Introduction
The choice of this generic title “the precious thought” is a counterbalance to the idea that thought is an obstacle to meditation.
The theme of this meditation deals with the management of thought.
Previously, we explored spatial emptiness (neither inside nor outside) and temporal emptiness (an instant of eternity). It remains to explore the emptiness of thought (thought becomes so discreet that we have the feeling of not thinking).
All people who practice meditation wish to experience emptiness of thought. But before you get there, there are some steps to take:
- Know his thought
- Accept his thought
- Sort out your thoughts
- Control unnecessary thoughts
- Identify the causes of the appearance of unnecessary thoughts and regulate them
- Unfold the qualities of the mind and the heart
- Achieving the state of emptiness
Meditation
Creation of an atmosphere of pause, rest, therefore silence.
“ Making silence, listening to silence and encountering the effects of silence is the obligatory passage to access thought.
To meditate is to go from a hyper-activity to a lesser activity to slide towards a contemplative activity, a source of rest.
We all need rest to maintain our vitality, but also to mature our ideas and increase our intellectual and cognitive faculties.Rest is believed to slow down brain activity. It is not so. Energy at rest consumes 80% of the activity involved in daily activity.”
Danis Bois
During this meditation, I invited meditators to explore several spheres of thought.
- Brain scan.
After quickly exploring the density, shape, and weight of the brain, I focused on the prefrontal area behind the forehead, which is the seat of the executive system (control) and the default mode (thinking). not controlled)
During the immersion, I gave insightful information about thought control and letting go of control, giving rise to wandering thoughts …
- Awareness of trends.
Hyper-frontality: tendency to control everything in their life, including their thoughts.
Hypo-frontality: tendency to wander in thought, to reverie, to let things happen in life.
I invited the meditators to be aware of the tendency they found themselves in during this meditation and in their daily life.
- Awareness of the nature of thoughts.
- Are your thoughts interfering with your meditation or not?
- Do you have the feeling that you have a flood of thoughts wandering, wandering?
- Are your thoughts repetitive, worrying and worrying?
- Do you consider your thoughts to be unnecessary or unnecessary?
- Do you have the feeling that you are not thinking?
- Are you able or not able to influence the course of your thoughts? ”
- Awareness of the causes generating awkward and unnecessary thought?
- Attention dropouts due to attentional distractibility
- Non-compliance and non-application of verbal instructions
- Letting go of control
- Drowsiness, fatigue.
I specified very carefully that the problem is not at the level of thought but at the level of attention +++. Normally, focused and sustained attention prevents any appearance of thoughts.
Proposal of a technique for diverting thought through a smile.
- The benefits of smiling
- Maintaining a smile over time
- Spotting moments of forgetting a smile
- Smile reactivation
- Widening of the smile from the lips to the face, then to the heart, then to the cells and all over the body.
- The smile in the thought.
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