I do believe I have something holding me back however I dont know what would be the cause of my hangup, fear or frustration. You're right I've been trying to meditate and advance expecting immediate results and thinking that I'm weak cause I dont feel said feelings or effects that advanced or intermediate practitioners would feel. I have been doing yoga, I can hold some of the positions for a few seconds to a minute longer than before, and yes most of time I concentrate on an image I always do it tired so I'll learn to do when I'm more active and awake.
I do agree that I havent been putting full intention on void meditation, so I'll take your advice and be more serious about void meditation :smile:
Visualization use to really easy for me too when I was younger, but over the years I lost the ability due to drugs, so I have to start from square one again. I've been thinking about opening my 3rd eye, sixth chakra and clairvoyance points for a long time now, its just that I havent been sticking to a serious "Aura Cleaning" routine cause of my visualization. When I do visualization training again which will be right after I post this reply, I'll learn to relax and not try too hard...Sort of like relax like a sloth :smile:
Thank you Jack, I'll be more patient and consistent in my meditation. I'm already pretty consistent with Hatha Yoga, just need to do the same for Kundalini Yoga and meditation in general :smile:
I agree with your observation, it took more than a few tries to be able to ride a bike without no training wheels(I do apologize if I used the wrong word to describe your sentence)
I've been thinking about just solely cleaning my chakras and leaving the aura so I can open my chakras, well the ones that govern visualization. However I think that'll cause more harm than good, even opening chakras with a dirty aura is said to be bad as to which it can cause further problems.
So today, I was listening to white noise music for a few hours, and reading about Lucid Dreaming. I only had a few thoughts, I never listened to any music since it becomes increasingly difficult to clear my mind of any thoughts. So I paused the music put on my ear muffs which help me focus better and went and laid down. Started doing breathing naturally just listening and feeling the breath enter my nose and flow back out. However I just couldnt get rid of those few thoughts, so I did what someone else on a different topic suggested.
I tried my best to visualize a blackhole and any intruding thought I imagined it being sucked into this black hole, after a few minutes I had virtually no thoughts whatsoever albeit one thought, but this felt a lot further away as if it was miles away but I could still hear it....So I didnt pay much attention to the thought and concentrated on my body. I focused on my entire body, and from an article I read from a Lucid Dreaming site, it mentioned to visualize your hand melting into the furniture. So I did just that I visualized my entire body melting into my bed, and its like I could feel it melting into the bed. After 2 minutes I could no longer feel my body and my mind was now completely devoid of any thoughts. Problem is I messed up my breathing, and was seemingly stuck in a limbo state of a trance(semi-consciousness, I'll call it) and (consciousness) so I couldnt relax my body enough to where it felt heavy like what usually happens when I'm in this state.
So I stayed in this state for a few minutes devoid of any thoughts, desperately trying to get to the trance state. After that I got up and there was still no thoughts in my head and this felt like it went on for a few more minutes completely devoid of any intruding thoughts. So I was sitting in my chair just relaxing reading the Clairvoyance points page, I closed my eyes looked at where I think my 3rd eye was and started doing the working, I imagined my 3rd eye full of light and sending energy down to my first eye then my second eye after that I kept trying to intensify each chakra point with each exhale. I did it about 8 breaths, then I stopped and opened my eyes. But when I stopped I was feeling something near my forehead area but very slightly, I just wonder what would happen if I had of stayed in the meditation and kept working on it, I only stopped cause my aura is very dirty and didnt wanna cause more problems with my 3rd eye and 2 chakra points I was meditating on...
So maybe I still do have a knack for visualization I just need a little more practice with it and hopefully I be better in no time. I do apologize for the long post, but this happened today and I wanted to share it with you all.
HAIL SATAN AND ALL THOSE ALLIED TO HIM :smile: