Thread: Meditation

Well the purpose of focusing on the breath is to heighten awareness. You're focusing your mind, getting it to focus on something very simple. When we do this, we see how distracted our minds are - it begins to bubble with all kinds of extraneous thoughts and feelings. This, too, is an awareness practice. We become aware of just how chattery our mind is.

De-stressing is a side-effect of this process but is not the goal.

Chatty is not the word. Even to this day at times my mind runs away with me. I learned to tell it stop every time it would wander. I found a good exercise is to picture me at a starting point and follow it down to the end. I wanted to also add ,meditation is wonderful to calm the mind and help you sleep. If I am restless I do my calm the mind meditation. I usually fall asleep within fifteen minutes.

I find awareness watching awareness is helpful in quieting the mind- instead of watching thoughts or trying to still the mind, go into the place beyond thoughts, where do they come from? same thing with breath- instead of watching breath go to the origin of breath- where does it come from?

Originally Posted by Johanna

I find awareness watching awareness is helpful in quieting the mind- instead of watching thoughts or trying to still the mind, go into the place beyond thoughts, where do they come from? same thing with breath- instead of watching breath go to the origin of breath- where does it come from?

Makes a lot of sense.

I don't suffer from migraines but can sympathise with the pain you say that at times meditation has helped some what try a different positioning on a bed with pillows as props at the back this might relieve some of the pressure on the head and possibly under the knees to relieve the pressure to get comfortable don't focus on anything say allowed or to yourself
1,2,3, RELAX know that you will relax this last part can be used for getting to sleep 1,2,3, Sleep the phrase might be needed to say more than once


just try to relax breathing that feels comfortable for you

if you use the technique of inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth

continue, or the breathing technique of inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the nose do that as some people put the tongue against the roof of the mouth you might need to change

this positioning and the breathing technique is used in some astral traveling techniques

hope it helps

Normally when I meditate, I use it to empower myself (chakra,aura work), and to quieten the mind. I also explore differet states of the mind.