The End of Interior Pain

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If one is experiencing "psychic pain," this is a signal that one is supposed to increase time spent in meditation, or mind-clearing. The strongest form of meditation is "pervasive." Instead of scheduling fifteen minutes a day for meditation, as in "structured meditation," one begins to "run" the trm (thought-replacement mechanism, or four-syllable mantra) at any time during the day or night. This should, ideally, contain positive suggestions for positive selfesteem and/or positive goals.

The purpose of "running" the trm is to clarify the mind from excessive thought-- a major cause of interior or mentally-generated pain. You are attempting to clear the mind so that the highest Mind can move through you into the world. This great Mind is God, and is only healing, never harmful, only good, never bad, only Light, never darkness. It is purest Love.

So, before you begin pervasive meditation, invite this great Mind to enter your mind, gently to "take over," and make decisions, and to create lovely thoughtfeelings within your mind.

As noted before, this process does not work immediately. You might run the trm for quite some time without noticeable change. But continue to practice without giving up, and later, you will notice that thoughts of Love, joy, peace, and other "fruits of the Spirit" (ga 5:22) are increasing in "your" mind, as these positivities alone fill the galactic or oceanic Mind deep within. Meditation is the end of interior mental pain. It moves us inevitably towards bliss, ecstasy, or great joy.
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"Pervasive Meditation"

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The method that I would recommend to give Michael [pseudonym] a "clean mental slate" is called "pervasive meditation." You start by choosing a four-syllable phrase that is healthy and healing, such as, "I am at peace," or, "God is Love and..."

Then, using this as a "trm," or "thought-replacement mechanism," you begin to turn it over and over in your mind. This we call "running your trm." All during the day, instead of "wasting" timenergy in unproductive or harmful thoughts, you "run your trm." This you do if you have only five or ten seconds, a couple of minutes, or ten minutes or longer.

This is a thought-eraser that tends to clear out all the clutter and "garbage," as well as irrational thought. It arises from the logical principle that, If thinking is the problem, you cannot think your way out of the problem.

This practice creates a "clear interior space" in the mind. You pray for the Spirit of mental wellness and healing Love to fill this part of the mind. Sufis liken this to cleaning a room for a Guest.:)
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Pervasive Meditation

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"Pervasive meditation" is the same as "acognitive therapy." I have coined both terms to refer to a form of meditation that "pervades" your days and nights. For, in "structured meditation," you usually take fifteen or twenty minutes, go to a certain place, sit down, and "meditate."

But this can be inconvenient to impossible with the speed and variety of modern life. So, an alternative is "pervasive meditation."

Pervasive meditation occurs inside your head, and so, you do not need a particular posture, or a particular place, to practice it.

To practice, choose a four-syllable "mantra." This phrase, in pervasive meditation, is called the "trm," or "thought-replacement mechanism." Its purpose is to replace thought with the thoughtfree state of stillness, leading to the state of "lucidity," or clearmind. This alone allows your higher Mind or Self to act through you.

The trm can be any phrase with which you are comfortable. For many years, my Christian friends and I experimented with the trm, "Jesus Christ, and..." (A three-syllable phrase can be used by adding the word "and," which adds continuity, rhythm, and flow.) Other very spiritual mantras (trm's) include, "Brahman, Brahman," "Krishna, Krishna," "Ahmitabha," "gentle Kwan Yin," "loving Mary,"... and the list goes on and on, into thousands of possibilities.

After having selected a trm with which you can live-- one that is uplifting, spiritual, healing, joyful, etc., you begin to repeat it, inside your head, silently, whenever you get a chance.

So, whenever you have ten seconds here, thirty seconds there, a couple of minutes unoccupied-- and we all have these "free moments" all day-- instead of allowing the mind simply to wander, or, worse, to recycle negativities, why not open the "interior door" to the Lord and Lady of pure Love, allowing this Spirit to work through you? This is, after all, the motive or reason for clearing the mind of all excess thought: You want to become an instrument, a "marionette," of Love.

It cannot be overemphasized that you "run" your "trm" during every spare second or minute, all day long. Using pervasive meditation, a person can meditate a total of four hours or more each day, instead of only fifteen minutes or a half-hour. Of course, meditation is never about "competition." But it is all about doing your best, and giving your "all" to God(dess) every minute of every day. Pervasive meditation takes an unfocused, confused, meandering mind and sharpens its pure and laserlike focus upon God (Love).
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