Another frequent question is:
„Hi Thomas- I often notice that people use this app ... (ref: Insighttimer.com , the author) ... to meditate for hours at a time... would you perhaps be able to explain to me why they do this?”
Trying an answer:
:) "Some people may think: „A lot helps a lot!“
Others just fall asleep while meditating.
When they wake up, the timer asks them if they want the overtime to be counted, and they do.
There are maybe some people who don’t have anything else to do, others may replace one addiction with another.
In some special life situations I myself keep meditating for longer sequences than normal
(for healing, for solving a problem, supporting others, to relax and recover, ... or just listen to god)
Some people might try out how long they can bare it to live without food, drinking or metabolism at all (save money , they don’t have or don’t want to spend? While others are spending all their money on luxury retreats in luxury spas or hotels, meditating for hours not even taking breaks for having delicious meals.) Some may just be trying to prove being an advanced yogi?
Others may want to wait for the experience of enlightenment. I’ve met some who meditate to prepare for their transition to their next incarnation.
So You might guess, there are as many reasons as there are persons meditating. Most of the time, when persons are meditating with a certain goal this is not working nor is it leading into meditation.
This is why I keep saying to my students:
„Don‘t be a person!“ and „Meditate to just meditate and nothing else but meditate.“
There is a trick to help You keeping Meditation - and Your self-definitions (this summary of Your roles as a person, Your goals and wishes) apart from each other:
David Simon once taught me:
Before You even start Your meditation, ask Yourself the 3 (or 4 soul-questions):
Who am I ?
What do I really want?
What is my Dharma?
(What am I grateful for?)
In this order these questions are leading You to a good starting position.
Alow Yourself about 1 minute with each question. Then breathe in - and out - and let go of all the questions and answers. After this preparation just follow Your Primordial Sound Mantra, always returning to it, once You realize to be loosing track. It’s as easy as that.
When starting to repeat Your Mantra set Your inner clock to a certain time. Maybe use the Insighttimer to lead You back out of Your meditation. Once the time is done, stay some more minutes just sitting“
Being all one, in the end it’s not at all important how long the members of the Insighttimer community are meditating, as long as they are making it a daily habit, what would You think?
Namasté
Thomas“
PS: I am recommending the Insighttimer App for Smartphone-Users. Join in for free.
Visit me there, join in to one of my groups, find answers to all Your questions on meditation and build up a daily habit of contemplation choosing the way You like.
There You can meet Millions of meditators of all around the world, meditate together with thousands of Your meditating friends at any time, meet and ask over 3000 of the worlds best and approved meditation teachers, let Yourself accompany and support at Your daily practice, choosing from over 8,345 free guided meditations, music tracks, talks and courses. Have fun meditating.
Meet You in the Gap ;)
2018/03/03
Most frequently asked Question
Hello Everyone, having been asked frequently: "What is a primordial sound mantra?" I decided to give this short and simple explanation:
A Primordial Sound Mantra (PSM) is a Mantra which is based on the sound, that could be heard by Yourself in the moment of Your birth at the place of Your birth.
The universe and the earth together are producing sounds all the time, these sounds are changing around every 6 hours in a steady movement (just like the tides of the oceans do).
Within a cycle of 28 days and nights there are about 117 sounds that can be well distinguished (and a few more).
The change of sounds is pretty much happening parallel to the movement of the oceans with high water and low water following the gravity of the moon.
In the moment of birth, at this step from non-manifest into manifest for You as a little human child there are still no audio filters set up by Your brain.
The selection of individually relevant sounds is following the process of learning Your mother language within the first years of live.
Before that we've all been able to receive the primordial sound frequencies in a certain range the construction of our ears is suitable for. Later on we select the sounds which are helpful to communicate (as well by music) and survive in nature and tend to forget about the others.
The old Rishis, wise people from ancient India, took notes of the changing sounds in reference to the movement of the moon already some thousand years ago. These data could be found and revealed in the nadi (palm leaves) libraries of some old monasteries in India and this secret knowledge is now available as a reference system. In combination with some astronomical knowledge it is therefore now possible to recalculate which sound happened in the area at the above mentioned moment of transfer based on ones birth data (place, day, time).
This sound then can be used as a mighty auditive memory anchor to travel back to this individual moment of transition, which is very supportive to find Your way into a state of deep meditation.
The good news is: Every certified choprateacher in Your vicinity should be able to reveal Your sound birth sound mantra if You hand him (her) over Your birth data. You can find them on www.choprateachers.com. Contact the one in Your neighborhood and apply for the the beautiful live mantra ceremony, which really is a once in a lifetime event. Yes there are online solutions around for moments of urgency or if traveling is limited. Yes I have been giving Mantras on Skype or FaceTime myself before. If it's not too much of a hustle prefer the personal live encounter with Your teacher nearby.
Namasté Thomas
A Primordial Sound Mantra (PSM) is a Mantra which is based on the sound, that could be heard by Yourself in the moment of Your birth at the place of Your birth.
The universe and the earth together are producing sounds all the time, these sounds are changing around every 6 hours in a steady movement (just like the tides of the oceans do).
Within a cycle of 28 days and nights there are about 117 sounds that can be well distinguished (and a few more).
The change of sounds is pretty much happening parallel to the movement of the oceans with high water and low water following the gravity of the moon.
In the moment of birth, at this step from non-manifest into manifest for You as a little human child there are still no audio filters set up by Your brain.
The selection of individually relevant sounds is following the process of learning Your mother language within the first years of live.
Before that we've all been able to receive the primordial sound frequencies in a certain range the construction of our ears is suitable for. Later on we select the sounds which are helpful to communicate (as well by music) and survive in nature and tend to forget about the others.
The old Rishis, wise people from ancient India, took notes of the changing sounds in reference to the movement of the moon already some thousand years ago. These data could be found and revealed in the nadi (palm leaves) libraries of some old monasteries in India and this secret knowledge is now available as a reference system. In combination with some astronomical knowledge it is therefore now possible to recalculate which sound happened in the area at the above mentioned moment of transfer based on ones birth data (place, day, time).
This sound then can be used as a mighty auditive memory anchor to travel back to this individual moment of transition, which is very supportive to find Your way into a state of deep meditation.
The good news is: Every certified choprateacher in Your vicinity should be able to reveal Your sound birth sound mantra if You hand him (her) over Your birth data. You can find them on www.choprateachers.com. Contact the one in Your neighborhood and apply for the the beautiful live mantra ceremony, which really is a once in a lifetime event. Yes there are online solutions around for moments of urgency or if traveling is limited. Yes I have been giving Mantras on Skype or FaceTime myself before. If it's not too much of a hustle prefer the personal live encounter with Your teacher nearby.
Namasté Thomas
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