MemberMy therapist was a mature Austrian lady with an accent..
(Very appropriate - I'd read all about Freud - the undisputed father of psychoanalysis.)
I'll jump very quickly to the meditational methods she suggested.
"David - I want you to hold an image, a favourite picture - can you do that?"
I didn't want to because that involved a thought process. I wanted freedom from thought - I have always thought too much!
"Okay - then can you imagine a loving purple light shining down on you?"
(She was a lovely if deeply religious lady, so I sussed out where her benevolent light came from, and I did not have her faith.)
'Oh dear? - can you just help me to find a state of peace, a place of safety?'
There are innumerable ways of approaching a meditative state, so allow nobody to tell you that your method is wrong.
I have to smile.
I had gone to a highly esteemed meditational guru, only to tell her what I didn't want, and exactly what I did want.
A good therapist knows that the client/patient usually has the seeds of their own healing within them.
She listened to me, believed in me, and we got there in the end.
In 'No thought" methods, "the practitioner is fully alert, aware, and in control of their faculties but does not experience any unwanted thought activity."
If you want to achieve a state of meditation you need to be committed to truly 'wanting' it.
It will not happen on an impersonal experimental level.
(ie - might as well give it a go etc...)
You need to be committed to the prize.
The prize for me is being able to reach what I think off as 'a place of safety.' A haven.
A place where my pulse rate is slow, my blood pressure is low, my breathing is so shallow as to be almost imperceptible, and I am virtually untroubled by my noise, and eventually unaware of it.
I imagine the words:
Deep - with each out breath, and -er, with every in breath.
Deep-er....deep-er....deep-er.....deep-er...etc.
If this is not working for you, I can suggest another method for reaching a hypnotic state.
With your mouth open ask your diaphragm to promote panting, just as expectant mother's are encouraged to do at anti-natal classes.
Pant rapidly for a few seconds.
When your oxygen level is full the panting will stop automatically.
You will now be breathing very shallowly if at all.
Do not listen to your sounds.
They are just there.
Drift off into a lovely meditational doze.
This takes practice for some people.
I came to it quite naturally.
My therapist said I soaked it up like a sponge.
I hope it can help you folks.
Dave x
Jazzer
(Very appropriate - I'd read all about Freud - the undisputed father of psychoanalysis.)
I'll jump very quickly to the meditational methods she suggested.
"David - I want you to hold an image, a favourite picture - can you do that?"
I didn't want to because that involved a thought process. I wanted freedom from thought - I have always thought too much!
"Okay - then can you imagine a loving purple light shining down on you?"
(She was a lovely if deeply religious lady, so I sussed out where her benevolent light came from, and I did not have her faith.)
'Oh dear? - can you just help me to find a state of peace, a place of safety?'
There are innumerable ways of approaching a meditative state, so allow nobody to tell you that your method is wrong.
I have to smile.
I had gone to a highly esteemed meditational guru, only to tell her what I didn't want, and exactly what I did want.
A good therapist knows that the client/patient usually has the seeds of their own healing within them.
She listened to me, believed in me, and we got there in the end.
In 'No thought" methods, "the practitioner is fully alert, aware, and in control of their faculties but does not experience any unwanted thought activity."
If you want to achieve a state of meditation you need to be committed to truly 'wanting' it.
It will not happen on an impersonal experimental level.
(ie - might as well give it a go etc...)
You need to be committed to the prize.
The prize for me is being able to reach what I think off as 'a place of safety.' A haven.
A place where my pulse rate is slow, my blood pressure is low, my breathing is so shallow as to be almost imperceptible, and I am virtually untroubled by my noise, and eventually unaware of it.
I imagine the words:
Deep - with each out breath, and -er, with every in breath.
Deep-er....deep-er....deep-er.....deep-er...etc.
If this is not working for you, I can suggest another method for reaching a hypnotic state.
With your mouth open ask your diaphragm to promote panting, just as expectant mother's are encouraged to do at anti-natal classes.
Pant rapidly for a few seconds.
When your oxygen level is full the panting will stop automatically.
You will now be breathing very shallowly if at all.
Do not listen to your sounds.
They are just there.
Drift off into a lovely meditational doze.
This takes practice for some people.
I came to it quite naturally.
My therapist said I soaked it up like a sponge.
I hope it can help you folks.
Dave x
Jazzer
