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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
Try meditating with your eyes open. If thoughts come, don't fight them or try to ignore them, just focus on counting your exhalations (up to ten, and then start over from one). After that, try counting your inhalations. Supposedly, this helps you to learn to concentrate without exerting a great deal of effort, and eventually you'll no longer need to count breaths.
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concentrate on what, my breath? i'll give it a shot but so far i find my breath to be pretty uninteresting.
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Try to remember that the goal isn't to experience a "vision", but rather to feel what it is like to exist without any mental outflows (i.e. as matter rather than a living being).
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mental outflows = thoughts?
edit - but yea my intention wasn't to experience a vision. i've just seen stuff saying there are benefits to meditation and i wanted to give it a fair try