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Eddie33
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 Posted - Oct 28 2007 : 12:11:33 PM
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It just seems sometimes in my mind that by constantly thinking a mantra your pushing out other thoughts that without conscious recognition can't release themselves.
Can anyone help me with this?
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Kyman
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Posted - Oct 28 2007 : 2:05:09 PM
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Hi Eddie,
Continue to cultivate inner stillness, and your mind will create a space in which you can repeat the mantra.
If you were to try samyama, you might have a similar distraction caused by the mind's momentum. Deep meditation will purify the system, still the body, and quiet the mind.
Also, doing a technique over a long period of time yields the best assessment. You might be having a lot of thoughts because you are just starting a new practice that affects your energy, or maybe because the mind is agitated for some reason we just can't make sense of yet. Time will certainly tell if we take measurements every day.
If you continue to do your practices every day and self pace when your body needs to rest and recover, one day you should pleasantly find your mind to be a very hospitable place for the internal repetition of a mantra, contemplation, or deep concentration at will or breath.
You might have a great deal of stillness cultivated already, though. So maybe you are just having trouble accessing it, or it comes and goes often, occasionally leaving you at a time where your practices require it. It might be that you need to take more time relaxing the mind and body before hand. Everyone knows how jumpy the mind can be when it is jarringly on, the hemispheres operating against each other instead of in harmony.
It takes some time to find the right pace, where all our practices fluidly interweave into what amounts as a very deep and blissful experience. Deep meditation, pranayama, mudras, asanas, and the other techniques have an amazing and inevitable effect when tied together with consistent and balanced practices.
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Eddie33
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Posted - Oct 28 2007 : 7:09:57 PM
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| thanks Kyman! |
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