That is the name of a fascinating and amusing ebook via Richard Lang.
Quite a lot of meditation lecturers describe our true self or true nature now not because the regularly chattering voice in our heads, however as the attention that we understand is frivolously taking a look on when our ideas grow to be quiet. I’ve been lucky to revel in this consciousness spontaneously on a couple of events, particularly when in stunning herbal settings. In recent years, I will additionally get glimpses of it whilst meditating (both sitting or in movement). A couple of writer has described workouts that lend a hand us to get those glimpses, corresponding to within the two books I described right here. It will possibly take self-discipline to follow meditation ceaselessly. Glimpses like those may also be motivating, via letting us know what it could be like if our on a regular basis minds have been quieter.
Richard’s ebook may be filled with this sort of workout, and I discovered a few of them to be useful and amusing. Richard is a follower of the paintings of Douglas Harding, who’s most famed for the ebook On Having No Head. Douglas was once serving within the British military in India all through International Conflict II, and whilst on go away he was once mountain climbing in a space close to the Himalayas. His entertaining description of his revel in there’s informed in On Having No Head, and Richard additionally discusses it in his ebook and on his website online. Necessarily what came about is that Douglas all at once felt like there was once now not in point of fact a head above his shoulders, as a substitute there was once an unlimited expanded consciousness taking a look out. This was once a pleasing and enjoyable feeling. He spent a excellent little bit of the remainder of his lifestyles working out this revel in and seeking to train others to have it. Richard’s ebook has a chain of workouts in keeping with the lessons of Douglas. I discovered his model of the workouts somewhat more straightforward to practice than the workouts Douglas himself gave in his personal books.
My revel in is that everybody is other and a few of these paintings for a few of us whilst folks might reply to other ones. It jogs my memory of when I used to be studying to ski. The trainer sought after me to stay my higher frame pointing downhill all through a flip with my hands degree. Telling me to faux I used to be sporting a tray of beverages and to not spill the beverages didn’t paintings in any respect. Telling me to faux my firsts have been headlights and I sought after to stay the sunshine shining downhill labored nice (for me).
Two workouts labored particularly smartly for me in Richard’s ebook. The primary is the spectacle workout. Contact your fingertips to thumbs to make circles with each palms. Then contact the circles in combination to simulate spectacles (see image). Now convey the “specifications” as much as your eyes. As soon as your hands contact your face, open your hands and slowly pull your palms away to the left and proper, seeking to observe them together with your peripheral imaginative and prescient till you’ll be able to now not see them. Whilst doing this, believe that your consciousness is increasing. Once I did this, it looked like my consciousness was in point of fact huge and coated 360 levels. It was once an overly enjoyable feeling.
The second one workout is more straightforward to explain. Whilst in movement, corresponding to strolling, cycling, or using, believe that you’re desk bound and the surroundings is coming to you. This works particularly smartly for me whilst cycling. For some explanation why this alteration of viewpoint (which physicists would confer with as a transformation in coordinate programs) is enjoyable for me. Each this and the spectacle workout can convey at the “calm consciousness” feeling described within the first paragraph above.
Richard’s ebook is on kindle limitless free of charge if you’re signed up for that. In a different way, you’ll be able to get a unfastened pattern of the ebook which incorporates the primary 3 workouts, and pursue it additional you probably have any good fortune noticing an “consciousness shift” with the ones. Richard additionally runs a website online “The headless means“. It has a large number of the workouts below “experiments”, as an example the spectacles workout is known as “unmarried eye”.
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