Question for Deepak: I am not able to meditate or even still my mind for a moment. The incessant chatter of the mind goes on continuously without any specific subjects and I feel tired of myself. My mind does not know how to relax. I have tried various methods, even hypnotherapy. Though I must say that after the hypnotherapy course I felt good for some time and was able to focus better on things. I keep trying to search for something (I don’t know what so I can’t give it a name, happiness, peace, security, God??). But seem to fail. I’ve tried practicing Buddhism, follow different faiths and I am still where I was… nowhere.
I am sure my question also sounds confused. Do you really think the PSM would help?
Answer from Deepak: Your situation is not as unusual as you might think. It is typical for the mind to chatter away with one thought after the other. Without guidance in how to meditate, it is not easy for the mind to settle down and find peace. The hypnotherapy probably worked for you because the process was guided for you. When you are left on your own though, without a specific method for your mind to follow, it just keeps cycling through thoughts.
The mind actually wants to become still and silent, it only needs a vehicle, such as a mantra, to allow it to move inward, instead of outward through the senses. When you learn meditation from a instructor you are taken step by step through the process of settling down until you experience that inner silence of the self. You are given the understanding and tools you need to deal with the thoughts and all the experiences that come up during meditation.
So, yes, learning Primordial Sound Meditation, would be a good way for your mind to learn how to relax.
Love,
Deepak
Yes, there are various methods of meditation which can be developed under guidance.
My personal experience in meditation is that it came naturally to me.
Doing meditation in a natural surrounding like Parks or on hill leads us to meditation immediately.
Restless souls should break up the routine and go to Parks or Yogashrams or Resorts or Spa as many time as possible. It would lead to natural mediation at these places.
Calm, Peace, Bliss, Beauty, Hills, River
Rajesh
I would recommend self-hypnosis first. It's meditation with a goal, and your goal can be to some day truly experience meditation.
Self-hypnosis works very well for people with restless energy as it gives them something to do. The type of self-hypnosis I teach actually grounds and centers the body to allow the mind to focus on a specific goal. It's amazingly effective.
In good health,
~Liz
I like moving meditation
and I have found a great way to get rid of the thoughts as they come – literally spit them out – purse your lips and blow out with the sound "fut" or "puh" . I use it when my thoughts go in a direction I don't want them to – my wife and I may be driving and she says something that triggers something in me and my mind starts to go in a direction I do not want it to, I will spit it out – it works so well she can ask me, "what did you spit out?" and I can honestly say, "I don't know" and then I can ask about goals/intent/values and what we want to move from and create.
light n love,
peter
It wasn't until I started doing yoga 5 to 7 days a week that my mind suddenly became extremely focused. I credit my concentration in yoga to my success in meditation.
Love and Light
Lily
Meditation is simply a way to quite the mind so the true self may be revealed. All suffering is of/in and with the mind. The mind itself has no power and is a useful tool in receiving ideas outside of that which we know as knowledge.
The problem is that we have closed off this receiving of new information by programming/feeding our mind with information.
This information we have gathered from past experiences and what we think we have learned from them. This information has become our mind from which we operate. We let our mind tell us what we should think, say and do.
The key to freeing oneself from suffering…is to separate oneself from mind…..this is where meditation comes in and is a useful tool in achieving that goal. Meditaion is not the goal….it's a tool to achieve a goal. And I say "a" tool…because there are others.
The first step in meditation is to learn to control the mind. This is done by focusing one's attention on a single focal point. This can be done with eyes closed or open. Should other thoughts arrise, do not fight them but simply bring one's attention back to the focus point.
In the beginning this might seem hard to do…but with practice these thoughts will subside if they are given no attention. Thoughts feed off attention….good or bad.
Another way is to simply become aware of thought. Not what one is thinking about…but simply recongnizing a thought as a thought.
If one can observe thought…..one is not "one" with it. That thought looses it's power the moment one separates from it.
Even to believe one can not meditate….is a thought. Nothing more and nothing less.
Practice y
PS: I would also suggest that you use a japa mala, for the purpose of japa mantra meditation.
Rafael