A trick I need to keep the concentration.

Thank you.

Hello,

I think, Swetha should keep concentrating on the flower the image of which you have seen. You have said it right. It is pretty difficult to NOT to think.

I show a bright light some months ago. After that it has faded. I learned that it is the beginning of effects when you see nice objects, light and such. Persistence is the key in meditation which becomes difficult to maintain sometimes.

I have also learned that one must have the ability to maintain the back, spine, neck and head in straight line. If one can maintain that, benefits of meditation can be obtained even by a beginner with persistence.


Regards,
Ajoy

don't keep concentration while ur on meditation... why? because on concentration ur brain wave turns to beta wave... what u need is alpha wave that u get from relaxation

i suggest for the beginner to do relaxation first before starting meditation

Meditation literally means....to think upon.  It does have anything to do with 'stopping' the mind.  After all, the brain, the seat of the mind, has electrical waves crossing it constantly when we are alive.  If we stopped them, we would be dead.  

When the monkey mind (the one that climbs and swings from all kinds of places, just when you think it is getting quiet) starts to disrupt your concentration - return the mind to your scene of peace and blow a gentle breeze - thought in, blow, thought out.  It helps to know we do not stop the activity of the mind.

Update:

No more eratic images..   actually I get nothing anymore.
The images are extremely faint and hard to figure out..

Maybe I'm pre-occupying the mind now, and not relaxed

Wish the vivid images would come back