Bunnicular wrote:emily wrote:I've been meditating trying to clear my mind, no wonder it didn't work. I always have something in my mind :crazy:
Question: Let's say you want to meditate and spend sometime with one of your spirits, harpy for instance (or any other
). Do you think about a place and that your harpy is with you, you do this and that? If the harpy says something, how do you know its not you who was thinking about it vs. the harpy doing it by himself? :think:
If I may provide a response to your question -
If you tend to force a thought (either intentionally or unintentionally), it usually means it's created from your own expectations/desires, thus you can be fairly confident that the thought is your own and not your spirits'.
Lets use an example:
If you send out a question to your spirit, don't skew the response by automatically filling your head with what you'd
like the response to be, what it
could be, or what you
expect it to be. More often than not, in the beginning, you may have to catch yourself and make a conscious effort to stop doing it.
Once you've sent out a question.. focus on your breathing, center yourself, and simply draw the spirit's energy towards you.
Avoid thinking about the possible answer.. because this is the point where the response is immediately interrupted by your own thoughts and thus, you get an 'answer' created by you. Simply allow for your spirits' own response to come through, without your thoughts interrupting. Don't try to force it, let it come on it's own.
I hope this helps somewhat.
That, I feel, in itself can lead to the problem of blocking out thoughts, yours or otherwise.
Personally, I don't see a problem with "forcing" your thoughts. It does interrupt things, but as you get more comfortable with what you're doing you tend to automatically ease up on it anyway, and that will allow other things to come through.
Rather then trying to do anything, think, or not think, it's best to just do what needs to be done and then let things flow naturally, that's what seems to work best for me so far.
Even if you're imagining your happy place during meditation with your Spirits there and everything. At first you may be consciously controlling your imagination but as you keep at it you'll start to ease up, just like when you practice breathing, and everything will start falling into place on it's own without you having to "think" about it.
As for the question of "how will I know if it's me or them", there's no definite way to know. There's no test, there's no method to find out either or, you'll just know when you hear it as you get used to what you're doing, as it becomes second nature.
The worse hindrance for me in all of this has always been trying to do things according to how someone else explains it, failing or getting no response, getting frustrated, trying something else, repeat process until head explodes. That's why, doing what needs to be done, then just letting yourself go and things sort out on their own is, I feel, the best advice anyone can give. This does NOT mean that you should ignore the advice of others or any reading material you come across, but that you should take it all with a grain of salt and adapt it to what you feel is comfortable rather then a step by step instruction.
It's like riding a bike, no one can explain to you how to do it, the first time everything clicks and you feel that perfect point of balance is when you'll know how it's done.
:nice::
