Mindfulness Advice

[dewrwe]

HEY...

I use Leo's  mindfulness technique and I notice a lot of monkey mind when i meditate, there is a lot of mind chatter. So i have a very little amount of FOCUS and SENSORY CLARITY. mind chatter is usually a load of negative emotion bombarding the mind constantly . So i used Leo's technique for  STRONG NEGATIVE EMOTION. that gave  very good result so i used both the techniques when i meditated but still there is mind chatter will this go away as i practice

 

 

 

[Prabhaker]

7 minutes ago, dewrwe said:

when i meditated but still there is mind chatter will this go away as i practice

The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it. The very effort to stop it gives it more nourishment to go on. Millions of people, for centuries have been trying to stop it, and they have all failed, for the simple reason that the desire to stop it is also part of it. It is not beyond it.

One side of the mind is desiring the other side of the mind to become silent. This is not possible. The only way few people have been able to stop it without making an effort to stop it, are the people who have disidentified themselves with the mind. There is not even a desire to stop it or to continue it, because all desires belong to it.

One simply watches it. Let it chatter. You simply become a watcher. Let the traffic of thoughts move. There is nothing to be worried. It is going to harm nobody. These thoughts are only soap bubbles. Don’t take them seriously. Don’t become tense while watching them. Be relaxed.

It is one of the secrets of inner life, that as your watcher becomes more and more strong, the thoughts become less and less. It is exactly in proportion. When there are hundred percent thoughts in the mind, you have zero watcher. When you have ten percent consciousness involved in watching, ten percent of your thoughts will disappear — because it is the same energy that creates thoughts, that creates the watcher.

The mind can stop, but not by your effort but by your effortless witnessing. That is the whole meaning of meditation. Relax. Don’t force, and just watch. Let the mind do its things. It will take a little patience, but it has always happened. It is almost a scientific law, without exception, that if you can manage a little patience you will come to a point where the watcher is nourished and the mind becomes unnourished, and the thoughts start disappearing. When the whole energy of your consciousness moves into watching, you will find there is no mind at all. And to know a state of no-mind is the greatest experience in life a man is capable of. It is ecstasy. It is superconsciousness. It is self-realization. There is nothing higher than that.

[Alex4]

do nothing technique does it very good to me, all that monkey mind I visualize I think -"hey thats my ego talking to me"