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Introducing: The Feedback Method
The Only Method With: * Anchored attention
* Fast, sure practice skill development
* Guaranteed success
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. 2009– 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. Read more.
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What is the Feedback Method?
The Feedback Method is self-guided meditation. It uses feedback to assure success.
What is "Feedback?"
Feedback is information necessary for learning. In shooting darts for instance, seeing your target (feedback) lets you correct your aim.
How Does the Feedback Method Work?
In meditation your target is attention. The new method works by letting you see when you're attending and signalling you when you wander off.
Why is Attention Important?
All forms of meditation attend to something (a mantra; the breath for instance). With attention meditation moves mountains. Without it you while away time.
With traditional methods 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 solves this problem. Here's how it's done.
How is it Done?
In the new method, a Focusing Disc is placed on the floor. You simply sit and focus on the bull's-eye. Soon visual feedback appears.
What Is "Visual Feedback?"
Visual feedback is a sensation of light. This light is caused by attention itself. It works like this.
Attention holds the eyes still creating a fixed retinal image. Visual distortion - halos of light result. Pay attention and you see the light. When the mind wanders however, the eyes wander and the light disappears. Feedback lets you see what you are doing. You know when you're on target; you're alerted to wandering off. The advantages make this the best way to meditate.
What are the Advantages of Feedback?
Attention makes meditation work. Feedback lets you attend to your attention: mind your mind! With it you can hold attention the way you'd grab a rope for a tow. You're taken straight to your meditation goal. Now compare traditional methods to the feedback method.
"Beginners have instant success... Advanced practice has breakthrough intensity."
From Straight Line Meditation (Chapter One)
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 typical | Energized relaxation routine |
Modest gains expected | High goals in reach |
No guarantees possible | Guaranteed success |
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Discs of certain colors facilitate feedback (Focusing Discs). Print out a disc or just focus on the screen. Experience meditation's full potential - self-help of unprecedented power.
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, twenty years in the making, Straight Line Meditation offers: * Fail-proof Meditation;
* Self-tests complete to the highest level;
* Trouble-shooting and motivation chapters;
* Guidance from a living Master, and
* True story inspiration.
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