Posted by pegasus on July 26, 2004, at 11:59:09
In reply to Meditation question, posted by gardenergirl on July 26, 2004, at 0:57:29
I haven't done a lot of meditation *on* something, but I've done a bit of meditating in general. I would think that you could use the statement about creativity the way you normally use your breath or your mantra. So, when you find your mind wandering, you could bring it back to the statement, instead of bringing it back to the breath. That seems to me as though it might be useful. I might try it myself.
Usually when I meditate, I use my breath as the anchor point to go back to when I find myself spinning off into thoughts and emotions. But sometimes I take part of my meditation session to do other more directed techniques. There's a Buddhist practice called tonglen in which you visualize breathing in dark, negative energy and breathing out light, positive energy. Usually this is focussed on some problem in myself, or my community that I'm having a hard time dealing with. It makes me feel that I can use my compassion in a productive way.
I think the point there was that maybe you can have different phases in your meditation, where you focus on a mantra, or breath, and then later do the statement.
Just some thoughts.
pegasus
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