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Originally Posted by The Batlord
The method I learned a decade and a half ago was just to accept that thoughts will of course occur and to label them as "just a thought" and not to assign any value to them (e.g. *thought occurs* do not think of it as a good or bad thought that you do or don't want to think but simply as a thought) and simply keep doing this for as long as you meditate. It isn't about necessarily clearing your mind but about allowing your thoughts to progress as they normally would and seeing where that leads without the interference of bull**** that encourages you to "virtue signal" to yourself and lead your thoughts down pathways that agree with how you already think you should think.
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Yeah. You might try making your breath the focus of your meditation before turning to simply letting your thoughts go. Making your thoughts the focal point of your meditation is more advanced and I often find it upsetting. It’s been at least a few months since I’ve meditated because the thoughts and visions that started coming up starting getting so ****ed up.
I found this guided meditation where you repeat “My mind is at ease. I’m at ease with my mind.” I made a personal self-guided meditation recording for myself that’s about 25 minutes long that starts with a focus on the breath and allows for letting my thoughts run free and also uses that mantra for a bit. I’m pretty staunch about sitting up straight and being absolutely still. I typically keep my eyes open during the focus on breath and closed on the focus on thoughts or the lack of there being a “you” outside of your consciousness. When youre on breath (or maybe an object like a candle or a tree) when your thoughts wander you can gently pull them into the subject. After doing that for a while when you let go... it can be like damn. If you go 20 minutes with almost no movement that’ll change how you feel for sure. If you get up to an hour it can get ****ing surreal.
People who do it for hours on end... that must get tripped out like crazy.