It’s Metaphysical Monday! As we continue our series on meditation tips, today we would like to discuss the importance of asking questions during your meditation.
This sounds like such a simple and obvious idea, but it’s so easy to forget to do this! The reason why it’s difficult to remember to do this is when we are in meditation we are in a shifted space and aren’t always thinking logically. It makes sense to your linear brain to ask things, but meditation is much more heart-centred than brain-centred so you aren’t as connected to the part of you that would think to ask questions.
如果你是冥想者，你已經知道有些時候你會經歷一些讓你吃驚的事情，或者當你第一次經歷它們時沒有什麼意義。我記得有一次，我正在教的一個班級的一個學生從冥想中走出來，她說她看到了一場龍捲風，上面長著睫毛，想知道這是什麼意思。我不知道！我鼓勵她回到她的冥想中去提問，雖然我不記得這對她意味著什麼，但她確實得到了一個對她來說有意義的答案。雖然一些象徵意義非常具體，但您經常會在冥想中看到事物，因為它們與您和您的旅程相關。弄清楚的方法是問。
If you are a meditator, you already know there are times where you will experience things that surprise you or make little sense when you first experience them. I remember one time a student in a class I was teaching came out of meditation and said she had seen a tornado with eyelashes in it and wanted to know what it meant. I had no idea! I encouraged her to go back into her meditation and ask and while I can’t remember exactly what it meant for her, she did get an answer that made sense to her. While some symbolism has very specific meanings, you will often see things in meditation because they are pertinent to you and your journey. The way to figure it out is to ask.
訓練自己記住，當事情看起來特別令人困惑或神秘時，要記得就你的經歷提出問題，這將使你的冥想更上一層樓。這就是你如何開始在你的冥想狀態下沿著更深層次的學習路徑前進，並擁有真正深刻的體驗。因此，下次在您的冥想中發生一些奇怪或有趣的事情時，將其用作提問的提示。這就是您將冥想轉變為更具互動性的方式。
Training yourself to remember to ask questions about your experiences as soon as something seems particularly confusing or mysterious will take your meditations to the next level. That is how you start moving down deeper paths of learning within your meditative state and having really profound experiences. So the next time something strange or interesting happens in your meditation, use that as a cue to ask questions. This is how you shift your meditations into being more interactive.
那麼，如果您在冥想期間有一種體驗，並且在您出來後意識到您真的應該問問它怎麼辦？沒問題！回到你的冥想中去問。你總是可以讓自己回到你有經驗時的狀態。在冥想方面，不會錯過任何機會。
So what if you had an experience during your meditation and you realize after you have come out that you really should have asked about it? No problem! Go back into your meditation and ask. You can always send yourself right back to where you were when you had the experience. There are no missed opportunities when it comes to meditation.
我強烈建議您充分利用冥想的另一件事是寫下您特別感興趣的任何經歷。我們總是認為我們會記住，但現實是冥想很像夢。除非發生真正意義深遠的事情，否則如果我們不立即將它們寫下來，它們將在一天結束時從我們的意識中消失。
The other thing I highly recommend to get the most out of your meditations is to write down any experiences that were particularly interesting to you. We always think we’ll remember but the reality is meditations are much like dreams. Unless something really profound happens, if we don’t write them down right away they’ll be gone from our awareness by the end of the day.
你的冥想練習可以變得不僅僅是一個接受和任由你所得到的一切的過程。您可以轉變為一種美妙的學習和探索實踐，以多種方式支持您的康復、成長和擴展。我希望我們過去幾週的冥想技巧能幫助您加深練習，成為對您更有益、更快樂的事情。
Your meditation practice can become so much more than just a process of receiving and being at the mercy of whatever you get. You can shift into a wonderful practice of learning and exploring that supports your healing, growth, and expansion in so many ways. I hope our meditation tips over the past few weeks help you deepen your practice into something that is even more beneficial and joyful for you.
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