the self-limiting effects of its disruptive stimuli. And because of that, you
won’t experience the knee-jerk reactions that formerly forced you to return
to the old, familiar self that you are so eager to change.
By persisting with meditation and creating coherence within, you will not
only remove a lot of the negative physical conditions that plague your body,
but you can also progress toward that ideal self you’ve envisioned. Your
inner coherence can counteract negative reactionary emotional states and
allow you to unmemorize the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make
them up.
Once you’ve gotten to a neutral/empty state, it is far easier to engage a
heightened one like compassion; it is easier to bring in pure joy or love or
gratitude or any of the elevated emotional states. That’s true because those
emotions are already profoundly coherent. And when you’ve moved
through the meditative process and produce a brain-wave state that reflects
this purity, then you will begin to overcome the body, the environment, and
time, which once produced your self-limiting emotional states. They will no
longer control you; instead, you will control them.
Having Embodied Knowledge,
You Are Prepared for Experience
You have now equipped yourself with the knowledge necessary to move
on to the meditation discussed in Part III, with full understanding of what
you will be doing and why.
Remember that knowledge is the forerunner to experience. All the
information you have read has been put there to prepare you for an
experience. Once you learn to meditate and apply this to your life, you
should begin to see feedback. In the following section you will learn how to
put all of this into practice and begin to make measurable changes in any
area of your life.
I’m reminded of the two-stage journey that many climbers make when
they ascend Washington State’s Mount Rainier, the highest volcano in the
contiguous U.S. (14,410 feet). Leaving their car at the Paradise Jackson
Visitor Center (5,400 feet), they first trek to Camp Muir (10,080 feet).
Stopping at this base camp affords them the opportunity to look back at all