Nice way of putting it. Ive always been a little non plussed at some people who revel into ceasing thought.I like thought,its pleasent and enjoyable.I get so much pleasure thinking about manifestation quite apart from the physical appearance.To not think seems to me to be a waste of our time here.

@ Stingray: Would there be any significant incremental benefit of practicing the Abraham's Getting into the Vortex Meditation along with the Lifeflow Meditation. And how about practicing only one of these in a day? I guess both have their own benefits, hence which one to let go and which one to continue. I have tried all 3 scenarios in the past few months but am not sure which one to stick to. Need your advice. Thank you so much. :)

@Sourabh - How about asking this as a new question? I think my viewpoint on this might be different to some others here but it won't do you any harm to hear some other points of view :)

I have looked at humans kind of like plants. One type of organism that are classified. All plants need light, water, carbon dioxide. They are all plants yet need different ratios of each nourishment. Some need more light than water and vice versa with every thing in between. Same with us humans but we have a few more needs than plants, more than anything spiritual needs. To put all ratios equal to all humans would not be realistic.There are popular ratios and methods that work for most and some have to do some more fine tuning. Should it not be our duty to at least explore all other methods?

@sam drucker, that is a awsome way to see it, unfortunatly , some still dont see the importance of the spiritual NEEDS of theior soul

@ Sam Drucker: I loved the way you put it across. I get the point. One can only understand the needs of one's soul after having experimented various processes and methods. Thank you :)

@Stingray Excellent quote. I've framed it on the wall now, although i'm testing new ideas so priorities of those different parts change often. It is a good reminder. Thanks.

@Stingray - this question may a bit old but I was just wondering - if one still cant manage rampage of appreciations well, would keeping a simple gratitude list actually be more effective than focus blocks or meditation ?

@kakaboo - Different processes are effective at different points on the vibrational/emotional scale. Trying to appreciate when you are out of range of the Vortex is going to feel annoying to you. That's why it's necessary to have "step-up processes" like Focus Blocks. See Should appreciation be forced? and How do I do the Positive Aspects method after ME4?

I'm surprised that the only thing someone would want to meditate for is to "get in touch with their emotions." I have not heard of this before. Emotions do inspire me towards meditation, though. When experiencing an intense emotion I sometimes practice a pre-programmed meditation (such as watching my breath or meditating on the emptiness of all experiences) in order to broaden my view of the situation.

"Everything affirmed contains its own opposite, and effort to overcome strengthens that against which it strives. When you demand an experience of truth or reality, that very demand is born out of your discontent with what is, and therefore the demand creates the opposite." -Krishnamurti

Seeking to connect to your higher self only affirms that you are not already connected.

well you connect to ur higer self every day it is the ability to understand the messge that makes u "connected: akll teh "gut fellings" and instints are coonection so im not quite sur how u see that you are not if you are trying to to do it better????????

yes you are correct there are many difrant kinds but all consiessness awareness comes from the third eye weather we try or not, and i do belive all of the meditation , regardless of style or tecnique is truly an awarness of your consieness, i might have not only limited it to those three but allowed room for more because you are correct that all of thes do not directly aply to all"types" thank you for pointing this out, love n light

to explain this in a difrant veiw, we are all connected to our higher self and meditation is a consiess effort to hear the connection better,,, we are al conected to it all of the time, it speaks louder in some than others, i know myheart used to only feel hate n i finaly heard myne talk, guess you can spin words around to make anything be true or false but this is the meaning of the previous statements

ty ursixx on the edit help love n light, we need to talk soon, say hello to the family for me please love m light

meditation is to master all the body(physical mind and awareness) to stay aware and transcend! i can tell you what meditation is not! using imagination to day dream by creating image and scenario in your mind!even if doing that is using your mind it is not clearing it of ignorance!

@ white tiger i understand wehat u mean ,, BUT points were taken from this question from em because we all do meditate diffrently and not all mediataions involve bloking out the world to reach ur inner self,, that is right,, just as many people do use meditation for mannifesting things liek u say immagination,, it can be usefull for some to try to visualize things they are trying to attract ,, medditation is JUST as personal as our own diffrenmt personalitys,, everyone has diffrent ways and NONE are wrong !!! love n light