Meditation concentrative

If you do not know how to meditate Concentrate on any single object or sensation. 

The key to the whole method is the use of the projected castle. This ensures that the concentration of mental energies is focused on the etheric body, which has been built up by the involved visualization. This projected etheric vehicle, when withdrawn back into the physical at the end of the meditation practice, continues to work in a perfectly safe and self-regulated manner. 

The plant alkaloids mimic the endogenous peptides enkephalins and endorphins (Chapter 12), which meditate nociception and sleep. There are three types of widely distributed opiate receptors. Mu receptors are concentrated in neocortex, striatum, thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala and spinal cord, delta receptors in neocortex and amydala, and kappa receptors in striatum, amygdala and hypothalamus (Mansour et al., 1988). 

Immediately upon awakening, the Alchemist concentrates upon a short period of meditation, during which time he shall join together into a sympathetic chain les graru Inities de Au-De d. Then he shall quickly dispose the order of his occupations. His prayers should be made seated upon his bed, with his head and shoulders covered by a veil of fine linen. 

There are various types of meditation Prayer is probably the best known, but there is also TM (transcendental meditation), mindfulness meditation, and, from the Eastern tradition, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation, and Taoist meditation. All of these types of meditation focus on quieting the busy mind. The intent is not to remove stimulation but rather to direct the concentration toward one healing element—one... 

The simplest form of concentrative meditation is to sit quietly and pay attention to your breathing. Focusing the mind on the continuous rhythm of breathing in and breathing out provides a natural object of meditation. As you focus your awareness on breathing, the mind becomes captivated by the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. As a result, breathing becomes more regular and the mind becomes more tranquil and aware. 

In order to investigate the mystic experience, an experimental procedure was devised based on classical descriptions of contemplative meditation. This procedure can be described as one of perceptual concentration. An initial short-term experimental study showed that very striking changes in the perception of the self and of objects were possible through the use of this procedure, and there were also indications that analogues to the classical mystic experience could be achieved as well. The rationale, procedure, results, and conclusions of this experiment have been reported elsewhere. 

Contemplative meditation requires that the subject relinquish his customary mode of thinking and perceiving. Thoughts must be stopped, sounds and peripheral sensations put out of one s mind, and the contemplation of the meditative object be conducted in a non-analytic, non-intellectual manner. This aim determined the composition of the instructions that were read by the experimenter to the subject immediately preceding the first few sessions. Subject A, who had begun the first experiment, received the following directions "The purpose of these sessions is to learn about concentration. Your aim is to concentrate on the blue vase. By... 

Meditation techniques are varied, but Naranjo and Ornstein 39 have classified them into three basic types (1) concentrative meditation, (2) opening-up meditation, and (3) expressive meditation. Here we consider the first two and begin by analyzing a technique common to both before further distinguishing between them. 

Naranjo and Ornstein 39 describe the meditative statel 71 of consciousness that can result from concentrative meditation as a discrete state characterized as "voidness," "blankness," or "nothingness." There seems to be a temporary nonfunctioning of all psychological functions, in some sense, difficult to deal with verbally, awareness seems to be maintained, but there is not object of awareness. The appearance of this meditative state seems to be sudden and to clearly represent a quantum leap. The practice of meditation quiets down the various subsystems, but there is a sudden transition to this pattern of voidness. 

Confusion results when the word meditation is used to describe many different things, it is probably too late to prevent sloppy usage, but ideally, the phrase tried to meditate means that the meditater attempted to carry out the instructions but was not successful at concentrating or holding the posture. The phrase did meditate means the meditater felt he was relatively successful in following the instructions, event though no meditative state developed. The phrase reached a meditative state means that the meditater actually did so. 

Opening meditation is usually practiced in the same sort of posture as concentrative meditation, so all the effects of posture on disrupting the b-Soc are similar. 

We do not know enough at present to adequately describe how the d-ASC reached from opening meditation, characterized by freshened perception, differs from the feeling of freshened perception occurring within one s ordinary d-SoC as an aftereffect of concentrative meditation, (back)... 

Figure 17-3 presents an ordering of nine d-SoCs that are all higher than ordinary consciousness. These are d-SoCsf21 to be obtained sequentially in seeking enlightenment through a path of concentrative meditation in Buddhism. 

Sciences are acquired only by study, by meditation, and not by dispute. Leam a little at a time repeat often the same study the mind can do all when concentrated upon one sole object, but nothing when trying to embrace too many. 

Meditation is probably the best preparation for a psychedelic session. Those who have spent time in the solitary attempt to manage the mind, to eliminate thought and to reach higher stages of concentration, are the best candidates for a psychedelic session. When the ego-loss state occurs, they are ready. They recognize the process as an end eagerly awaited, rather than a strange event ill-understood. 

Many people become ecstatic or euphoric, others become meditative and concentrate on the hallucinations with eyes closed. Sometimes, especially during the initial stages of the inebriation, there can be a slight feeling of paranoia, but this is seldom more than momentary. 

This trial appears to contradict other research showing that relaxing, meditative music that is continuous, without pauses, produces lower blood pressure. The researchers speculate that all music has pauses, and that concentrating on the music and then lapsing into pauses may have more of a meditative effect. 

Concentrative meditation techniques basically instruct you to put all of your attention on some particular thing. This can be an external object that is looked at fixedly or some internal sensation such as the rise and fall of the belly in breathing. As in hypnotic induction, the meditater is told that if his mind wanders away from this focus he is to bring it back gently] to this focus, and not allow it to distracted. 

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