I have some problem with my mental and I am going to do a fixity exercise for the next 5 days. I will explain what I will do and if any others want to try also it would be great to share our experiences. So, I give you the explanation I found and day after day I will tell you what happened.

Quote:Fixity
The technique is simple:
- Can you sit?
- Can you look?
- Can you breathe?

Ok then, if you think you can sit, look and breathe, then do just that! Nothing else.
Sit on a chair or cross-legged on the floor, look at the floor by fixing a point, and pay attention to your breathing. Easy enough? Try 20 minutes in a row, and you’ll discover yourself a bit. Most people to who we suggested doing fixity could not bare more than 5 minutes at first. In time, you get the hang of it and you can stare in fixity for an hour.

During the practice of fixity, don’t use any mantra or visualization. Don’t have background music. Don’t stimulate your mind in any way. The goal is to bring the mind to a rest. Simply pay attention to a point on the floor, and to your natural breath.

When you first train at fixity, your mind throws out the trash. Your mind will be pulling out any kind of stuff to try to get you out of fixity. Your eyes will start to move around uncontrollably, and your breathing might become harder. This is normal. Your mind is used to continuous stimulation, so it simply obeys the law of inertia, trying to perpetuate its movement. Whenever this happens, simply keep fixing a point on the floor, and relax your breathing.

When you notice your mind starts to follow a single thought, nourishing a mental fantasy, come back to your non-thinking attitude, and keep being aware of the stuff that your mind is pulling out. Simply come back to the simple thought of contemplating your natural breath moving up and down, in and out. While you are aware that your mind is throwing thoughts like
crazy, remain calm and at peace. The goal is eventually not to think anymore, but you have to accept that this is not the case at first. Try not to think, but don’t judge the thinking.

Before your mind stops, you will eventually go thru other stages of purification. Actually these are fun, and produce nice feelings inside your body. While doing simple fixity, contemplating your breathe naturally going up and down, your entire energy system is revitalizing. You might feel tingling sensations here and there. These are precursor to more impressive power surges from your nervous system, celebrating its new freedom.
Going further in any other explanation is useless, since it requires
the experience of it to understand it.

from the book Quantum Buddhism
Mahajrya Bodhana Sutra / Teachings on Awakening to the Great Field
by MahaVajra

Well, the first 20 minutes is not that bad. It just took me 19 minutes to finaly stop thinking But, I could observe a lot of interesting thing, like today I can easily see my thought before I say something or do something. That's great.

Is it really possible to banish all thoughts from your mind while meditating or is it much easier to focus but if thoughts come, to be aware and allow them to flow out again?

Last week I was listening to someone I always admired who is a 'meditation master' in his own right discuss his early days. They used to get beaten if they allowed thoughts into their mind during meditation (they had to raise their hand to signal that a thought had come through). In the end, the flogging got so bad that he decided he would either lie about the thoughts or move on and he chose the latter.

The lesson to his story was that meditation is a time to be still without struggle. If thoughts come, welcome them and gently let them go and as time goes on and with no struggle, fewer thoughts will be coming to visit.

I am intrigued by this fixity method and will be watching your post to see how you get on. Best wishes.

Thank you for your encouragement Seriously I chose the most difficult technic for me. My mental always need to be entertained, so when I do that it's hell haha! If I can get better to just be there at the present moment with it, I will be really happy.

Anyway, for your question; I don't think it's a good idea to fight against our thoughts, because we participate to them and make them worst. I know this beating technic that you are talking about, and I don't encourage it, but it must give results. When I see a thought in my mind, I observe it. If I can't stop thinking, I observe that I can't stop thinking...nothing more. I don't participate to the game, I just watch it. Last night, I spent most of the 20 minutes to observe my inability to not think...I guess it takes some time, because I spent to much time to entertain myself unconsciously.

I found something yesterday, a kind of peace. I was thinking and it was just that. No judgment, no guilt...just the observation.

I am pretty sure the third day is the worst. I don't know why this number, but even when I did a night meditation, the worst part was at 3:00 am also haha!

Anyway, this time, nothing good happened. It's like if my mental went crazy. I was even not able to be concentrate on what I was suppose to do...arg! What is nice is I didn't believe to all this frustration in my mind and my body. I still continued to observe everything, calm while my mind was sreaming at me.

Finaly! I got a peace mind. In fact, this time I didn't feel to do any meditation, I was bored and wanted to stop it, but for me it's never a reason to listen to my mind so I did it anyway. I think a part of my mind knew that I was going to get a no-mind state and it's why it tried to hard to make me believe how it would be boring to sit and fix my point.

That was great, even if I don't remember what was great problably the moment just now.

Well, the last day was good. I think I know how to stop thinking when I wish. It will be so helpfull in kind of situation where I couldn't find the peace. I couldn't get asleep fast before and now I just think to nothing a few minutes and ...zzz. For me it makes the difference. Another thing is I can so easily see my reaction, you know the subtile thought we have before make a move or say something...well I can see it. It helps me to master what I do, because now I can see why I do what I do or why I say what I say and can evolve of that!

Well done Prasanam! You have expressed the power of persistence and despite some initial difficulty, you persevered and sailed through

Thank you! now, I am looking for another kind of meditation!

Awesome.
It sounds and looks great. I was also imagining myself that I think I cannot endure the 20minutes but I do want to try fixity, especially that it aims to relax yourself.