Dali’s Mediation Technique
By Brian C
So, today’s article will describe a type of restful meditation which helps with creative thinking. This power napping (if you will) was practiced by creative men like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and most famously Salvador Dali. It is even thought Aristotle himself practiced a form of this restful mindfulness meditation.
These types of naps allow for the mind to enter into a lucid state of being, and allows us to tap in to the meditative conscientious to allow for greater creativity. Some might even argue that it allows the practitioner to enter in to higher dimensions of being. After all Edgar Cacye was called the sleeping psychic. But whether or not this allows one to enter into an extra dimensional state of being, is very much a point of debate.
The MEDITATION of INSPIRATION
It is this kind of short meditation of about 10-20 minutes, which bring inspiration into the mind. This kind of nap, or restful mediation can be called hypnagogia. To paraphrase, hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep. During this transition, the mind crosses the threshold of consciousness into lucid thought and dreaming.
The meditation experience can essentially be described as “dreaming while awake.” Hypnagogia can be experienced both when you’re transitioning to falling asleep, and again when passing through Stage 1 on the way to waking up (it is then called hypnopompia).
In this state, you are not in a full dream state, you are aware of everything that is around you. You are more in an altered state of being, a meditative state of being. You are allowing thoughts to enter into your mind but you’re not holding on to them. The thoughts are like the wind passing through the leaves on the trees. It is explained this way “the sleeper may be aware of sounds and conversations, but feels unwilling, rather than unable to respond to them.”
THE TECHNIQUE of DALI and EINSTEIN
Now, if Einstein or Dali were looking for inspiration for a topic, they would visualize it and maybe write a sentence or two on a pad to bring the topic to focus. Then they would do the following to enter the meditative state:
- Place a plate upside down underneath the arm of their armchair
- Have a heavy object, such as a pencil, spoon, (Einstein) key (Dali)
- Place notebook, and writing utensil nearby
- Bony arm chair (Dali preferred the Spanish style) head leaned back, with your hands oextended over the arms and the heavy object held by your pointer finger and thumb.
- As you fall deeper into sleep, your grip relaxes and the object falls from your hand and hits the plate making a clang sound, bringing you to full alertness.
- You quickly record your thoughts, feelings, inspirations, on the notebook you place previously so that you can reflect upon them later on the next pages.
It was this process which Einstein would follow in his deep sits, while considering the nature of gravity and while fixing the general theory of relativity. It is important to record what your impressions are, that your guides are giving you.
MODERN TECHNIQUES
Nowadays, you can use a recorder which might be on your smart phone. Remember these impressions maybe highly symbolic, clouds, colors, objects. Don’t try to try and make sense of them right away. There will be time to make associations after everything is recorded. And if you have a feeling, record that too. This will help give you insight into the situation as well. Then you can ask yourself the questions “What analogies can I make?” “What associations can I make?” “How do the images represent the solution to the problem?” and so on?
Try this for yourself when contemplating any situation, or simply for relaxation to see what comes to you. You will nearly always find some interesting and revealing results!
This article written especially for you by Brian C. Brian is a natural psychic who works regularly with Psychic Today. He is available in person by phone, so why not contact him for your own enlightening reading? https://psychictoday.uk/reader/6648/brian-c