What Are You Training For?
Do you sometimes use audio tapes or CDs for meditation? How about state-inducing machines like flashing lights... sound generators... biofeedback devices...
If you've never tried them, be assured that they are excellent for helping you become acquainted with the feeling of meditative, hypnotic or reverie states. They can quickly produce exactly the physical cues to produce a mental state, such as alpha brain waves. Being able to go to these states quickly and dependably is a big plus, and can give you tremendous confidence when you're just starting out.
There comes a time, however, when such devices are no longer necessary. The machine-induced meditative state is wonderful, but it's just the launching pad for deeper, more subtle work.
Eventually, if your abilities are really growing, it will be appropriate, even necessary, to put away the machines and rely on the skills you've developed with the help of those very devices. It's like taking the training wheels off your child's first bicycle. That's when the real growth begins.
I've heard some people make fun of people who use the flashing lights or the biofeedback units. Please don't ever ridicule them. These devices serve a good purpose and have helped many thousands of people start who would never have gotten their toes wet otherwise.
And if there are some who never progress past those “artificial aids,” that's okay, too. Some people don't really have a need or hunger to go further.
But if you've been using an artificial helper machine for a while and wish you could experience more, maybe now is a good time to do it.
Just switch off the devices, settle back and let your own mind start seeking. It already knows that it's hungering for something. Give it some room, and enjoy as it begins to explore. That's what minds are for.
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I'll see you there.
Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,

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