Meditation Technique - The Gatekeeper After years of trying out different meditation techniques I learned the following technique from listening to a Ram Dass lecture series on CD called “Spiritual Awakening.” As soon as I heard it, it appealed to me because I liked its use of breath, but more than that, I liked the introduction of the gatekeeper. It really helped me to zero in on my breath and it goes like this:
Learning The Gatekeeper Meditation, (or any meditation 114 HEALING from the INSIDE OUT and the OUTSIDE IN technique that works for you) is a crucial tool for expanding your awareness. Until you learn to “cultivate the witness” which means to view your thoughts from a witness perspective, you will not necessarily be conscious of what you are thinking. Without you even knowing it, at times you will be a slave to thoughts that run you wily-nilly all over the place. From where you’ve got to be, to what you’ve got to do, it is easy to get lost in what author and meditation teacher Stephen Levine calls “The Under-dream,” that constant stream of thoughts that keeps, at least, a portion of your mind engaged at all times. The fact is, the thinking mind likes to think and we are addicted to listening to it. Unfortunately, we become lost in the under-dream and don’t realize that we are diluting our perceptions of the present moment because we are so distracted. |