Here I would like to write about some of my subjective experiences with meditation. Meditation has been at the top of my list of values for about 6 years now, and I have dedicated a lot of time to it. Hopefully, there will be some useful advice/inspiration for you here too.
Some of this may be my speculation, but hopefully, you will find something here that will help you.
In general, when meditating, if you want to achieve any results, it is necessary to work hard and persistently. Nothing is free. Laziness will not help you.
Which is, of course, wrong and sad, that few people today are seriously interested in meditation. It is not an easy activity. But the results are great.
Position during meditation
The yogic lotus position for meditation is probably an exhibitionist, unnecessary stupidity during meditation. It is an obstacle to meditation because it is uncomfortable and hinders concentration during meditation.
The best way to meditate is to sit comfortably.
Protection against falling asleep, malaise, ensuring alertness
As a safeguard against falling asleep during meditation, one should sit with one's back unsupported by the chair. This helps a person to stay awake.
Having your eyes open is the right thing to do to stay alert.
Immobility of the body
From science, we know that the cerebellum and body movements are closely related to the cerebrum, and thus to thinking and consciousness. To achieve an altered state of consciousness, we know from meditation practice that it is necessary to achieve complete stillness of the body, without the slightest movements. Check whether your limbs are moving during meditation. There is a tendency that at a conscious level you do not realize how spontaneously you move a limb here and there (and yet it is an obstacle to meditation).
Available literature and websites on meditation
Esoteric literature on meditation is in a sorry state. Various authors can pontificate and philosophize a lot about meditation, but finding something truly valuable, practical, and usable about meditation is extremely difficult.
The only thing I can recommend from meditation is working with the basic seven energy centers/chakras. It is essentially about breathing through the chakras. I consider the information on this page (more precisely on this link) to be valuable.
http://satori.mysteria.cz/energy.html
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Working with chakras: the spiritual body. (a small piece of advice)
When working with chakras, it is necessary to focus on the spiritual body. It is good to start from the philosophy of dualism of the existence of spirit and body. Your goal is to focus your attention not on the physical body but on the spiritual body.
Focus on the physical body when you use and "strain" your brain during meditation. You also focus on the brain (or body) if you are not sufficiently and properly relaxed, if it is done with a certain tension.
However, the goal of this meditation is the art of focusing the attention of consciousness (or the ability to consciously perceive) the spiritual body. You need to perceive your spiritual body and work with it. And work with it in such a way that you will work with the chakras (cleaning them and charging them with energy).
The specific way of breathing through the chakras
Personally, as soon as I feel an increase in activity in one chakra, I move on to the next. As part of one meditation exercise, I usually breathe through all the chakras multiple times and repeatedly. As a rule, with a well-concentrated exercise, I dedicate about 1 minute to one chakra and then move on to the next. And from one chakra to another, we pour energy as if from one vessel to another.
It is always necessary to breathe through the chakras from top to bottom in order. If we get to the bottom, then breathe again from the top, from the crown chakra downwards. This is because the lower chakras (the first three from the bottom) are, according to shamanism, the most polluted and cause the biggest problems. It is good to move higher energy with higher vibrations from the higher chakras down to the lower chakras. This is very helpful and useful.
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The methodology of breathing through the chakras
– You need to realize that each chakra has its own frequency, it has its own vibration. In order to activate the given chakra, it is necessary to tune into it in this frequency/vibration. The lower the chakra, the slower its frequency, the higher it is, the higher its frequency.
-try to increase the frequency of vibrations in the given chakra (not too much, because then you would not be able to activate the given chakra at all). Increasing the frequency helps evolutionary spiritual growth and reduces suffering and complications in life.
– all chakras need to be activated and cleansed, but the first three lower chakras are the most polluted – these need to be cleansed the most
– The following options for breathing through the chakras also exist: In each chakra, take one breath in and out and go to the next chakra, and repeat this many times (breathe through the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh chakra, and then again the first, second, etc., and repeat this many times). Breathing through the same chakra for too long can be quite counterproductive – it then becomes quite difficult for a person to concentrate and they have too many distracting thoughts. Another option is to alternate focusing on individual chakras even more frequently: with an inhale, you focus on the first chakra, with an exhale on the second, with an inhale on the third, etc.
– have a more concentrated inhale than exhale, or a concentrated energy inhale and an unconcentrated exhale – this way you will better receive energy into your chakras
– If you meditate for longer hours, it is good to interrupt the meditation and go into a trance for a while. And during the trance, also breathe through the chakras, or just do conscious breathing in general. Overall, this will quite effectively increase the energy level in the chakras.
– realize that you are drawing energy from your higher parallel consciousness, from your higher self
– If you focus on exhaling negative energy from the chakras, try to exhale low-frequency vibrating energy. If you focus on receiving energy, try to receive fast-vibrating energy. It is very useful and helpful to follow this.
– Be very careful to tune into "higher sources", higher dimensions (as mentioned in this guide) when breathing through the chakras. If you are in a bad, irritable mood, experiencing depression (or if you are not attuned to harmony and inner peace) and you breathe through the chakras, you will inhale negative energy from the lower worlds. This is very dangerous. You will not find this very important information anywhere in esoteric literature, yet it is very important – it is a matter of life and death for you.
Chakras can also be breathed in the way described by Robert Bruce:
1. Root chakra: Draw energy into the root chakra.
2. Spleen chakra: Draw energy from the feet through the root chakra up to the spleen chakra.
3. Solar Plexus Chakra: Inhale energy from the feet through the root and spleen chakras up to the solar plexus chakra. Open the solar plexus chakra. Repeat this three times, starting in the feet.
4. Heart chakra: Draw energy from the feet through the root, spleen, and solar plexus chakras up to the heart chakra. Open the heart chakra. Repeat this three times, starting from the feet.
5. Throat Chakra: Draw energy from the feet through the root, spleen, solar plexus, and heart chakras up to the throat chakra. Open the throat chakra. Repeat three times, starting from the feet.
6. Frontal chakra: Draw energy from the feet through the root, spleen, solar plexus, heart, and throat chakras up to the frontal chakra. Open the frontal chakra. Repeat three times, starting from the feet.
7. Crown Chakra: Draw energy up to the crown chakra, just as in the previous steps. Repeat the entire process twice, starting from the feet.
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Determination, devotion, perseverance, diligence, industriousness, strong and firm will
– These are things that we must strictly observe in meditation – and it's worth it – it will bear fruit – one way or another, we will ultimately have less suffering, more inner happiness.
-If something doesn't work, don't give up – you have to be persistent – you have to learn from failure, you have to experiment in different ways and try it differently
I know many extremely fanatical Christians. They see how their religion enslaves them, they see how they have a lot of suffering in their lives and their God does not listen to them to help them, they see that their religion gives them nothing – and yet they are not willing to give up their fanatical faith. And the further they go, the more they cling to their fanatical religious faith.
Religious people have religion at the top of their value scale and are willing to devote a lot of time to religion every day, even though they are significantly busy.
A similar and even greater problem is with Islam.
The path of meditation is the right path – but it is a difficult path – one gets nothing for free. I have shown how devoted fanatical Christians can be – how much more devoted and persistent should a person be who follows the path of meditation?
In the course of meditation, a person must go through difficult trials.
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Recording observations and experiences during meditation
And otherwise, as for meditation, I try to experiment a lot. Of course, experiments are not only successful but mainly unsuccessful. But you can learn a lot from failure, too. Overall, I'm slowly learning something and gaining valuable knowledge that you won't find anywhere in literature or on the internet.
I personally make short, concise notes on my mobile phone, where I write down where and in what I made mistakes, what I should specifically emphasize, what I should watch out for, what the given experiment in meditation taught me, what I managed to understand and realize, what I experience during meditation, and so on. It is also good to write these notes to better realize some things that a person only realizes in the subconscious.
Every single meditation teaches me a lot, and I write notes like these during each meditation. So I've already written them on really long pages.
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Sensory deprivation
The following link is also very interesting,
http://wiki.astralni-cestovani.org/Smyslov%C3%A1_deprivace
Probably the most interesting device is the flotation tank . The salt solution should be so dense that a person does not drown in it because the displacement is too strong. The environment ensures body temperature and this is very reminiscent of the environment in the mother's womb. In the flotation tank, a person figuratively returns to the time when they were still in their mother's womb, just before their incarnation. This allows a person to achieve a change in the state of consciousness very effectively and probably also easily leads to disembodiment.
One also has a feeling of floating.
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Energy Power Place/Power Zone
– A power spot or power zone is a place where energies flow strongly. Shamans use such places mainly for meditation. These places allow a person to grow spiritually faster, and better meditation techniques are also performed there.
– I personally am very lucky to live near very important power places – it is a whole series of the most important power zones in Central Europe.
– In general, as clairvoyant people (e.g. shamans) say, energy generally flows most on crystalline rocks and geological faults.
Furthermore, power zones are often located in the places of current older churches – historians say that Christians built churches on the former sacred places of the Old Slavs. Clairvoyant people also confirm these facts.
– The power spot is often a hill of a conical/pyramidal shape.
– A geological map can also help you find power spots, it is also available online. https://app.geology.sk/gm50/
– Shamans explain that power places are currently much stronger than in the past – the energy in them flows as strongly as it has not flowed in the last few thousand years.
-My experience with one extremely powerful place is unconventional: a person's state of consciousness visibly changes there, and it may not be pleasant (and I am not an energetically sensitive person with clairvoyant predispositions at all) – such a large amount of energy can be a great shock to human consciousness.
-Even a few days after returning from a power spot, I still feel that my consciousness is slightly altered, and it's not exactly pleasant. However, it can also have a significant meaning – a power zone radically accelerates a person's spiritual growth, even at the cost of unpleasant feelings and turbulence in consciousness.
Theory: Entry into the subconscious, acquisition of an altered state of consciousness. Stopping the "Mexican waves" in the brain
If we work with chakras, we need to have a slightly altered state of consciousness. Overall, in meditation, we need to get into the subconscious, to open the gate to our subconscious with keys.
The goal of meditation is to focus attention on the subconscious and partially turn off/deactivate consciousness.
To understand meditation, it is reasonable to say something from science – medicine: neurology. The brain, when in a normal state of consciousness, works in so-called alpha waves. The brain is constantly moving in a way that resembles the Mexican waves of people at a sporting event.
In a normal state of consciousness, the brain moves – sometimes this movement of the brain is referred to in scientific neurological terminology as "brain vibrations". https://www.google.com/search?q=brain+mexican+waves
I think that when the room is quiet, a person can perceive these brain movements.
If you try to experiment with meditation in various ways, e.g. by observing your consciousness, you should be able to perceive these movements in the brain.
The goal of meditation is to stop these brain movements. This leads to a slightly altered state of consciousness. This change in consciousness is very subtle and spontaneous, it is not a very strong experience.
In this way, the brain is somewhat quieted, and a certain stability and constancy occur in consciousness. Namely, a person in a normal state of consciousness has a brain full of instability and changes. These changes need to be stopped.
This is also confirmed by the Patanjali Sutra, which is a kind of ancient guide to meditation written in ancient times in the Sanskrit language.
The following is written in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Here are some examples:
(1.2) Yoga is the (control) cessation [nirodha] of the modifications of the mind-stuff [cittavṛtti].
(1.3) Then, when the changes of the mind [cittavṛtti] are stopped, the observer rests in (his)
in its own form.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pata%C5%88d%C5%BEaliho+s%C3%BAtra
http://isvara.cz/PDF/jogasutry%20translit+CZ.pdf
It should not be a cramped, unrelaxed, but rather a spontaneous and relaxed cessation of these changes and movements in the brain and in consciousness.
Overall, working with consciousness should be spontaneous.
Overall, I refer to this entire process of stopping changes in consciousness (or stopping "movements" in the brain) by the working title "brain immobility".
In the next step, try to "transfer" this stillness not only to the brain but also to the more "subtle" parts of consciousness.
Once we achieve and maintain this state of brain immobility, we take the next step. We try to tune into our "subconscious" in some way (in psychology, this is also called the unconscious). You essentially need to tune into your "non-Self" . Your true inner Divine "Self" is actually "non-Self" . You need to tune into something that is yours and belongs to your being, but it doesn't seem to belong to your Self, to your conscious "Self".
Your subconscious is not your mind, but it is something much more subtle, it is a kind of "subtle" and "ethereal". It's as if you were tuning into your second brain – the ethereal brain, to your second consciousness – the ethereal consciousness.
Try to keep this peace, stability, and immobility in your mind at all times, so that our "gross-material" mind, which comes from the brain, does not disturb the "subtle" "ethereal" subconscious.
It is also good to try to weaken your individual "self" with a mental technique and acquire a loss of your "self". This will help us to get into the desired state of consciousness of stopping changes in consciousness.
If you manage to tune in like this, you have essentially achieved what is necessary – a change in the state of consciousness, after which it is possible to breathe through the chakras (work with them, energize them, and purify them).
It is important that you do not have fear and tension that this meditation will not work for you, because that is a major obstacle to achieving the goal in meditation.
On the contrary, try to convince yourself of the following "affirmation", for example, that this particular moment (the present moment) is absolutely ideal for meditation and that everything is going where it should.
(It is obvious that similar mental techniques can also help in lucid dreaming).