Teachings,+Dark+Experience+Meditations

=Dark Experience Meditations= (By Darth Affliction) (Return to Teachings)

-**Elements of Meditation** When I think of Sith meditation I seem to come up blank with examples of Sith sitting around meditation. I know it happens, but it doesn't seem to happen and it doesn't feel right when you think about any sith sitting still except to wait for some plot to come to fruition. So I looked more closely, and I learned a rare secret which I call experience Meditation.

According to my study these meditations come in three steps Experience Remembrance Meditation

-**Experience** We learn much about ourselves when we experience a difficult situation. When we are faced with difficult odds or powerful emotions or confusion we see a lot of how we work. This is good. This is also why so rarely would you see a Sith really just sit and meditate. Action is key first, then meditation can be done between actions. This allows you to constantly be active and to gain power without removing yourself from the game. Putting yourself in difficult situations is not necessary but these experiences are far too valuable to waste so use them well in addition to your daily experience.

-**Remembrance** At one of these times when you are not actively engaged in a step of your plan you should remember in your mind the experiences you have had since your last meditation. Today did you accomplish what you wanted? What was it about that woman that made you uneasy? How your actions worked out and how you felt and reacted to situations.

-**Meditation** As you remember these things you must learn from them. Decide what caused the failures and feelings, what would work better, and how to approach the next task with your added understanding. Learn how you react to certain situations and learn to leverage or avoid bad results. If you are training decently as a Sith you should already be burning away every weakness you have so you are only avoiding what still remains. Not making up for weakness, but learning how to apply strength.

__Example__ Each morning as I wake up, I relax and think about what I am going to accomplish today. My goals. My aspirations and which steps these are toward my larger goals. I remember trouble I have had with these types of things in the past and I plan better ways of applying my strengths to complete the goals perfectly.

At the end of the day, or in between tasks if I feel the need I review my effectiveness and seek out the reasons for my difficulties. I look closely at my feelings and how they affected my work if they did, I look at my interactions with people. Did they resent me for what I did? Do I care? How will my goals be effected by this level of efficiency? What are some ways to improve. Then I fix the most important parts in my mind and go to sleep. In this way I grow more powerful with every cycle of sun and moon. Other people focus on accomplishment and they eventually get most things they wanted to done. A Sith fine tunes every facet until they can make the accomplishments other struggle for daily. Thus they get everything they want.

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