Seeing Who You Actually Are – BionicOldGuy

That is the title of an fascinating and enjoyable ebook by Richard Lang.

Varied meditation academics describe our true self or true nature not because the incessantly chattering voice in our heads, however as the attention that we discover is calmly wanting on when our ideas turn into quiet. I’ve been lucky to expertise this consciousness spontaneously on a couple of events, particularly when in stunning pure settings. Currently, I can even get glimpses of it whereas meditating (both sitting or in movement). A couple of creator has described workouts that assist us to get these glimpses, equivalent to within the two books I described right here. It could possibly take self-discipline to apply meditation often. Glimpses like these may be motivating, by letting us know what it could be like if our on a regular basis minds had been quieter.

Richard’s ebook can be stuffed with this kind of train, and I discovered a few of them to be useful and enjoyable. Richard is a follower of the work of Douglas Harding, who’s most well-known for the ebook On Having No Head. Douglas was serving within the British military in India throughout World Battle II, and whereas on depart he was mountaineering in an space close to the Himalayas. His entertaining description of his expertise there’s informed in On Having No Head, and Richard additionally discusses it in his ebook and on his web site. Basically what occurred is that Douglas out of the blue felt like there was not likely a head above his shoulders, as an alternative there was an unlimited expanded consciousness searching. This was a pleasant and stress-free feeling. He spent a superb little bit of the remainder of his life understanding this expertise and attempting to show others to have it. Richard’s ebook has a collection of workouts primarily based on the teachings of Douglas. I discovered his model of the workouts a bit simpler to observe than the workouts Douglas himself gave in his personal books.

My expertise is that everybody is completely different and a few of these work for a few of us whereas different folks could reply to completely different ones. It jogs my memory of once I was studying to ski. The trainer wished me to maintain my higher physique pointing downhill throughout a flip with my arms stage. Telling me to fake I used to be carrying a tray of drinks and to not spill the drinks didn’t work in any respect. Telling me to fake my firsts had been headlights and I wished to maintain the sunshine shining downhill labored nice (for me).

Two workouts labored particularly effectively for me in Richard’s ebook. The primary is the spectacle train. Contact your fingertips to thumbs to make circles with each palms. Then contact the circles collectively to simulate spectacles (see image). Now convey the “specs” as much as your eyes. As soon as your fingers contact your face, open your fingers and slowly pull your palms away to the left and proper, attempting to trace them together with your peripheral imaginative and prescient till you’ll be able to now not see them. Whereas doing this, think about that your consciousness is increasing. Once I did this, it appeared like my consciousness turned actually giant and lined 360 levels. It was a really stress-free feeling.

The second train is simpler to explain. Whereas in movement, equivalent to strolling, biking, or driving, think about that you’re stationary and the surroundings is coming to you. This works particularly effectively for me whereas biking. For some motive this modification of perspective (which physicists would check with as a change in coordinate techniques) is stress-free for me. Each this and the spectacle train can convey on the “calm consciousness” feeling described within the first paragraph above.

Richard’s ebook is on kindle limitless without cost if you’re signed up for that. In any other case, you may get a free pattern of the ebook which incorporates the primary three workouts, and pursue it additional when you have any luck noticing an “consciousness shift” with these. Richard additionally runs a web site “The headless approach“. It has loads of the workouts beneath “experiments”, for instance the spectacles train known as “single eye”.