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Thu, 11/16/2006 - 07:49
o jacob

Join Date: 2006-10-25
Forum Posts: 27

Hi there:)I wonder if anybody got any tips on a concentration exercise that I can practice on a daily basis? I try, as much as I can, to keep aware throughout day, but I think it would help if I got anything more firm to stay to. Like a reminder of some sort that can get me out of all my daydreaming.Thanks for your replies:)Jacob
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Thu, 11/16/2006 - 09:50
Jim B.

Join Date: 2004-05-28
Forum Posts: 1009 		you can make certain activities anchor points for coming back to awareness. things like brushing teeth, tying shoes, washing dishes, make a mental note every time you do such an activity to gently come back to awareness. you'll find that this helps with the rest of the day.
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Thu, 11/16/2006 - 11:56
Ruben C.

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Join Date: 2005-10-09
Forum Posts: 267 		Hey Jacob,

when you get comfortable with what Jim said, you can try using enterances and exits out of anything cars, buses and doors to just about any place. This works really well if you can sustain it because after the enthusiam dies, you have to keep pushing, something I'm still tackling with Astral checks. I find personally that astral checks really help with becoming aware and maintaining it. Just becoming aware of your sorrounding and trying to take notice of where you really are and what just happend before? could you have been sleeping just now? what where you just thinking? Now fight! to stay here in the moment aware, alive.

ruben
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Thu, 11/16/2006 - 13:45
Xanom

Join Date: 2003-10-27
Forum Posts: 79 		These are good tips.

However, I was mainly drawn to what you had to say Ruben.
When you fight the egos with awareness, how do you go about that when thinking about what you were just thinking and if you were sleeping or not?

I've done that thinking it's right, but thinking it can't be right, right? Confusing?
I guess that as soon as you start thinking about the moment, it's already passed, thus you were not aware of it.

That's the way I see it.
Please do reply to this.
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Fri, 11/17/2006 - 02:01
o jacob

Join Date: 2006-10-25
Forum Posts: 27 		Thanks for your replies:) Those are good practices.

I will try to adopt them.

When I catch myself in a daydream I try to trace it back to where it began. Things like noise, people talking, and stuff like billboards and other written stuff, often have a impact on the daydreams. Like if I notice the daydream early enough, I can see that the dream had a start because this or that thing.
What do you mean by astral checks Ruben? is this like reality checks?

Thanks,
jacob
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Sun, 11/19/2006 - 07:19
Anne Linn

Join Date: 2004-07-03
Forum Posts: 51 		Hello,

I find it helps concentration to do one thing at the time, as much as possible, during the day. Watching tv and doing homework at the same time, for example, makes being aware harder.
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Sun, 11/19/2006 - 17:33
Jim B.

Join Date: 2004-05-28
Forum Posts: 1009 		astral checks are practices you can do during the day that you will find you'll start doing in dreams as well, so then you'll know if you're dreaming. like one is to stop and really question whether or not you're dreaming, how you know, and then pull your finger, really intending it to stretch, then if it stretches then you know you're in the astral. also another one is to question like before, but take a little jump and try to float or fly. but as i think it was Samael who said--just don't jump out the window! i find the finger one quite effective.

peace
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Mon, 11/20/2006 - 02:19
o jacob

Join Date: 2006-10-25
Forum Posts: 27 		Ah, the anchor point technique was quite hard, I tried that with the doors, and of the overall doors I went trough only very, very few of them was used to snap back to awareness. Though the exercise was unsuccessful, it showed me something else, not so worthless. I got more aware of the daily state I am in, always consuming energy on useless daydreams. And as you consist in this practice the better you get at, so it gives you a lot in return. Like dreams get more clearer at night. Thanks for the tip on this one:)

Yes, Anne Linn, the egos is always in constant conflict. An ego wants this: " Go! be productive, do some homework!". And as this thought arise, the complementary ego say this: "Nah! You got good time, homeworks can wait! Go and watch some tv." Too satisfy both you see tv and do homework at the same time, but then the conscious is trapped between the productive and destructive. You can't be both at the same time.

Peace