Achieving Stillness – Part Two

When you meditate for the purpose of achieving stillness, you know you have reached that state when all of the spiritual noise dies down. The ideas and images that accompany you through the day and night are quiet. After a few minutes, you will start having realizations that will come effortlessly.

Each time I have meditated for stillness, I have ended up with realizations that have handled problems I was wrestling with.

I have done this meditation with my eyes both open and closed. If you have the opportunity to meditate with your eyes closed, it seems to go to completion faster. There are very few steps to achieve the full results, and I have listed them below:

  1. Make yourself comfortable either sitting down or lying down.
  2. Put your full attention on your body and make it stop moving.
  3. Now focus your attention on some spot and keep it there while keeping your body still.
  4. If your eyes are closed, focus your attention on some spot in the field you see with your eyes closed.
  5. Listen to your breathing while keeping your body still and your attention on the spot you have chosen.
  6. If you are still perceiving thoughts or images, just acknowledge them and continue doing #5.
  7. Continue doing #5 and #6 until you experience stillness and are fully in present time.
  8. Experience the stillness until you start having realizations.
  9. When the realizations cease, you are done with the meditation.
  10. Make a note of your realizations before you do anything else.

I suggest that you practice this meditation several times a day until it becomes an ingrained pattern, and you can do it successfully without thinking about it or referring to notes. The object here is to gain the ability to quickly recognize when your spirits are not fully operating in harmony with you. 

When your spirits are not operating in harmony with you, you will experience random thoughts and chatter about what you are doing and thinking. This is a constant form of distraction, and you do not need to allow it to happen. Meditating to achieve stillness will pause the random chatter, and you will regain the focus you need to achieve your goals. When you are focused on tasks you wish to complete, this applies gentle control to the attention of your spiritual companions and you will get help when you call for it. Ideas will seem to come out of the blue when you are focused on some interesting task. When this happens, you may feel like you are conducting an orchestra of designers who provide ideas on command. When I am writing, I feel this every day. I throw out an idea, and I get responses that modify and expand upon my idea, and the process continues until we have a finished product.

If you have no tasks to perform, you may find yourself daydreaming, and it is in these times that your spiritual companions can put on complete performances. You will get a flood of ideas and imagine all sorts of outcomes. This is exactly what happens when you fall asleep and dream. Your spiritual companions combine efforts to play out old dramas that have never been resolved and to relive pleasurable memories as well. If you find yourself in the grip of unpleasant dreams or ideas that just will not go away, meditate for stillness, and you will find yourself in a more peaceful state in present time and will be able to go back to sleep again.

You don’t have to control your spiritual companions all the time, but you should know how to take control when you need them to cooperate with you and get things done. There are all kinds of processes you can run to handle upset spirits, but you can maintain control and get your work done with occasional meditations for stillness. This will put you in present time and will establish harmony among your spiritual companions.

I would like to hear from those of you who gain a measurable ability from doing this meditation to achieve stillness.

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