karri0n
Well-Known Member
I hate to say it, but there's nothing fast about learning to meditate effectively. People spend their entire lives doing little more than meditation in attempt to reach enlightenment, and even then the number that do is small. Learning to clear your thoughts more effectively IS great progress. The important thing is to find a specific technique, and to stick with it. The more you use a certain technique, the more your mind will connect that technique with the states that you are trying to reach. This is a technique called "anchoring", and is also employed in psychotherapy for things like addiction or obsession control.I've tried everything I've researched and that you guys posted, still getting nowhere fast. I have managed to clear my thoughts better during meditation but so far that's my only progress.
If I may ask, what is your goal, and what techniques have you used? Have you looked into brainwave entrainment at all?
You can order a brainwave entrainment demo CD for free from the centrepointe research institute - I believe the program is called "holosync". Unfortunately, the first half of the thing is basically an ad for the program, with the brainwave entrainment signals running in the background. Even with the guy's distracting voice going the whole time, I was very impressed with just how deep into meditation it could bring me, even when I had very little practice into reaching those states. Also, I wasn't "brainwashed" into giving them my money by listening to the demo that had the brainwave entrainment signals embedded into it. I did, however, then do my own research, used music that I personally found to be relaxing and meditative, and started using brainwave generator(free software) to embed binaural beats into the music that I had chosen.
If you'd like to go a more natural route and use only what your mind has available to you, that's great too, and I can answer any questions or offer any advice you are looking for.