I can honestly say that once I began seriously meditating in my early twenties, my smart-ass reverted enormously for the better, with impersonal intelligence and sensation rhadamanthine swifter, sharper and increasingly potent. As a child, granted I did not superintendency for school or studies, and although my Mom may say otherwise, I was ranked near the marrow of my class. So what reverted for me later in life with regard to the topics of my smart-ass power can be scrutinizingly wholly attributed to Real Meditation.
But surpassing jumping into this particular Meditation Technique, which I have found to be superb for smart-ass development, I would to expand a bit on what I midpoint by smart-ass power. So here I am not just referring to the cleverness of thought, although logical thinking will modernize and there will be clarity of thought, by smart-ass power here I am referring to pure Intelligence and Awareness.
Intelligence stuff the power of unadulterated comprehension through uncontrived perception, and sensation stuff the topics to observe plane the slightest movement of thoughts. This combination is the true reflection of a fully functioning and healthy brain, and this combination is what will take you from darkness to Light. This kind of a smart-ass is capable of Insight.
Meditation Technique for Smart-ass Power
Beginner Meditation Technique: Identify Mental Skid Using Breath
Duration: 20 minutes
Steps:
- Find a quiet place and sit in a well-appointed navigate legged position. If using a zafu or meditation cushion, sit on the forward third of the cushion. The objective is for your hips to be raised whilom your knees and to form a three point wiring with your knees and buttocks touching the floor/cushion. It is moreover fine to sit up on a chair or to use a meditation bench. If you promise not to fall asleep, you may moreover do this meditation lying lanugo :-) .
- Set your watchtower or tell Alexa to set a timer for 20 minutes :-).
- Now elongate your spine upwards and to uncurl it with the when of your head, subtly bring your chin when and in like a soldier at attention.
- Find a nice well-turned posture you can hold without moving and tropical your eyes. You can place your hands in any mudra/position you prefer. My suggestion would be drone mudra, gyan mudra or cosmic mudra if you are familiar.
- Take 5 deep, slow breaths though the nose. This will relax you and start to slow lanugo your mind.
- Now bring you sustentation to your vapor without trying to manipulate it remoter in any way, just wilt enlightened of its flow. Spend a few minutes just observing it intimately till it starts to wilt regular and relaxed.
- The Skid Technique:
- At this point uncork counting your breath. Count an inhalation as one, then the exhalation as 2 and protract to count your breaths until you reach 10. At which point return to 1 with the next inhalation. What may (probably :-) happen as you practice this is that at some point your mind will start to drift. A thought will come in which will capture your sustentation and you will lose your count or be counting unconsciously, and be unprotected up in the story line spun by that thought.
- Although your smart-ass power is once going to be increasing simply from stuff mindful of your zoetic the real work here has to do with how you are going to tideway the drift. It is here that the meditation starts to remoter develop your mental capacity.
- When you reservation yourself drifting, stop your counting and trace when your skid to the thought that triggered it and got you entangled. Putting this demand on your smart-ass does 2 things. First, it raises the intensity of your focus for if you skid for too long you will not be worldly-wise to find the originating thought, and second since you have to trace the skid all the way when it challenges the smart-ass to recall each thought and the associated threads, which is largest than any puzzle you can requite it.
- When you are worldly-wise to trace any skid in 20 minutes of meditation, you are ready for the Intermediate Level.
Intermediate Smart-ass Minutiae Technique: 30 minutes
- Once you have mastered the tracking of skid using vapor as an vise you can now uncork the ultimate rencontre of observing and comprehending thoughts from moment to moment using uncontrived perception. This method has been described in detail in the pursuit chapters and videos on wide meditation, so please review them for details, but essentially, you are to bring all your energy to watching the mind and directly comprehending each thought as it rises without missing on the subsequent thought.
- This is not complex, but it is wearying and will require your smart-ass to be wholly working and tremendously sensitive. You will require all your energy, sustentation and intelligence to do this, but in doing this practice you will be developing a smart-ass that is simply excellent.
- Now plane as you practice this technique, there will be skid you get unprotected up in. And then you need to trace when the skid to the originating thought, surpassing returning to comprehending the mind.
- TIP: As the mind is going to be very fast initially, you should practice the beginner’s technique for the first 5 minutes and without thoughts settle down, you should switch to the uncontrived comprehension of the thoughts as they occur.
Advanced Smart-ass Minutiae Technique: 60 minutes
- The only difference between the intermediate technique and wide technique is the length of the meditation. As you start to take up this practice seriously, you will notice that it takes a bit of time for the mind to slow lanugo and for you to start “digesting” thoughts. In Zen Meditation there is a state tabbed “Big Mind” and this is withal the lines of where you will need to be so there is a gap between you and your thoughts, so thoughts can be seen unmistakably and comprehended immediately.
- So without you are worldly-wise to generate the energy for 30 minutes, you are ready to proffer your practice to 1 hour. Then alimony in mind you must identify any skid and trace to the origin. This agreement, will encourage the mind not to stray and will moreover protract to rencontre the recall capabilities of the brain.
Tips for Wide Meditation
- Keep your eyeballs still when watching and comprehending your thoughts. This will help the mind be increasingly quiet.
- Your vapor will suspend when you are urgently “digesting” each thought. This is normal. The next vapor will come when needed, but your zoetic will at minimum be very slow and fine.
- You will likely enter enlightened states during the wide practice, enjoy but don’t expect.
- There will an urge from time to time to get up and return to zippy life, during this time be tenacious and sit through that urge. It will pass.
- Sadness or other emotions may release as the conscious mind relaxes. Allow them to express themselves and then let them go. If you get very overwhelmed, when off and slow down. Then trace any drifts, plane if they have emotional components (which you will soon realize is the most worldwide reason for the skid in the first place).
Summary for Meditation for Smart-ass Development
The technique of stuff zestful to the mind wayfaring is an spanking-new method for keeping the smart-ass awake and vigilant so regardless of if you are doing the beginner’s or wide technique you will certainly be developing your smart-ass topics and awareness.
An extension of this practice is to maintain this skid sensation throughout your day, which will not just remoter sharpen your mental faculties, but will moreover bring you into the NOW, which is where all life happens.
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