Don't Waste Time Meditating! Make Every Second Count With Feedback

Dont Waste Time Meditating!
Make Every Second Count With Feedback

Yes the raves are true. Meditation benefits from relaxation to enlightenment are time tested and research confirmed. In fact, no other single thing you can do has more benefit to mind, body and spirit. Meditations downside, however, can turn off beginners and lead practitioners to quit. Meditations downside (dare I say it) is wasted time.

Though many are aware of the problem, we never hear of this downside. Few will criticize a sacred practice with religious roots, but now the time has come for an honest, objective look. The time is now because something new has arrived on the scene something with the power to solve the problem. A feedback mediation method makes precision guidance possible. Adding feedback to meditation creates an efficient exercise where every second of practice time pays off. Let me explain how and why it works.

Trouble Paying Attention: The Downside of Meditation.
Inability to hold attention is the core of meditations problem. It accounts for the daydreams, drifting, fidgeting -- maybe even dozing off. All traditional meditation methods share this problem. Though some sit, some move, some are vocal, some silent, all require attention for success. Each method attends to something (a mantra or the breath, for instance). Attention makes meditation work. It is meditations active ingredient. With it comes benefit. Without it we while away time. Regardless of which traditional method is used, much of meditations potential benefit is lost to inattention.

Why is it difficult, even with the best intentions, to sustain attention? The answer is this: when the task is attention, we literally cant see what we are doing. We may sit down aiming to attend, but attention slips away unseen. We lose it without even knowing we are losing it. Put simply, meditation is like shooting darts blindfolded. Your target is attention, but if you cant see your target, you cant correct your aim. If we could take off the blindfold and see what we are doing -- if we could monitor and observe attention, this problem would be solved. The good new is we can do just this. The solution is feedback.

The Feedback Solution.
Surprisingly, the solution has been right before our eyes, unrecognized all along. I stumbled upon it one day while meditating. I was exploring an open-eyed method (Zens open gaze). I was focusing attention on a spot on the floor when a little halo of light began to flicker around the spot. I knew immediately what caused the light. It was caused by attention itself. Attention held my eyes still. This held the image in the same place on my eyes retinas, using up photo-pigment, causing retinal fatigue, resulting in visual distortion in the form of light.

I continued to focus on the light. I found that as long as I attended, I saw it. When my mind wandered however, my eyes wandered and instantly, the light vanished. The light was feedback. It let me see what I was doing by signaling good attention and alerting me when I wandered off. I found that with the light I could easily anchor and hold my attention. I could take charge: make every second count. I continued focusing on the light and within an hour I experienced had the coveted breakthrough sought in advanced meditation.

Today, specially designed Focusing Discs are freely available at http://www.StraightLineMeditation.com. These colorful discs enhance visual feedback making it easy for anyone to sustain attention. If youve ever suspected meditation of wasting precious time, prepare for a radical change of opinion. With feedback to confirm attention comes guaranteed success. Why waste time meditating? Make every second count with feedback.