Meditation for Unwanted Thoughts

October 29, 2001

Taken form Kundalini Yoga By Shakta Kaur Khalsa Chapter 7

Sit straight in Easy Pose. Make a cup with the hands by putting the

right hand inside the left, so that when you look into this cup you

see the right palm facing you. The fingers will cross each other.

Put this open cup at the level of the heart center. Your eyes will

only look into this cup. Keep the head straight as you gaze. Inhale

deeply through the nose. Exhale through the puckered mouth into the

cup. The exhalation is a long dry spitting motion. Meditate on the

particular though that you have and do no like to have. Spit out the

thought with the breath. Inhale the thought, then exhale it into the

cup.

Continue for 11 minutes, then inhale deeply and exhale. With the

eyes closed , begin to concentrate on the spine. Slowly deraw you

concentration down the spine all the way to the bottom. Feel the

last vertebrae. Feel the spine as if you are feeling a stick in your

hand. The more you can feel the entire spine to the base, the more

the energy flow will activate your meditation

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As mentioned earlier I find this meditation helpful even when I can't

manage 11 mins. If I have something preoccupying me I tend to hunch

mentally around the preoccupation and it is hard for me to focus on

anything. I find this helps clear the blocks!

Sat Nam

Frances

October 29, 2001

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Monday, October 29, 2001 11:43

Meditation for Unwanted Thoughts

> Meditation for Unwanted Thoughts

>

> Taken form Kundalini Yoga By Shakta Kaur Khalsa Chapter 7

>

> Sit straight in Easy Pose. Make a cup with the hands by putting the

> right hand inside the left, so that when you look into this cup you

> see the right palm facing you. The fingers will cross each other.

> Put this open cup at the level of the heart center. Your eyes will

> only look into this cup. Keep the head straight as you gaze. Inhale

> deeply through the nose. Exhale through the puckered mouth into the

> cup. The exhalation is a long dry spitting motion. Meditate on the

> particular though that you have and do no like to have. Spit out the

> thought with the breath. Inhale the thought, then exhale it into the

> cup.

> Continue for 11 minutes, then inhale deeply and exhale. With the

> eyes closed , begin to concentrate on the spine. Slowly deraw you

> concentration down the spine all the way to the bottom. Feel the

> last vertebrae. Feel the spine as if you are feeling a stick in your

> hand. The more you can feel the entire spine to the base, the more

> the energy flow will activate your meditation

>

October 31, 2001

Thought I'd share my experience with this meditation. I did it 11 minutes a day

for 120 days, concentrating on thoughts about myself I didn't like (at a time

when my self-esteem and opinion of myself was very low) At the beginning, the

thoughts I was "spitting" out really hurt me. I believed them! Even so, those

thoughts plagued me less during the day once I had spit them out in the morning.

By the time I get near the end of the 120 days, I'd stil be spitting out those

thoughts, but I didn't believe a word of it. Internally, I was laughing at

these foolish ideas. This meditation taught me that the things I was saying

about my self were lies.

Peace, Love & Light, Sukhmani

October 31, 2001

Sat Nam,

Interesting meditation! And timely, too, as I recently have been wondering what,

if anything, to do with dreams, ah, nightmares, reflecting a childhood of

taunting and ostracism by classmates. I occasionally awaken feeling thoroughly

drained, as I had been struggling to defend myself from hurt in these dreams. I

wonder if I meditate on these dream creations, would their cumulative effect

diminish? I am curious to hear others' experiences.

Dana

Sukhmani Kaur wrote:

> Thought I'd share my experience with this meditation. I did it 11 minutes a

day for 120 days, concentrating on thoughts about myself I didn't like (at a

time when my self-esteem and opinion of myself was very low) At the beginning,

the thoughts I was "spitting" out really hurt me. I believed them! Even so,

those thoughts plagued me less during the day once I had spit them out in the

morning. By the time I get near the end of the 120 days, I'd stil be spitting

out those thoughts, but I didn't believe a word of it. Internally, I was

laughing at these foolish ideas. This meditation taught me that the things I

was saying about my self were lies.

>

> Peace, Love & Light, Sukhmani

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November 1, 2001

Kundaliniyoga, Dana Wasserman <dbwasser@e...> wrote:

Sat Nam,

Talking from my experience - this will not necessarily mean it is the

same for you.

I hold a lot of hostility and anger from my childhood. Most of the

time it is not there and then suddenly I will go through a phase when

I am going through all the 'old stuff' again. The trouble is even

though there might be some useful insights gained I tend to get

caught up emotionally which is not useful. I look at it a bit like

suppose you had an allergy to chocolate, it would not be useful to

spend the whole day talking/thinking how awful your life was because

you had this allergy. Yes it will cause certain problems, face those

problems as they arise but don't waste all your energy moping. So

for me I find it useful to achieve more dispassion. So suppose a

situation made me hostile or fearful, I would think on the

circumstances that caused these emotions and then use meditation for

unwanted thoughts to 'spit out the hostility or fear'.

For me I would try and achieve a dispassionate place from where to

observe the dream creations, I believe you need the intention of

letting go the emotions caught up with the memories rather than

reliving the experiences over and over again. Others may have a

different view.

Frances

> Sat Nam,

>

> Interesting meditation! And timely, too, as I recently have been

wondering what, if anything, to do with dreams, ah, nightmares,

reflecting a childhood of taunting and ostracism by classmates. I

occasionally awaken feeling thoroughly drained, as I had been

struggling to defend myself from hurt in these dreams. I wonder if I

meditate on these dream creations, would their cumulative effect

diminish? I am curious to hear others' experiences.

>

> Dana

>

> Sukhmani Kaur wrote:

>

> > Thought I'd share my experience with this meditation. I did it

11 minutes a day for 120 days, concentrating on thoughts about myself

I didn't like (at a time when my self-esteem and opinion of myself

was very low) At the beginning, the thoughts I was "spitting" out

really hurt me. I believed them! Even so, those thoughts plagued me

less during the day once I had spit them out in the morning. By the

time I get near the end of the 120 days, I'd stil be spitting out

those thoughts, but I didn't believe a word of it. Internally, I was

laughing at these foolish ideas. This meditation taught me that the

things I was saying about my self were lies.

> >

> > Peace, Love & Light, Sukhmani

Thanks Sukhmani, this is encouraging

> --

> Dana Wasserman <dbwasser@e...>

November 1, 2001

Hi Sukhmani aka Dana,

I concur with your process/struggle. I wake up and often begin

becoming overwhelmed and feeling like I don't have choices. This morning

I saw this viscious cycle beginning and I sat straight up and beginning

"spitting out" the idea that I don't have the power, worthiness or right

to choice. After just a couple of minutes my heart felt "quickened". I

felt some personal space and movement. After close to 11 minutes I

stopped (time flies when.......)

I will be doing this a lot more,

Dharam

P.S. Thanks to Samantha about reminding me of this little Gem

Dana Wasserman wrote:

> Sat Nam,

>

> Interesting meditation! And timely, too, as I recently have been wondering

what, if anything, to do with dreams, ah, nightmares, reflecting a childhood of

taunting and ostracism by classmates. I occasionally awaken feeling thoroughly

drained, as I had been struggling to defend myself from hurt in these dreams. I

wonder if I meditate on these dream creations, would their cumulative effect

diminish? I am curious to hear others' experiences.

>

> Dana

>

> Sukhmani Kaur wrote:

>

> > Thought I'd share my experience with this meditation. I did it 11 minutes a

day for 120 days, concentrating on thoughts about myself I didn't like (at a

time when my self-esteem and opinion of myself was very low) At the beginning,

the thoughts I was "spitting" out really hurt me. I believed them! Even so,

those thoughts plagued me less during the day once I had spit them out in the

morning. By the time I get near the end of the 120 days, I'd stil be spitting

out those thoughts, but I didn't believe a word of it. Internally, I was

laughing at these foolish ideas. This meditation taught me that the things I

was saying about my self were lies.

> >

> > Peace, Love & Light, Sukhmani

> >

November 1, 2001

Hi Sukhmani aka Dana,

I concur with your process/struggle. I wake up and often begin

becoming overwhelmed and feeling like I don't have choices. This morning

I saw this viscous cycle beginning and I sat straight up and beginning