A wise Taoist monk taught me the most powerful meditation technique.
How to stop all self-talk and how to do it with your eyes open.
This technique allows us to do much more than simply to meditate.
It is the key to how we can experience lightbulb moments on demand.
Lightbulb moments are those brilliant ideas where we get the whole picture in less than a second.
Apocryphally,
It's thought that Isaac Newton got the whole theory of gravity in an instant and that it took him the whole of the rest of his life to work out the math.
Lightbulb moments are whole mind and whole body events.
If somebody was inside an MRI scanner when they experienced one,
You'd see all their neurology light up at once.
They arrive on the top of your head and travel in a flash down to our root.
Here,
We check in with the earth mind to make sure they're ecological.
They then pop up to our gut mind,
Which acts as a gatekeeper and gives them a yes or a no,
A go or a no-go.
Next,
Our heart mind falls in love with the idea before it passes it to our right brain that sees the whole vision.
The right brain lobs it over to the left brain to process the detail before it routes it down to our throat mind where we exclaim,
And all of this happens in much less than a second,
Inside space and outside time.
Breathe in.
.
.
And down.
So to experience a lightbulb moment on demand,
Find a spot on the wall and stare right at it.
But allow your attention to stray away from the spot so you're aware of everything around the spot,
Above and below,
And side to side.
Next,
Imagine your awareness floating from your eyes to the centre of your brain so that you're looking at the back of your eyeballs as they observe that spot on the wall.
If any internal dialogue appears,
Ask it to go away because you're busy.
Try and maintain this state for as long as you can as it may save you hours of research and hard work.
Then,
When a flash of inspiration arrives,
Make sure you thank it.
It might just be a message from your future self.
