How to Meditate Properly: Eyes, Music, Posture—What Really Makes a Difference

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationPosture and conditions for meditationSpiritual development and the spiritual pathSpirit

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• 00:00People ask a lot of questions about how meditation works. Someone left a comment under a Telegram post.Meditation · Spirit
• 01:21Why do it at all? What for? What do you want to get out of it? People talk a lot about doing triathlons, climbing mountains, or…Meditation · Friend / friends
• 02:54Does that make them more spiritual? Does it bring spirit into their system, help them understand or see more, make their life more vivid? What happens?Time · Meditation · Spirit
• 04:16I talk about this a lot on this channel, in meditations, in assignments, everywhere. My meditations and this channel have a particular purpose.Meditation · Expanded perception
• 06:13In those meditations, I sometimes do say that it is better to watch with your eyes closed or open.Spirit · Meditation
• 11:22Someone is working—programming, doing marketing, writing a book, or something else. They take off their headphones and say, “It is impossible to be in here.” What have they done?Meditation
• 15:49Spaces like that do exist in some form. For example, you can isolate yourself. There is a practice of being buried in the ground: people are covered with earth.Spirit · Meditation
• 17:31You have just identified something specific: the person is supposed to get a particular effect that is being sold. Yes. It is very important for each of us not to sell ourselves on something either.Meditation · Truth
• 22:46Why does it happen that way? Why do they do it? Why do they sometimes speak very quickly? I have videos or channels where I speak very quickly, and others where I speak slowly.Meditation
• 24:17Compared with any other event. Any moment, wherever you are: buying coffee, working at a computer, sitting down to rest, watching a show, talking with…Meditation

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• 01:36

  The most important thing in all these cases is always to answer for yourself why you are doing it. What is your goal?

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• 04:10

  So the most important question is always why you want to do it, why you want to practice.

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• 05:38

  This gives you a chance to understand more deeply why you need meditative states at all, why you need any of this, why you would be in a state of learning or expanded perception.

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• 06:45

  That is difficult to say. On the one hand, it seems we perceive through sight alone; on the other, our activity, thoughts, knowledge, and experience influence us at the same time.

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• 17:43

  Even when nobody else is selling it to us, we sometimes want to sell it to ourselves. Instead, understand why you are really doing it, what effect it has, and what is actually happening.

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• 19:18

  This is a useful addition to the answer about why I sometimes tell people to close or open their eyes during my meditations, or to sit in a room without other people.

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• 25:08

  You can spend an hour in meditative states every day while fading in terms of the spiritual world.

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• 29:59

  So that as your spiritual being experiences various spiritual states, your entire psychophysical system participates in that learning.

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• 32:53

  That is why I say when to limit perception in my meditations and when not to.

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• 34:30

  Why would the ego need silence or the possibility of a person gaining control of their life and truly understanding the whole system?

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