I don't know about you, but I *LOVE* meditating and can easily spend many hours doing it. However, this is adversely affecting my pk progress. I keep a journal and I noticed I was way, way stronger when I only practiced for an hour rather than 2-3. In fact I feel like I'm losing effectiveness/power by doing it so much.
I'm going to try including breaks and reducing my total time per day to 1.5 hrs split between the morning and evening. I'll see if things are different.
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When You say meditating; what do you mean by that? Many people people think that meditation means relaxing & zoning out, but this is not the case. Meditation should make your PK stronger, rather than weaker. When I say meditation, I am talking about either insight meditation, or concentration.
Insight meditation, involves allowing thoughts related to conceptual reality arise & pass by, without grasping hold of them, in order to gain wisdom to see ultimate reality, or reality as it is without your conditioned overlay. Insight meditation is good for enlightenment, but most people don't have a strong enough mind for the practice. Concentration, helps to develop that mental strength:)
Concentration, which is what you want to practice for developing mind powers, involves resting your attention on an object, & then bringing your mind back to the object when it wonders.
In either style of meditation, you should be highly alert & developing your awareness. Remember, Buddha, means awakened one; most people are asleep. The delusions of waking life, are equivalent to REM dreams.
Unless you are a master, the actual meditation doesn't usually happen right away. For instance, when you 1st start concentrating on an object, your mind will wonder a lot relative to your experience as a practitioner. The actual meditation is only achieved once your mind has settled. This is often called access concentration; a state when it can feel like you are in a bubble & are only aware of your self & the object. Then you eventually pass into a state where you loose awareness of the physical & ego self, & are only aware of the object; you become the object of concentration. This is the beginning stage of samadhi, & you are crossing over into Omnipotence; omniscience, & omnipresence. By definition, you are realizing more power:)
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Thinking is creating. Non thinking or meditative state builds creative potential. Often a side effect of not addressing or thinking through a stressful problem creates creative potential which releases as a geist. When I say non thinking what I mean is being in the observer just being state. In that state connections to "external" energy occur. (Which is really just you observing that the "external" energy is actually connected to you.Sleep is important to. It in a way for me resets the "karmic" buildup of the day or hour before and allows me to observe from a fresh perspective.
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Yeah, proper sleep makes a huge difference for me. Relaxed focus is very difficult, when You are tired. Though, just like physical training; pushing my limits has been important as well:)
Hey guys, I just wanted to update you: yep - took a few days off and my powers grew, despite my drinking behaviors, etc... YES I can say without a DOUBT that practicing too much every day (pk, not meditation) has an adverse effect on your strength. Tomorrow and the next day are my break days - I'm just going to do ujjayi, chakra sensing and awaken my magick and that's it.
Also, I found that cardio exercises helps to increase pk power dramatically, but it also reduces the amount of available energy you have. Right now I feel completely drained and hollow. I know I need to rest - BIGTIME before my next big push. I hope to get to a level where I can practice every day as much as I want because I really love doing it.
Also, I really want to thank Joshua - I completely stopped sexual activity of ANY type and I feel like I recover much, much better in my practices. In fact this he is the third person to tell me this but I never took it so seriously before I saw the results for myself.
-- Edited by pewep on Tuesday 3rd of December 2013 06:20:46 AM
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