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The Feedback Method
The Only Technique With:
* Anchored attention, * Fast, sure, practice skill development and
* Guaranteed success.
Explore here and: See how to meditate with precision self-guidance.
Experience the advantages of feedback (Focusing Discs).
Have fun with Baby Sages (Baby Sages).
Sample what you'll gain (Enlightenment Tests).
Learn about the book (Review & Comment), and
Meet the authors (About the Authors).
PRESS RELEASE:
Research Psychologist Proposes Solution to Meditation’s Perennial
Problem of Wandering Minds
In Carol McMahon’s Straight Line Meditation, the goal is harnessed attention for fail-proof meditation.
COLDEN, N.Y. – Straight Line Meditation: How to Restore Awareness and Why You Need To by Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with martial arts master Deac Cataldo, introduces a feedback meditation method, a fix for the wandering mind.
Meditation requires attention, says McMahon, but attention is hard to hold on to. Meditation, she says, needs a way to monitor attention, a way to see what you are doing. Her feedback method provides it. In this method attention is focused on the bull’s eye of a disc. Attention holds the eyes still, keeping the image in the same place on the eye’s retina, using up photo-pigment (as in exposing photographic film), and creating visual distortion in the form of light. The light is feedback. By seeing the light, explains McMahon, you literally attend to your attention. Instead of drifting and dreaming, feedback lets you mind your mind. The light of enlightenment is explained as “receptor fatigue.” Put to use as feedback it harnesses attention, stops the wandering, and guides you straight to the goal.
Meditation’s goal, according to McMahon, is awareness. Low awareness, she argues, is a universal problem that keeps us from happiness. Self-tests for measuring awareness are included in this step by step guide. Full awareness, McMahon explains, is nothing less than highest enlightenment.
Master Deac Cataldo is the sixth and only living Master in his martial arts lineage. He contributes to the book his tradition’s wisdom, passed down through centuries by word of mouth in face to face teachings, a wisdom source now made available to readers.
For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at cem1685@aol.com. Straight Line Meditation is available for sale online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
As a National Science Foundation Trainee, Carol McMahon earned a doctorate in psychology from Penn State University. Her research has been supported by government and private foundation grants, and she has published widely in professional journals, including the American Journal of Psychology, Psychological Medicine and Medical Hypotheses. She holds a sixth degree black belt in Karate, and is also the author of Where Medicine Fails.
"I cannot recommend this feedback technique more highly."
Rajeev Parikh (thirty year meditator)
How Feedback Guarantees Success
What is the Feedback Method?
The Feedback Method is a highly efficient, self-guiding meditation technique. It has what traditional methods lack: an anchor for attention. It has feedback, and feedback assures success.
How Does It Work?
In meditation your aim is attention. All forms of meditation attend to something (a mantra, a candle flame, the breath for instance). With attention meditation moves mountains. Without it you while away your time.
Using traditional techniques however, even with the best intentions, attention is easily lost. Why? Because you lose attention without knowing you are losing it. (You find out later when you wake from a daydream.)
The Feedback Method prevents this by signalling attention. It lets you know you're on target and it alerts you when you wander off. Here's how it's done.
How Is It Done?
In the Feedback Method, a target (Focusing Discs) is placed on the floor. You simply sit and focus attention on the bull's-eye. In a few seconds, "visual feedback" appears.
What is "Visual Feedback" and What Causes It?
Feedback is a visual signal in the form of light. It is seen when you pay attention.
The light is caused by attention itself: attention holds the eyes still, creating a fixed retinal image. Visual distortion results - usually halos of light. As long as you pay attention, you see the light. When the mind wanders however, the eyes wander and the light disappears. Thus feedback lets you see what you're doing. Precision self-guidance becomes possible. You know when you're on target; you're alerted when you wander off. See the advantages of feedback and you'll know why this is the best meditation instruction available.
What are the Advantages of Feedback?
Meditation's 'active ingredient' is attention. Attention makes it work. Feedback lets you attend to attention: mind your mind! It lets you grab hold of attention the way you would grab a rope for a tow. You are guided in a straight line to your goal.
"Beginners have instant success... Advanced practice has breakthrough intensity."
From Straight Line Meditation (Chapter One)
Compare traditional methods to the feedback method and see the advantags.
Advantages of Feedback
| WITWITHOUT FEEDDBACK | WITH FEEDBACK |
Nebulous instructions | No guesswork instructions |
Wasted practice time | No wasted practice time |
Hard to hold attention | Easy to hold attention |
Slow practice skill growth | Fast skill development |
Collapsed relaxation | Energized relaxation |
Modest gains expected | Highest goals in reach |
No guarantees possible | Guaranteed success |
Discs of certain colors make feedback come easily (Focusing Discs). Have a trial practice session. Print out a disc, or just focus on the screen. Experience the best meditation -- self-help of unprecedented power. Discover for yourself the advantages of feedback.
"Whatever you want to gain from meditation,
a straight line is the shortest distance to your goal."
From Straight Line Meditation (Chapter One)
About the Book
STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION:
HOW TO RESTORE AWARENESS AND WHY YOU NEED TO
By Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with Master Deac Cataldo
Scientifically based and the author's life's work, Straight Line Meditation
covers all bases:
* A fail-proof method - from beginner to advanced instruction;
* Self-tests complete to the highest level;
* Trouble-shooting and motivation chapters;
* Guidance from a living Master, and
* True story inspiration.
Now meet Carol and Master Deac (About the Authors).
Sample Self-tests from the Chapters (Enlightenment Tests),
Sample early comment (Review & Comment)
and just for fun, see baby sages (Baby Sages).
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