elbowgrease wrote:
Don't try to clear your mind.
You won't.
Focus on something specific. And be ok with it when your mind wanders.
Then focus on the specific thing again.
Try to feel your bones. Then the space between your bones. Then your breathe in the space between your bones. Then your breathe in the space between your bones being what moves your body.
Try to feel acupressure point k1 (roughly).
Think about what a bird thinks about while it stands on a post.
Franz Bardon actually had something that I thought was good for this at the beginning of IIH step 1 - ie. watching your thoughts flow over like an independent third party. That process may work differently for everyone but for me the act of looking directly at them caused them to halt.
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