Hi i am new to all of this, but my story and question is this.
A few years ago, I was at a christmas parade and this fella came up to me and said you are a very old soul, and I basically said, yes quite a few people have said that to me before, to cut a long story short he said that i should look into my phsyic ability??? Anyway i asked him how he suggested that i get rid of all the baggage (or words to that effect) he said imagine it in a basket and imagine it away.  i tried... weirdest thing was that i saw him about 3 days later hitchhiking.  Any advice to free my mind??

We are never free of thought and we build upon all experiences that the mind stores.  To be free of any thought is to be dead in the body.

Meditation means...to think upon.  That means a re-training, or re-focusing of the energies of mind to produce a place of peace and calm....in which you can rest and refresh as you attune to spirit (from within) to spirit without (spirit guide) for any message to self or others.

So are you suggesing meditation?  And if so, what would be a good method to use.  I have tried in the past, and I heard some strange popping noises, sort of sounded like someone flicking  a metal tin with a spoon (and no, no one else was in the house).  It was quite an offensive noise and extremely loud...any thoughts?

Read the notes in my blog on meditation.

May I also suggest....random thoughts continue to fly into our minds.  I suggest a gentle breeze to allow them to enter and then be blown away.  They will return as needed.

With sound...make a suggestion in the mind that during the meditation you will only hear the music your are playing.  In that is many restrictions from traffic sounds to what you experienced.

Note:  Meditation is about changing our consciousness from the conscious to the alpha state - slightly altered but still alert - to listen with the spirit within.

Thanks spirt talk, I will try the ideas that you have, I actually think that they make perfect sense.

Cheers