Meditation, eh? I like the woo-woo. Yoga is the combination of the breath, the focus, and the gaze. It's for the cultivation of self-control, both the kind where you do less of what you don't want to do as well as the kind where you do more of what you tell yourself to do. I used to complain when I would stop to eat or sleep in the middle of a project. I'd say, "aggravating demanding body, doesn't it know it's here to serve me, not the other way around?". I like Richard Freeman's Ashtanga yoga, where the meditation is in the vinyassa, in the movement. I'm sure there's the same meditation within judo, tai chi, etc..
I'm not sure but from what I'm reading maybe he's not trying to calm, maybe he likes the woo-woo and wants to sharpen his focus. Tell him a psychic told me "we're always time traveling. It's just we usually do only going forward in slow motion. You should consciously focus on time traveling backwards by remembering. Just hold onto your memories a few seconds longer, whenever they happen. Try to see the details in your memory of your surroundings a littl more clearly."
And then there's something else they're selling on the Internet called "remote viewing". Supposedly it's real, and the guvament uses it, yeah, whatever. They had a class at the omega college in NY, I just couldn't go at the time. I think it would use the same part of the brain that you visualize what you read with. Like they always tell the kids, "a good reader can see movies of what thy're reading in their head.
On one hand if this kind of fun and nonsense can help him sharpen his memory recall and become a little more observant of paying attention to details o er time, that's great. On the other hand I think many of us want to be a little less different or a little more normal, I don't think this type of spiritual enhancement meditations will help much.
Hey Grinnity, I love Cesar Milan. I've just started watching his show all the time. I was going to post the other day that he taught a girl to walk her dog by making his obedience lessons over the top exciting. He told her to make dog's memory of training day be at least as intense as the dogs memory of it's trauma. It reminded me of the nurtured heart, making sure you feed your child more energy when they're having a good day than you give them when they're having a bad day. I laughed and didn't post it because, well, I compared a kid to a dog. No, no, I mean Cesar Milan's stuff is good and resonates with a part our nature too. Like he says don't treat a dog like a person, that's not fair. It confuses them. I was thinking about something I heard long ago about people having an animal and an angel mind. I compared that to establishing habits in our animal mind so that our higher order thinking can stay in the clouds while our feet are on autopilot.
