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# Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH
- From: "Alan" <fish_studios@...>
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:10:30 -0000
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    Dear Maria:

    For me, I think what helped the most was the one-pointedness
    exercise. Instead of taking a topic of my choosing, I would take the
    first thought that came to mind. So, sometimes, I would sit for a
    minute without any thoughts until one came.

    But I think the most effective thing that really gave a break
    through, was letting go. At first I thought of the exercise as one
    where I was struggling against my mind to keep out all thoughts, to
    suppress them. Whereas, it's really about achieving a state of
    mind. You are trying to elevate your mind to a different wave length
    than what it normally operates on. One where you are still. Truly
    still.

    So to help, I started to focus on my breathing when I started the
    exercise. Close my eyes, relax my body, and concentrate on my
    breathing. Deliberate, but normal breaths. Then after a while, when
    I felt relaxed, I let that concentration go and just left my mind
    OPEN rather than CLOSED. I think that's the key. Don't think so
    much that the exercise is about shutting out thoughts, but rather
    that its about letting go of thoughts. It's not a struggle, but a
    (what's the best word...) peaceful exercise. Now, after performing
    the exercise, I feel relaxed and mentally rejuvinated.

    Of course, this approach can be applied to all of the exercises, but
    I found it to be almost a requirement to perform this one correctly.

    Something else that might help as well: I do my studies in my room
    where the computer is running, so there is a slight background hum
    from the fans that are running in the computer. Blocked out mostly
    during my mundane daily work, I really noticed it when I started to
    do this exercise. I also found out that it helped me to have
    something like that there to focus on, as it allowed me to sort of
    test if I had relaxed enough. If during the exercise, I could hear
    the fans, then I wasn't performing it correctly. Because when I did
    it correctly, I couldn't hear the fans.

    Just some things to chew on I suppose. All will go well.

    -- Alan

    --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "mariaclearwater333"
    <mariaclearwater333@y...> wrote:
    > Hi everybody
    > I am new to this group. For a very long time now (years), I am
    > working every day very diligently on chapter 1 and wasn't able to
    > stay for 10 minutes without thoughts. I feel quite desperate and am
    > reaching out for your help. What helped you? How did you get to the
    > place of having control over your thoughts?
    >
    > I am very thankful for specific help: Maria

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