First, thanks to Marisa for your answer. This post will incorporate my comments/questions from your reply.
So, as you said, I really see that one has to experiment - don't think you'll break your brain
And I have somewhat changed my goal at the moment; goal is to get comfortable with the sessions in this respect: continue working on relaxing my eyes (making progress for sure) and clear my mind of extraneous thoughts during the session - basically float with the session (such as tranquility sessions). Think you refer to this as 'shutting off the mind'. Once I have this down I'll move on to practical applications I'm interest in such as learning, peak perf, and the goal visualization sessions.
My day 2 experience was quite impressive. This was a dojo day; had to work on the house and felt like crap; didn't get enough sleep. So prior to going to the dojo I ran a short meditation session followed by a short peak perf session. I was like really blown away by the results (which BTW took about 30 mins to really take effect). I could not believe how alert my mind was. Kinda weird sensation - was still bit physically tired but mind was sharp and focused. Now that's results! And this happened on day 2 during what I consider not at all perfect sessions (wandering mind).
Regarding what I want to know - you're doing a good job at answering MY questions. I really don't think I can ask you, well how do I start - am using my intuition to select sessions; other people might do something else. What I can say right now that would be useful to anyone is this (please comment on it):
- Experiment
- Focus on relaxing (don't think)
- Newbies stick with shorter sessions
Have already downloaded the freq chart; still have to digest this info. RE: your comment on attention deficit, that's not me for sure - so focused on tasks I annoy people but understand your comment. With the ultimate goal of shutting down the mind at will I do plan on working with the relaxing type of sessions for sure, though after this peak perf experience I might be addicted to that series.
I am pleased with progress so far; regarding your comment on 'analyzing to hard' well time permits me to only say is you have no idea how relevant and funny that comment was to me.
In closing, any comments, hints, suggestions vis-a-vis my approach to shutting down the mind would be helpful.
P.S. There is one thing I really find annoying during a sessions - background noise (dog barks, frogs croak, birds chirp, etc.) any advice on better headphones would be useful - noise cancelling type maybe ($$$$ !!!) - better sound insulated type ($$) - specifics if you got them.
Thanks
GG
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