Stop Distracting Thoughts And Perfect Your Meditative Gaze
I Am Sharing A Tool, And Proven Method, To Immediately Stop Distracting Thoughts While Giving You Feedback When Your Mind Wanders.
I am sharing a tool, and proven method, to immediately stop distracting thoughts while giving you feedback when your mind wanders.
Stopping distracting thoughts relieves your anxiety, stress, burnout, and overthinking so that your presence and inner peace are enhanced, giving you space for healing and advancing your meditation.
The tool is a video crafted to defeat your visual perception when it tries to make sense of what the video is showing, which immediately stops intrusive and distracting thoughts from arising.
When this happens, the presentation of the video is then used by the practice method to give you immediate feedback in response to when you are further distracted, so that you can perfect your meditative focus and concentration, while training your mind.
Basically, what I have done is taken an idea from my doctoral dissertation on “biphasic perception” and applied it to the problem of learning to stop seizing mental phenomena. I felt that if we could facilitate our developing the correct gaze at all times, then we could more easily train our mind. What I didn’t expect is that it would immediately stop our mind from producing these distracting mental phenomena, leaving only our perception active (and only the initial bare ‘immediate experience’). It is an amazing state to be without thoughts. It is like standing in a clear space in which only your sense perceptions are present, and you see everything clearly.
How did I make this happen? By using a video crafted to overwhelm our visual perception, which immediately stops intrusive and distracting thoughts from arising, the presentation of the video gives the meditator immediate feedback when their attention wanders. In this way, the video changes in response to our meditative gaze, and it is from this feedback that we can immediately recognize when we are seizing mental and perceptual distractions.
And, as a side-effect, the muting of our intrusive thoughts can be an antidote to so much suffering in the world, and in our lives.
So in early July I asked the subscribers to my website for volunteers to test this tool with me. I got 25 responses from around the world, and so we worked together for over three months. Their findings validated my idea, and in fact built upon it. Most of the volunteers were established meditators with a range of practices. Two were beginners in their twenties, two were doctors, and one, the most prolific tester, was our only female volunteer (there are now three women contributing). All but one of the testers confirmed that the tool’s feedback was helpful in their practice, and were surprised by the responsiveness of its feedback and the way that feedback manifested. Some of them also reported surprising results. Among these were four cases of individuals experiencing a complete removal of ‘brain fog,’ and one volunteer, who had a very traumatic childhood discovered that emptying their mind by watching the video immediately stopped the trauma from being replayed yet again.
The one exception to these positive results reported a strong fear that the tool was potentially harmful, because it defeats our perceptual faculty’s ability to make sense of what we are seeing, so they didn’t test it, and dropped out.
I released an introductory video on YouTube recently. In it, I briefly explain what the tool is, and what watching it can do for the viewer. I also mention that one can use this tool as a way to stop seizing things in one’s meditation, and how you will know that you are seizing things. The last two minutes of this video are the actual tool that I have embedded into it, so that people that are curious can try it out immediately. There is a link in the description of the introductory video on YouTube with which you can download the actual tool directly. Looping the video allows you to practice with it for longer periods of time. And doing so, more quickly trains your mind to stop producing invasive and distracting thoughts. I am giving this freely to everyone that wants to benefit from it, because I believe that it can truly help others, both meditators and non-meditators.
My next video will cover how to use the visual feedback of the tool to train your mind not to seize anything. If you want to be notified when new videos are posted, please subscribe to my YouTube channel there.
Thank you.