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Research Psychologist Proposes Solution to Meditation’s Perennial Problem of Wandering Minds
In Carol E. McMahon’s Straight Line Meditation, the goal is harnessed attention for fail-proof meditation
COLDEN, N.Y., March 18, 2009 – Straight Line Meditation: How to Restore Awareness and Why You Need To by Carol E. McMahon with martial arts master Deac Cataldo, introduces a feedback method, a fix for the wandering mind.
Meditation requires attention says McMahon, but attention is hard to hold on to. Meditation she says, needs a way to monitor attention, a way to see what you are doing. Her feedback method provides it. In this method attention is focused on the bull’s eye of a disc. Attention holds the eyes still, keeping the image in the same place on the eye’s retina, using up photo-pigment (as in exposing photographic film), and creating visual distortions in the form of light. The light is feedback. By seeing the light explains McMahon, you literally attend to your attention. Instead of drifting and dreaming, feedback lets you mind your mind. The light of enlightenment is explained as “receptor fatigue.” Put to use as feedback it anchors attention, stops the wandering, and guides you straight to the goal.
Meditation’s goal, according to McMahon, is awareness. Low awareness, she argues, is a universal problem that keeps us from happiness. Self-tests for measuring awareness are included in this step by step guide. Full awareness, McMahon explains, is nothing less than highest enlightenment.
Master Deac Cataldo is the sixth and only living Master in his martial arts lineage. He contributes to the book his tradition’s wisdom, passed down through centuries by word of mouth in face to face teachings, a wisdom source now made available to readers for the first time.
For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at cem1685@aol.com. Straight Line Meditation is available for sale online at CreateSpace.com; Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
As a National Science Foundation Trainee, Carol McMahon earned a doctorate in psychology from Penn State University. Her research has been supported by government and private foundation grants, and she has published widely in professional journals. Her book Where Medicine Fails was a driving force in the holistic health movement. Carol holds a sixth degree black belt in Karate, and offers further meditation instruction in articles online.
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