate them.
Stanislavski (IIRC, maybe I'm wrong) did use yellow to represent concentration. It also means freedom and non-attachment, which is perfect. Purple is a calm color, instead of red. I took it to represent the bad feelings since they seem less important with this color than black. I couldn't take a better color (white represents purity, blue is too cold). I think green could fit, since it is often represented as freedom from negative attitude.
This is a meditation trick I made out of many things. You can either say I'm the author or not. I just find it very efficient and it's what matters. My circle starts from my forehead, the junction between my nose bone and the point between my eyes, since it seems more efficient there than elsewhere (I can concentrate more on it). I tried the belly, the heart, the feet (two circles), the groin and the back of my head. I tried the lungs too once, but it didn't fit.
When controling my respiration, I exhale everything, wait a second, then start inhaling. I count 4 seconds in my head, then waits 2 seconds, exhale 4 seconds and wait 2 seconds. I do this a lot of time, like 2-3 minutes, to be sure my heart follows the rythm and that I am more in control of my body. It seems easier after that to breathe with a regular rythm without concentrating.
I wasn't actually able to feel every part of me until a good time, so it may need practice. But it is important that you try to feel every muscle, every finger, every cell of your body. You'll feel more comfortable after. I did some mediation (trick to come, but I'll explain it now) just concentrating on a part, say my arms, and try to feel and contact everything inside of it. Fluids, cells, bones, everything. It's actually very psychological since you can't physically feel any cell, but it practices the symbiose and homogeneity of the body.
I sometimes just do the yellow circle part. It seems efficient enough to calm me when the feelings are not so strong and I need to solve them, not throw them away. You can skip it too, just do the purple part. It works.
I took bad feelings, but it could have been something else. I have another technique for worries and re-energize, and I found this one didn't fit for physical harm. Strong emotions like lost-love, death of a friend or greater stress need more efficient and active techniques, because the mind only can't get rid of them. You need movement and a good state. Maybe I'll come with something for it.
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Think about nothing other than yourself. You are in an egg. Everything outside you and the egg exists no more. The egg is your sanctuary, no one can reach you and it is floating in the void.
You are at the center of the egg, at the place where the yellow should be. Everything is white, and warmth. Your knees are under your breast and your arms surrounding your legs.
Now think about your bad feelings. Every bad feeling is purple. Think about your good feelings. Represent them as yellow. They are there, inside of you. You are mostly purple. Let them perspire through you. They are filling, one by one, the white part of the egg.
As time goes, the egg becomes more and more purple-ish. When it is all purple, you are filled with a little yellow circle.
You decide where this circle starts. It may be from your heart, your head, your groin. Concentrate on this circle. It is warmth and emaning a yellow aura. With every exhalation, the circle expands a bit, filling you from inside. It's filling, but doesn't get out of you. It is still emaning a warmth yellow aura that surrounds every part it fills. It takes time, but it is good.
It fills your head, your brain, your eyes and your mouth. It fills your breast, your lungs, your heart, your belly, your arms. It fills your hands, your groin, your genitals, your legs, your feet. Feel it fills every part, feel every part of yourself.
When every part of you is yellow, and you are emaning a yellow aura, you are in control of your body. Since you control the yellow circle, and you are now the yellow circle, your body makes one with your soul.
Just push a little bit outside with the yellow part of yourself now. Crack the egg, crack its covering. With every crack, a little part of the purple liquid contained inside the egg exhale it. It goes away into the void, disappearing. When there is no more covering, there is no more purple liquid, and you are free from the egg.
You can now open your eyes.
More explanation to come, or if you can think of some :P
When I say a sanctuary, I actually mean it. The egg represent your internal world, the place where you keep your secrets. No one can reach you there if you don't allow them, and it is important in this meditation trick, because every bad feelings start from that place. As well as good feelings, but you don't want to get rid of them, right?
There are things even secret to yourself. Your subconscious is really strong normally, so that's why I don't want to focus on what my bad feelings are, just to evacuate them.
Stanislavski (IIRC, maybe I'm wrong) did use yellow to represent concentration. It also means freedom and non-attachment, which is perfect. Purple is a calm color, instead of red. I took it to represent the bad feelings since they seem less important with this color than black. I couldn't take a better color (white represents purity, blue is too cold). I think green could fit, since it is often represented as freedom from negative attitude.
This is a meditation trick I made out of many things. You can either say I'm the author or not. I just find it very efficient and it's what matters. My circle starts from my forehead, the junction between my nose bone and the point between my eyes, since it seems more efficient there than elsewhere (I can concentrate more on it). I tried the belly, the heart, the feet (two circles), the groin and the back of my head. I tried the lungs too once, but it didn't fit.
When controling my respiration, I exhale everything, wait a second, then start inhaling. I count 4 seconds in my head, then waits 2 seconds, exhale 4 seconds and wait 2 seconds. I do this a lot of time, like 2-3 minutes, to be sure my heart follows the rythm and that I am more in control of my body. It seems easier after that to breathe with a regular rythm without concentrating.
I wasn't actually able to feel every part of me until a good time, so it may need practice. But it is important that you try to feel every muscle, every finger, every cell of your body. You'll feel more comfortable after. I did some mediation (trick to come, but I'll explain it now) just concentrating on a part, say my arms, and try to feel and contact everything inside of it. Fluids, cells, bones, everything. It's actually very psychological since you can't physically feel any cell, but it practices the symbiose and homogeneity of the body.
I sometimes just do the yellow circle part. It seems efficient enough to calm me when the feelings are not so strong and I need to solve them, not throw them away. You can skip it too, just do the purple part. It works.
I took bad feelings, but it could have been something else. I have another technique for worries and re-energize, and I found this one didn't fit for physical harm. Strong emotions like lost-love, death of a friend or greater stress need more efficient and active techniques, because the mind only can't get rid of them. You need movement and a good state. Maybe I'll come with something for it.
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