Hundreds of methods exist.
One stands alone.
One based on science not tradition, guarantees success. Introducing: The Feedback Method "...a fix for the wandering mind."
"To the critical eye of a research psychologist, meditation is missing something. Only with feedback can success be guaranteed."
From STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION [PRESS RELEASE].
Advantages of Feedback
The Feedback Method versus Traditional Meditation
WITH FEEDBACK | WITHOUT FEEDBACK |
'No guesswork' instructions | Nebulous instructions |
No practice time need be lost to daydreams | Wasted time unavoidable |
Effortless ease in holding attention | Virtually impossible to hold attention |
Fast, sure practice skill development | Slow practice skill development |
Energized relaxation follows | Collapsed relaxation often follows |
High goals in reach | Modest gains expected |
Guaranteed success | No guarantees |
How Feedback Assures The Best Meditation
Meditation's 'Active Ingredient' Is Attention
Meditation methods differ. Some sit, some move, some are vocal, some silent, but all have one thing in common. Each attends to something (a mantra or the breath for instance). Attention is meditation's active ingredient. With attention, meditation moves mountains. Without it we while away time.
With traditional meditation however, even with the best intentions the mind wanders. Why is it hard to hold attention? It's because we lose attention without knowing we are losing it.
Meditation is like shooting darts blindfolded. Your target is attention, but if you can't see your target, you can't correct your aim. To excel at meditation (as in darts), you need to see what you are doing. You need a way to monitor attention. You need "feedback." The good news is: feedback is easy to find. In fact, it's right before your eyes.
Light Sensations Signal Attention
Where can you find feedback? Right before your eyes. Light sensations have been reported in meditation since the ancient practice began. It is seen when attention holds the eyes still. This holds the image in the same place on the eyes’ retinas. Retinal fatigue follows and with it visual distortion in the form of light.
This light is visual feedback. As long as you attend, you see it. When the mind wanders the eyes wander and the light vanishes. Light signals attention and alerts you to wandering off.
Specially designed Focusing Discs make this effortless, efficient and one hundred percent reliable.
Now experience meditation minus the wandering: the Straight Line Feedback Method.
The How-To Sit comfortably as illustrated (the floor is also fine): 
Basic Sitting Position
Print out the "Solar Flare" below (or other FOCUSING DISCS) or simply focus on the screen. Focus with a gentle gaze on the bull's eye.
Solar Flare Focusing Disc: Feedback Resembles Solar Flares
You'll soon see distortion in the form of light. Attend to this light. When your mind wanders, your eyes wander and the light disappears. That's your signal to return to the bull's eye.
Use the light to monitor attention. Focus on the light and attend to your attention. Feedback lets you mind your mind! "Feedback is to meditation what good steering is to navigation."
(From STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION, Chapter 1)
For detailed instruction at all practice levels, complete with self-tests to guide you [SELF-TESTS]:
STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION by Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with Master Deac Cataldo [HIGHLIGHTS].
Advantages of Feedback
Now see what makes this the best way to meditate:
Practice Skill Improves Rapidly
Meditation is a skill, and skill learning requires feedback. With traditional methods (like shooting darts blindfolded), you can't see what you're doing so you can't correct your aim. Practice skill improves slowly if at all. ("After twenty years," warned a Zen Master, "you can finally say you've begun to learn how to sit.") Feedback solves the problem. Power of concentration builds, and great gain comes from doing this better, not necessarily longer.
Progress Accelerates
Traditional meditation wanders. (“Just sit," says Buddhism, "maybe after many lifetimes you will come upon the truth.") Feedback prevents wandering, and when you don't wander you cover ground fast. In straight line meditation, the butterfly mind takes a bee-line. Precision self-guidance speeds progress. "Beginners have instant success..." (From STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION, Chapter 1)
Feedback Keeps You On Target
Traditional instruction is nebulous. Some teachers even say there's "no right or wrong way" to meditate. You sit passively hoping for luck. With the new method, you see where you're going and you correct your course. Feedback keeps you on target. You go straight to your goal.
You Can Go For The Goal
Some meditation teachers encourage students by saying there is no goal. Some even say there's nothing to be gained, but this puts a damper on motivation. Who wants to work toward no goal? The new method takes care of this too. Goals (from simple relaxation to highest enlightenment) can be set and reached. You can aim high.
"Advanced practice has breakthrough intensity." (From STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION, Chapter 10)
You Can Aim High
Many meditate for relaxation, but meditating for relaxation is like attending a banquet and eating crumbs off the floor. Here you feast at the banquet. With feedback, success is guaranteed.
Success Is Guaranteed
Meditation is a trial and error process but with traditional methods, error goes undetected. No feedback means no guarantee of success.
Feedback assures you meditation's active ingredient. With proof of attention right before your eyes, success is guaranteed.
Science based;
tested and refined over three decades;
complete with self-tests, trouble-shooting, motivation chapters,
and true story inspiration; the Feedback Method is taught in:STRAIGHT LINE MEDITATION:
HOW TO RESTORE AWARENESS AND WHY YOU NEED TO
by Carol E. McMahon, Ph.D. with Master Deac Cataldo
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