Board Thread:New on PsiWiki/@comment-93.235.79.11-20190328172735/@comment-29958896-20190417001143

So, if I get it right, you do breath awareness meditation. I've done that in the past... without any success. Now I'm trying to learn it properly (The way described by Ajahn Brahm - he describes 6 steps, to go to even deeper states so I'll reduce it for you to the relevant part).

1st: Give up past and futre... Meaning, keep your focus in the pressent, don't let your mind drift to memories of the past or think about the future.

2nd: Stop the innver voice... Stop it from talking to you, with you and for you. Hit the mute button, if you know what I mean.

3rd: Experiense breathing again... Focus again only on the breath as you do it now.

It is important that you DO NOT rush through the first two steps. In the first two steps you learn how to stop your mind from wandering off. So take your time with it... I'm still on the 1st step ;-)

If you practice too often you strain your self too much and lose the realxing part. Give your self some time of and maybe do some grounding practice.

As for why it is not uncommon, I'd have to guess but I think that wehn people see it actually works, they want more... bigger effects and so on. Things they're not ready yet. So they fail again. It's like with the meditation (above), you have to do it step by step. Don't rush through anything. Take it slowly.

I'm happy, I can help.