Reverse Psychology Mantra

[Jacobsrw]

So something profoundly interesting happened within my mediation today. I was half way through my session and throughout it my mind was being pervaded by thoughts. As this was happening it just occurred to me that whatever my mind does NOT right now want will be the first thing it focuses on. So I figured why not encourage the mind to do the opposite to what it would want.

Oddly enough, I started chanting “do not be aware” continually. As I did this my body began to become intensely aware and thoughts vanished. The silent ringing in my ears intensified (I enjoyed this), the senses increased and my body began to feel like it was being compressed in a vice. My eyes were closed and my eyelids began to pulsate.

It was quite extraordinary to be honest. The cliche reverse psychology approach seemed to have some merit to it. The remainder of mediation was quite intense and thoughts relinquished. As I usually do after meditating, I sat with with my eyes open just staring at the end of my bed. This time it was much deeper than usual. My bed began to morph as I stared at it and things became dimensionally warped. 

Overall the experience was great and completely unexpected. Just goes to show how backward our minds operate. It also gave me insight to how deep we have been defaulted to operate in a hyper organised manner. Means a lot of work to do.

if anyone one has any mediation insights or interesting tips feel free to share. I hope this is of some value!

[seeking_brilliance]

interesting... I'm curious to see if this works for you again.  It makes sense, because you are speaking to both monkey mind and subconscious at the same time. You are telling monkey mind "do not be aware", which is like putting a big red button that says "don't push". And then they say that subconscious only picks up the main word of the sentence, in this case "aware", so you are telling it to "be aware".   

Same kind of method of falling asleep, where you actually try not to fall asleep. 

[Truth Addict]

Amazing!

Law of Attraction at work.

[Jacobsrw]

@seeking_brilliance exactly! The mind is a very mischievous thing haha

@Truth Addict yes you could say that! However, I think with law of attraction we don’t credit ourselves enough though.

For me the only way I see law of attraction working is that it subconsciously has you operating congruent to your mindset and you begin doing things aligned to what will acquire your desire.

So once you attain the desire you become surprised but not realising that actually subconsciously you were moving towards it intently not it moving towards you. Funny way to look at it but makes way more sense to me this way haha

[Nahm]

@Truth Addict ?

@Jacobsrw Neat insight.

[Truth Addict]

@Jacobsrw

I would say it works both ways. And in your case, it was like focusing on not thinking of an elephant.

Anyway, I agree with what you said, but I also think you have become intensely aware because it was a new method that you've never tried before. The mind haven't created tolerance for it yet.

@Nahm I wasn't kidding, but I'm glad it made you laugh ?

Edited June 25, 2019 by Truth Addict