~*~Void meditation~*~

The key to my meditation method is the perfect visualization of a container with a lock or latch that holds it closed. Use a container you know immensely well, like you know how it feels inside and outside(to the point of being able to imagine the textures) you know how it looks and any flaws chips or cracks in its construction, you just know every little detail that makes up this container. I have found that every person has at least one container they can do this with to perfection(I use a big green wm trash receptacle myself.)

once you have this perfect image of a container this method of meditation has a variable element depending on how you think I think in text so I convert thoughts and feelings into words but for others I have taught pictures or imagined vocalizations of the words depending on how they think. Keep this in mind as I describe my method

I take my perfect image of the container and imagine it opening. once I have the image of the open perfect container I begin pouring my thoughts feelings and physical sensations into it, the longer you spend doing this and the more specific you get the more effective this form of meditation gets. A side note as you practice my meditation method this gets easier to finish and happens faster. after 15! years of practice in my form of meditation I can accomplish total emptiness in seconds.

once you have every little thought feeling and sensation you can track down in the container close the container and latch or lock it and "push" or "place" it off to the side in your mind. with this completed you will be left with a beautifully blank mind(feels like pure bliss everytime I do it even after 15 years) with the blank state of mind in place I started out by counting 1,2,3,4 breath in count 1,2,3,4 (this part is important and increases the effectiveness of this method at least three-fold as you advance)after you breathe out and before you breath in make another count 1,2,3,4. doing this counting method helps you keep absolutely blank and slows your heart rate. as you get comfortable with counting to 4 on every breath move the whole method to counting to 8 then to 12 then to 16 etc.( I myself am up to 30 and at 30 I have been able to set off heartrate monitors at the hospital with them thinking I was going into arrest and sending in a nurse.)

After you reach a 12 count comfortably you can build a setting in your mind to meditate in. I use the image of sitting at the base of a giant oak tree with a river flowing around it on each side. with the setting in place continue counting in the newly built setting. Once you can maintain the image without disturbing the box my meditation method gets so zen it's too amazing for words

As a final thought, this meditation evolves more the more you use it exactly as the user's technique improves and even after practicing it for a full 15 years I have found NO upper limit and I'm pretty sure there isn't one.

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