I started single pointed meditation 2weeks ago from your advise and I've seen a massive change already. I was doing guided meditations before and I wasn't seeing much of a change in myself. Since doing this I know I have changed because I can now control my emotions so much that I'm no longer getting affected by others negative energy and this was a big deal for me so I want to thank you so much for bringing this type of meditation to light for me and everyone else who watches your videos. I will continue to follow you and ur guidance. Thank you so much Ben x
Great video!! Loved the breaking down of it all. I healed myself from illness and pain with meditation. I was bedridden for 9 years after meningitis and meditation was the only thing that helped me. I meditated every day for years doing every kind of meditation. I love the single point meditation. Thank you!
This is just what I needed to hear. I’ve been meditating daily for around 8 years now, and just as I was trying to step it up and learn a new, and somewhat tricky technique I’ve been all over the place and I realise now that it’s my ego kicking and screaming. Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at me! Just goes to show you can never underestimate the ego, even if you think you’ve mastered its distraction techniques. It’s always lurking 😂 Thanks Ben, this has been truly helpful and I’m deeply grateful.
Thank you so much for this video! I needed this explanation. I laughed through half of this, it describes my meditation attempts to a T. I have tried multiple times through my life to meditate and my ego always swept me away to say "no, not this again". I'm a newbie to all of this & I am 71 yrs old. I will keep on.
I’ve never seen a video on meditation that’s explained it so clearly and beautifully. Sometimes it feels like I’m not progressing and am not ‘good’ at meditation and should not bother. This video has totally changed that. It’s given me the clarity and patience I need to progress. Thank you Ben
Ben, you're amazing! Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling to get into meditation this morning, and this video has helped me! Have an awesome day ❤
I'm so glad you offered other focus points besides breathing. Many people have breathing anxiety and the myriad of meditation and relaxation techniques out there either mainly use the breath or at least incorporate it as a necessary component. I do much better with body sensation, and then choose one area, such as the left thumb, to use as a focus point. Sometimes also use the eyes to gaze at a point.
I’ve been struggling with my typical form of meditation (with eyes closed) lately. This week my higher self’s been hinting one-point-focus kind here and there. Now this video added up to a whole bunch of synchronicities Thank you!!! The only concern I have with meditating with eyes open is the thing that after a couple of minutes (even with blinking) eyes get tired and it becomes harder to keep them open 🫤🫤 Still it’s so fun to keep trying and learning 🤗🤗
I have been shown time and time again lately too (probably from higher self) single point open eye focus. By accident I actually did this a year ago by staring at insense smoke in a full moon circle I opened for myself. It was powerful. Saying that I do agree with doing the “harder” mediation as to the point of letting go/controlling the ego.
You are probably going to have a vision adding candle gazing to your meditation. Candle gazing...closing the eyes and watching the after glow with your third eye shows us how relaxing the physical eyes allows us to maintain the after glow image of third eye but grasping/focusing the physical eyes on it makes it fade away....just like a vision of the Astral light frequency...abode of angels.
Ben, thank you for sharing this priceless detailed knowledge. I have experienced also, It is the consistency and not the length of time during meditation. I have also experienced that any thing or action put forth with 100% heart, a god job is always achieved. So, what about combining these two? The heart (while feeling grateful) and the spirit for increasing growth. I don't know whats up with this ego that i have going on, but it feels like a Murphy's Law kind of a thing somtime. Being dedicated like you have been so long, you are such an inspiration to everyone. I'm learning so much in such little time, so thanks again Ben
This helps me be able to teach others. When I say "stop my thoughts" or "stopping thoughts" I should just say "single-pointed meditation." Maybe that is easier to understand. People might struggle to know how to "stop thoughts" but have an easy time grasping "single pointed focus."
Thank you for this video! Much appreciated. I've been meditating almost daily for a year now, but I have not spent enough time in single-pointed meditation. Now, I will include it in my daily meditation. 🙏
Great explanation this video has really helped me every time i meditate I always get itch I have to scratch thought it was just me going crazy it’s really hard to ignore
Fantastic video! You have taught me all of this previously, but to see it all summed up so clearly is extremely helpful for me, thank you. When my frustration rises up, and it will, I will come back to this video.
In a short formula Ego dwells your cognitive mental matrix Your understanding You are unable to separate the Ego from the cognition Because you define and experience the world via this matrix The only way out is to get to meditate In meditation you'll have awareness to see beyond the cognitive matrix Observing the Ego Being free from it Opposite to expectations You won't be vulnerable You''ll juggle around the Ego with an ease Being in this awareness is not an effort, rather an alternative existence Yes, exactly an Existence, and not a shrink of survival In such orbit, as far as it's in balance You do start communicate with others with love Now the moving engine is not the Ego It is the Love trying to express Being in Love is not unstable altitude As far as it is in balance But beware! This is the backdoor of the Ego Trying to keep your orbit in balance, you Ego will emerge with advises Maintaining the balance in Love You should maintain the balance not by asking your Ego how to keep the balance subtle Instead you should go meditate to maintain the balance In the first occasion, asking yourself how to maintain the balance Ego will emerge In the second occasion, when start meditate your balance will got revolve So in conclusion Never ask your self whatever Instead find all the answers in awareness And that happens not when ask your Ego, but when start to meditate
Good that Ben. Just started meditation and seen this vid. Very articulate explained and the visuals helped me get my head understandimng it all. Thanks mate keep em comin. subscribed.
Another great video Short and simplified Motivating Even gladlier exposing the Ego To all feeling a bit concerned with their Ego The people mistakenly understand the Ego, as their right to exist, to fight, to have the right to exist. Constantly moving back and forth within blame and gain The matter with Ego is not opposing your needs On the first place exactly the Ego gave you idea of needs, and how to achieve these Once having your spiritual experience you will see exactly your place in the world. Having that you'll be perfectly centered Then will see the Ego as the old primitive instrument of the blind person searching its way. Once having the spiritual experience You'll find even furtherer that the Ego is the constant accompaniment chattering in your head moving you back and forth in your daily life You'll see how much energy you are wasting in the constant unnecessary play In this way you just remove the Ego as an obsolete instrument Regarding the psychosis Triggering the psychosis shows you how much of Your Ego is being hidden and latent In a sense such a bad experience is a good, helping you purging you from the Ego As is with the vomiting cleansing your body Vomiting you are cleansing the food path Psychosis is cleansing your mind from the Ego In both cases you have just letting it go Imagine trying to vomit by stopping you do so - probably you"l suffocate and pass away Now imagine having psychosis trying to get a grip on Reality by listening the Ego You just have to let go But also, let me explain what the Psychosis is This is the difference between listening the Ego and hearing the Ego On your normal daily life you are listening separating the Ego from the ideas it suggests On your ecstatic Psychosis when you are overcharged, when you opened fully aware, you are no any longer able to distinguish back and forth, between ideas, All becomes one, The psychosis kicks in when you start hearing the Ego. You hear it, but you are unable to listen. Because channeling to listen means your attention put on a certain spot, while hearing is the Ego is not being focused, neither you are able to focus, The hearing penetrates you entirely, all cognitive constructs demolishing, not able how to prioritize your thoughts. Let go is the most valuable advise one could ever give to the one in trouble
It's quite difficult with a flame, I found, Ben? An incense stick or a dot on a wall is better as the flame can move with drafts, and is distracting. A very powerful technique, undeniable, the way your eyes react is similar to an aperture on a photographic lense, your outer sight or field of view diminishes .I had my first 'experience' using this. Brilliant.
Amazing video, goes right into my top-3 this year! A lot of good information explained in an easy to understand way. From now on I think I have to tools to improve the quality of my meditation, let's see what happens. :)
What I appreciate about your vids, Ben, is the simplicity and straightforwardness of your explanations. I am definitely one of those people who got so far and then get coming up against barriers. Thank you so much. Just out of interest, if the single-pointed focus is the nostril, are you breathing in and out through it? If so, is the focus on both the inhale and exhale sensations, which will be slightly different?
I think maybe the ego is simply the body’s preservation system and it’s not necessarily scheming to deter you from spiritual growth but rather exists as a less conscious biological process which is a necessary part of incarnating into a biological body. Perhaps it’s just a matter of taking your consciousness out of the thoughts which our brains naturally produce. I feel strongly that the ego is not its own entity with an agenda or a fear of losing its own existence.
I see it this way, also. I've never benefited from seeing and treating the ego like an almost personified enemy with a sinister agenda. Seems more like it originally had a valuable "job" within a support network, but that support network seemingly diminished to where the ego operating system enlarged, but not because it originally wanted that to happen to it.
If I place an object or an effigy to focus my concentration upon, does it mean that I don't have to close my eyes and will keeping my eyes open be an effective means to meditate.
Spirituality speaking, how does this single focus meditation benefit me. Will i connect with my guides and angels better. Will i receive higher vibrational thoughts or move towards ascension. Or is it just to calm and clear my mind so i can focus on simpler thoughts.
I've been seeing 11s for over 15 years now. At the start I found them to be re-assure. Now unfortunately they're equal parts frighting and frustrating. If they are benevolent in some way I've failed to find it.
This is interesting, I have started to notice when I am doing anapana meditation I can now focus on the breath fairly consistently but I am aware there is chatter in the background. It's almost like the voices are still there but the volume is dialled right down to a point where I can't make out what they are saying. I am aware there is still noise going on but I am not involved in it if that makes sense?
Ego is a terrible thing A survival mechanism mirroring all day long people's expectations in our interactions Having limited and primitive people around you have to have a language with them an attitude shown Instead of trying to explain using the primitive language Better jump directly being up there Dropping off the Ego is even easier than expected As far as you don't try to explain it Trying to explain you enter in the blood bath with Ego interaction In order to untangle it in others You all yourself enter the mental hell of Ego owner, trying to make love and explain it simply. Efforts to help Being all dedicated you give yourself all Just to show what you see To share the light with others There's no bigger joy than that That is the motivation that always put you on track even after biggest exhaustion On the other hand We build Ego castle to be protected To have a place to charge our energy, discharging in the comfort zone We call that life And as far as we are stable, we don't search an option While the one not being able to build own castle tries searching for alternatives There are myriads of alternatives Hidden and Latent The issue comes when we try to "define" these as path with all its rounds The more we define, the less possible to implement Because all the time what does define is the Ego, and you nourishing it letting it to lead you Every time you trust it Yet you are still half sank in the mud Believing the life is hard to follow "But that means you're alive" To make a quantum shift in awareness without an Ego you have to change the orbit in a blink Without waking your Ego for advise
Sometimes when I am in deep meditation I get a feeling of fever. Today it was only a few seconds. One time it lasted several minutes. Impossible to finish my medition. I get pushed out. Have you ever had that fever like feeling during meditation?
People do it on daily basis without realizing it is meditation. For example during driving. Did you experience while driving that you passed away into paralysis being with your thoughts somewhere else and still driving safely? It is due to focusing on one point during driving. I am getting pissed of on our ancestors. We don't know ourselves at all. Human beings are like talking monkeys while we already can reach stars.
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I started single pointed meditation 2weeks ago from your advise and I've seen a massive change already. I was doing guided meditations before and I wasn't seeing much of a change in myself. Since doing this I know I have changed because I can now control my emotions so much that I'm no longer getting affected by others negative energy and this was a big deal for me so I want to thank you so much for bringing this type of meditation to light for me and everyone else who watches your videos.
I will continue to follow you and ur guidance.
Thank you so much Ben x
Hollie, im curious have you noticed any difference in your ability to focus/concentrate? Also how long do you usually do your meditations?
Great video!! Loved the breaking down of it all. I healed myself from illness and pain with meditation. I was bedridden for 9 years after meningitis and meditation was the only thing that helped me. I meditated every day for years doing every kind of meditation. I love the single point meditation. Thank you!
Awesome! ❤
This is just what I needed to hear. I’ve been meditating daily for around 8 years now, and just as I was trying to step it up and learn a new, and somewhat tricky technique I’ve been all over the place and I realise now that it’s my ego kicking and screaming. Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at me!
Just goes to show you can never underestimate the ego, even if you think you’ve mastered its distraction techniques. It’s always lurking 😂 Thanks Ben, this has been truly helpful and I’m deeply grateful.
Thank you so much for this video! I needed this explanation. I laughed through half of this, it describes my meditation attempts to a T. I have tried multiple times through my life to meditate and my ego always swept me away to say "no, not this again". I'm a newbie to all of this & I am 71 yrs old. I will keep on.
I’ve never seen a video on meditation that’s explained it so clearly and beautifully. Sometimes it feels like I’m not progressing and am not ‘good’ at meditation and should not bother. This video has totally changed that. It’s given me the clarity and patience I need to progress. Thank you Ben
Ben, you're amazing! Thank you so much for this video. I was struggling to get into meditation this morning, and this video has helped me! Have an awesome day ❤
wouuw how plain and precise you tell about the meditation, I am grateful for you. Thank you Ben. Nobody tells that simple.
I'm so glad you offered other focus points besides breathing. Many people have breathing anxiety and the myriad of meditation and relaxation techniques out there either mainly use the breath or at least incorporate it as a necessary component. I do much better with body sensation, and then choose one area, such as the left thumb, to use as a focus point. Sometimes also use the eyes to gaze at a point.
I’ve been struggling with my typical form of meditation (with eyes closed) lately. This week my higher self’s been hinting one-point-focus kind here and there. Now this video added up to a whole bunch of synchronicities
Thank you!!!
The only concern I have with meditating with eyes open is the thing that after a couple of minutes (even with blinking) eyes get tired and it becomes harder to keep them open 🫤🫤
Still it’s so fun to keep trying and learning 🤗🤗
I have been shown time and time again lately too (probably from higher self) single point open eye focus. By accident I actually did this a year ago by staring at insense smoke in a full moon circle I opened for myself. It was powerful.
Saying that I do agree with doing the “harder” mediation as to the point of letting go/controlling the ego.
You are probably going to have a vision adding candle gazing to your meditation. Candle gazing...closing the eyes and watching the after glow with your third eye shows us how relaxing the physical eyes allows us to maintain the after glow image of third eye but grasping/focusing the physical eyes on it makes it fade away....just like a vision of the Astral light frequency...abode of angels.
Ben, thank you for sharing this priceless detailed knowledge. I have experienced also, It is the consistency and not the length of time during meditation. I have also experienced that any thing or action put forth with 100% heart, a god job is always achieved. So, what about combining these two? The heart (while feeling grateful) and the spirit for increasing growth. I don't know whats up with this ego that i have going on, but it feels like a Murphy's Law kind of a thing somtime. Being dedicated like you have been so long, you are such an inspiration to everyone. I'm learning so much in such little time, so thanks again Ben
That psychosis argument was very important. Thank you.
This helps me be able to teach others. When I say "stop my thoughts" or "stopping thoughts" I should just say "single-pointed meditation." Maybe that is easier to understand. People might struggle to know how to "stop thoughts" but have an easy time grasping "single pointed focus."
Thank you for this video! Much appreciated. I've been meditating almost daily for a year now, but I have not spent enough time in single-pointed meditation. Now, I will include it in my daily meditation. 🙏
Thankyou Ben
Great explanation this video has really helped me every time i meditate I always get itch I have to scratch thought it was just me going crazy it’s really hard to ignore
Fantastic video! You have taught me all of this previously, but to see it all summed up so clearly is extremely helpful for me, thank you. When my frustration rises up, and it will, I will come back to this video.
In a short formula
Ego dwells your cognitive mental matrix
Your understanding
You are unable to separate the Ego from the cognition
Because you define and experience the world via this matrix
The only way out is to get to meditate
In meditation you'll have awareness to see beyond the cognitive matrix
Observing the Ego
Being free from it
Opposite to expectations
You won't be vulnerable
You''ll juggle around the Ego with an ease
Being in this awareness is not an effort,
rather an alternative existence
Yes, exactly an Existence, and not a shrink of survival
In such orbit, as far as it's in balance
You do start communicate with others with love
Now the moving engine is not the Ego
It is the Love trying to express
Being in Love is not unstable altitude
As far as it is in balance
But beware!
This is the backdoor of the Ego
Trying to keep your orbit in balance, you Ego will emerge with advises
Maintaining the balance in Love
You should maintain the balance not by asking your Ego how to keep the balance subtle
Instead you should go meditate to maintain the balance
In the first occasion, asking yourself how to maintain the balance Ego will emerge
In the second occasion, when start meditate your balance will got revolve
So in conclusion
Never ask your self whatever
Instead find all the answers in awareness
And that happens not when ask your Ego, but when start to meditate
Thank you again Ben...
Love your videos
Good that Ben. Just started meditation and seen this vid. Very articulate explained and the visuals helped me get my head understandimng it all. Thanks mate keep em comin. subscribed.
Another great video
Short and simplified
Motivating
Even gladlier exposing the Ego
To all feeling a bit concerned with their Ego
The people mistakenly understand the Ego, as their right to exist, to fight, to have the right to exist.
Constantly moving back and forth within blame and gain
The matter with Ego is not opposing your needs
On the first place exactly the Ego gave you idea of needs, and how to achieve these
Once having your spiritual experience you will see exactly your place in the world.
Having that you'll be perfectly centered
Then will see the Ego as the old primitive instrument of the blind person searching its way.
Once having the spiritual experience
You'll find even furtherer that the Ego is the constant accompaniment chattering in your head moving you back and forth in your daily life
You'll see how much energy you are wasting in the constant unnecessary play
In this way you just remove the Ego as an obsolete instrument
Regarding the psychosis
Triggering the psychosis shows you how much of Your Ego is being hidden and latent
In a sense such a bad experience is a good, helping you purging you from the Ego
As is with the vomiting cleansing your body
Vomiting you are cleansing the food path
Psychosis is cleansing your mind from the Ego
In both cases you have just letting it go
Imagine trying to vomit by stopping you do so - probably you"l suffocate and pass away
Now imagine having psychosis trying to get a grip on Reality by listening the Ego
You just have to let go
But also, let me explain what the Psychosis is
This is the difference between listening the Ego and hearing the Ego
On your normal daily life you are listening separating the Ego from the ideas it suggests
On your ecstatic Psychosis when you are overcharged, when you opened fully aware, you are no any longer able to distinguish back and forth, between ideas, All becomes one, The psychosis kicks in when you start hearing the Ego. You hear it, but you are unable to listen. Because channeling to listen means your attention put on a certain spot, while hearing is the Ego is not being focused, neither you are able to focus, The hearing penetrates you entirely, all cognitive constructs demolishing, not able how to prioritize your thoughts.
Let go is the most valuable advise one could ever give to the one in trouble
It's quite difficult with a flame, I found, Ben? An incense stick or a dot on a wall is better as the flame can move with drafts, and is distracting. A very powerful technique, undeniable, the way your eyes react is similar to an aperture on a photographic lense, your outer sight or field of view diminishes .I had my first 'experience' using this. Brilliant.
Amazing video, goes right into my top-3 this year! A lot of good information explained in an easy to understand way. From now on I think I have to tools to improve the quality of my meditation, let's see what happens. :)
What I appreciate about your vids, Ben, is the simplicity and straightforwardness of your explanations. I am definitely one of those people who got so far and then get coming up against barriers. Thank you so much.
Just out of interest, if the single-pointed focus is the nostril, are you breathing in and out through it? If so, is the focus on both the inhale and exhale sensations, which will be slightly different?
I once read that the ego is the me, and the soul is the I.
Great video though. Spot on.
One love
I find it's also possible to focus on nothing and just still down the thoughts. Can that also be useful or is it better to always have an object?
Hi, Do you offer a personal consultation as part of your meditation school?
I think maybe the ego is simply the body’s preservation system and it’s not necessarily scheming to deter you from spiritual growth but rather exists as a less conscious biological process which is a necessary part of incarnating into a biological body. Perhaps it’s just a matter of taking your consciousness out of the thoughts which our brains naturally produce. I feel strongly that the ego is not its own entity with an agenda or a fear of losing its own existence.
I see it this way, also. I've never benefited from seeing and treating the ego like an almost personified enemy with a sinister agenda. Seems more like it originally had a valuable "job" within a support network, but that support network seemingly diminished to where the ego operating system enlarged, but not because it originally wanted that to happen to it.
If I place an object or an effigy to focus my concentration upon, does it mean that I don't have to close my eyes and will keeping my eyes open be an effective means to meditate.
Spirituality speaking, how does this single focus meditation benefit me. Will i connect with my guides and angels better. Will i receive higher vibrational thoughts or move towards ascension. Or is it just to calm and clear my mind so i can focus on simpler thoughts.
This might be hands down the single most important meditation video I have ever seen 💛🙏
Is this related to jhanas/dhyanas?
I've been seeing 11s for over 15 years now. At the start I found them to be re-assure. Now unfortunately they're equal parts frighting and frustrating. If they are benevolent in some way I've failed to find it.
This is interesting, I have started to notice when I am doing anapana meditation I can now focus on the breath fairly consistently but I am aware there is chatter in the background. It's almost like the voices are still there but the volume is dialled right down to a point where I can't make out what they are saying. I am aware there is still noise going on but I am not involved in it if that makes sense?
Ego is a terrible thing
A survival mechanism
mirroring all day long people's expectations in our interactions
Having limited and primitive people around
you have to have a language with them
an attitude shown
Instead of trying to explain
using the primitive language
Better jump directly being up there
Dropping off the Ego is even easier than expected
As far as you don't try to explain it
Trying to explain you enter in the blood bath with Ego interaction
In order to untangle it in others
You all yourself enter the mental hell of Ego owner, trying to make love and explain it simply. Efforts to help
Being all dedicated you give yourself all
Just to show what you see
To share the light with others
There's no bigger joy than that
That is the motivation that always put you on track even after biggest exhaustion
On the other hand
We build Ego castle
to be protected
To have a place to charge our energy, discharging in the comfort zone
We call that life
And as far as we are stable, we don't search an option
While the one not being able to build own castle tries searching for alternatives
There are myriads of alternatives
Hidden and Latent
The issue comes when we try to "define" these as path with all its rounds
The more we define, the less possible to implement
Because all the time what does define is the Ego, and you nourishing it letting it to lead you
Every time you trust it
Yet you are still half sank in the mud
Believing the life is hard to follow
"But that means you're alive"
To make a quantum shift in awareness without an Ego you have to change the orbit in a blink
Without waking your Ego for advise
Nice! 🙏👌
Sometimes when I am in deep meditation I get a feeling of fever. Today it was only a few seconds. One time it lasted several minutes. Impossible to finish my medition. I get pushed out. Have you ever had that fever like feeling during meditation?
People do it on daily basis without realizing it is meditation. For example during driving. Did you experience while driving that you passed away into paralysis being with your thoughts somewhere else and still driving safely? It is due to focusing on one point during driving. I am getting pissed of on our ancestors. We don't know ourselves at all. Human beings are like talking monkeys while we already can reach stars.