I started using a 13th-century "Memory Wheel" technique for Loving Kindness meditation.
I've been practicing meditation for a while, but when I tried Loving Kindness or Metta meditaiton, I always struggled with the "visualization" part. My mind would just wander without focusing on anyone.
That was until I learned about Memory Wheels (concentric circles used by medieval philosophers like Ramon Llull to combine concepts).
I realized these old "mind computers" could actually stabilize the floating thoughts during Loving Kindness meditation.
I built a wheel that rotates specific people like friends. It turned the abstract feeling into a concrete mental experience.
Has anyone else here experimented with combinatorial memory arts (Ars Combinatoria) for mindfulness? It feels like hacking the brain with old tech.
If you're interested in the mechanics, I made a deep-dive video on how I set up my first Memory Wheel for memory-based meditation here:
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