While our conscious mind is always rationalizing, judging, fearing, habiting, addicting, impulsing, worrying, and stressing - our deep mind is always below, cool, calm, and collected. While our conscious mind always wants to be in some other time or place, our deep mind stays present, forever anchored in the here and now. ![]() Instead of jumping from thought to thought to thought, our subconscious mind and unconscious mind think slowly, quietly, and deeply. While our rush rush rush, pull pull pull conscious mind sits above the surface chattering away, our deep mind is always below - seeing, hearing, feeling, and taking it all in. Known as the "subconscious" mind and the "unconscious" mind, it’s these deep layers that hold the vast majority of our potential. It’s our "tip of the iceberg" conscious mind that generates this kind of "noisy" thought to thought to thought thinking, and it’s from this superficial level of mind that we spend most of our day.īut under the surface, the mind goes much deeper. Now you may have noticed that the mind likes to chatter away, whether it’s replaying something we said last night, worrying about our next mortgage payment, having an imaginary argument, fretting over how we look, planning what to eat for dinner, stressing about that big work deadline, or whatever else the busybody mind thinks over the course of its estimated 70,000 thoughts per day. So you may be wondering, what is meditation, how does it work, and how do I do it? Before we dive into proper technique, perhaps it’s best to understand a little bit about the multilayered nature of the human mind and how meditation fits into the picture. If you already have a proven meditation technique then we encourage you to combine / enhance it with our audio program. ![]() Note: While we have outlined one basic form of meditation here, our program is effectively "technique neutral" since it uses sound to deepen the meditative state (whether you are doing focused attention, mindfulness, resting awareness, visualization, etc).
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