That is the name of a fascinating and amusing e-book by means of Richard Lang.
More than a few meditation academics describe our true self or true nature no longer because the continuously chattering voice in our heads, however as the attention that we understand is flippantly taking a look on when our ideas turn out to be quiet. I’ve been lucky to enjoy this consciousness spontaneously on a couple of events, particularly when in stunning herbal settings. In recent times, I will additionally get glimpses of it whilst meditating (both sitting or in movement). Multiple writer has described workout routines that lend a hand us to get those glimpses, akin to within the two books I described right here. It might take self-discipline to observe meditation frequently. Glimpses like those may also be motivating, by means of letting us know what it might be like if our on a regular basis minds had been quieter.
Richard’s e-book could also 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 e-book On Having No Head. Douglas was once serving within the British military in India throughout Global Struggle II, and whilst on depart he was once climbing in a space close to the Himalayas. His entertaining description of his enjoy there’s informed in On Having No Head, and Richard additionally discusses it in his e-book and on his web page. Necessarily what took place is that Douglas abruptly felt like there was once no longer actually a head above his shoulders, as an alternative there was once a limiteless 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 figuring out this enjoy and seeking to educate others to have it. Richard’s e-book has a sequence of workout routines in accordance with the lessons of Douglas. I discovered his model of the workout routines somewhat more uncomplicated to observe than the workout routines Douglas himself gave in his personal books.
My enjoy is that everybody is other and a few of these paintings for a few of us whilst people might reply to other ones. It rings a bell in my memory of when I used to be studying to ski. The teacher sought after me to stay my higher frame pointing downhill throughout a flip with my fingers stage. Telling me to fake I used to be wearing a tray of beverages and to not spill the beverages didn’t paintings in any respect. Telling me to fake my firsts had been headlights and I sought after to stay the sunshine shining downhill labored nice (for me).
Two workout routines labored particularly smartly for me in Richard’s e-book. 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 deliver 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 along with your peripheral imaginative and prescient till you’ll now not see them. Whilst doing this, believe that your consciousness is increasing. Once I did this, it appeared like my consciousness turned into actually massive and lined 360 levels. It was once an overly enjoyable feeling.
The second one workout is more uncomplicated to explain. Whilst in movement, akin 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 modification of point of view (which physicists would seek advice from as a transformation in coordinate programs) is enjoyable for me. Each this and the spectacle workout can deliver at the “calm consciousness” feeling described within the first paragraph above.
Richard’s e-book is on kindle limitless without spending a dime in case you are signed up for that. In a different way, you’ll get a unfastened pattern of the e-book which contains the primary 3 workout routines, and pursue it additional when you have any success noticing an “consciousness shift” with the ones. Richard additionally runs a web page “The headless method“. It has numerous the workout routines underneath “experiments”, as an example the spectacles workout is known as “unmarried eye”.
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