Meditation Vs Writing

[Precious]

I discovered what good meditation can be some weeks ago, and how many things you can discover meditating. But after reading some books I've saw that those people are doing some kind of meditation in writing, explaining some things in writing. I also use meditation for a better understanding of how things work, and I'm wondering witch is better, meditaion to analyze your thoughts or writing down your thoughts ?

Thanks

Waiting your opinion.

[Sunnybayes]

Originally Posted by Precious

I discovered what good meditation can be some weeks ago, and how many things you can discover meditating. But after reading some books I've saw that those people are doing some kind of meditation in writing, explaining some things in writing. I also use meditation for a better understanding of how things work, and I'm wondering witch is better, meditaion to analyze your thoughts or writing down your thoughts ?

Thanks

Waiting your opinion.

Use both.

When you get stuck with meditation then write everything down. When you feel overwhelmed that you've written too much and feel lost in a sea of information, then that's when you meditate to let your mind consolidate and summarize it all into intuition, and you'll find that when you look back at what you've written you'll just feel like "duh of course!!!". And then when the light bulb goes off "I finally get it.. WOW!!" (and you feel awesome that you've figured it out), then that just means that the higher level ideas are done cooking. Then a flood of inspiration will come in where you feel like you've got to write every thing down again before you forget it.

After you've written tons, summarize that information on a "cheat sheet" (like steve's 33 tips on productivity) and then use meditation to reflect on what you've written on that cheat sheet.

For those who have followed my framework in my signature (especially the post about "creativity is the key to personal development") this means:

You have tons of low order IRs written out on paper. You have raw feelings that you've written down over the course of a week or so. It might take you an hour to read through it all again so that you can let your mind build of the inspiration to make new higher order IRs.

Instead, you read through all you've written once and make a 1 page or so cheat sheet to consolidate that information. That way you can repeat all those low order IRs to your mind 100x faster.

Also meditation is just replaying the lower oder IRs to yourself internally.

This will make you form higher order IRs/Intuition so much faster.

[OlderWiser]

Yup, I recommend both. I use writing to record dreams and I find it very helpful in working out what the symbols mean and what the dream is telling me, and I've also recently taken to writing down some of the stuff I experience during meditation. A lot of what I envision or experience in meditation is stuff that, frankly, I'm not sure how to interpret, so I just write it down and know that eventually it will either make sense or it won't. When I write it down, I don't feel the need to keep revisiting it all the time and I can move on to other things.

So meditate, write, write about your meditations, meditate about your writings, do it all.

[Precious]

BTW - How much time do you spend daily meditating ?

[OlderWiser]

Depends. Sometimes only 20 minutes or so, but usually more. I try to go into at least a light alpha state several times during the day (I find this extremely helpful for stress management).

Finding time when I won't be interrupted and when nobody will need anything from me is challenging. I think if I had unlimited privacy and time, I'd meditate a lot more.

[Precious]

You made me curious.

What are some of topics you've mediated successful until now ?