Question for meditators
For most people, the first 10-15 minutes of meditation are a cavalcade of negative internal monologues, twitches, and itching. Only after this does the mind begin to settle down, the waters calm, and a sense of peace emerge.
Those of you who have attempted meditation AND found your way through the noise to a peaceful place:
1) what noise did your head throw at you?
2) how did you work your way through it?
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What works for me is fast repeating a word, sentence or phrase in my head, you can call it mantra but that word does itself a disservice from being overused. Since I practice the advanced autogenic training, the depth is often some aspect of myself I want to improve upon. Anyway, the deeper the meaning, the better. Also, maybe even more important than the depth of the concept is rate of repeating. The faster it is, the less chance mind has to stray away to its usual train of associations so it makes it still pretty quick. At least in initial phase, after a while you can leave the brain on autopilot in the "shadow" state of mind, once you get there.