I do it differently
I spend at least 30" a day in a focused attention session. It takes a good deal of mental discipline to do this. After years and years of practice, I sometimes see a visual image of my life as a jigsaw puzzle. Every once in a while, a puzzle piece gets filled in.
When I say "differently," that's what I mean. I am not in a regular consciousness mode when I do it. The regular conciousness mode is probably gamma or beta, but I do this in the theta brainwave state.
I have a section that looks like the shape of the continent of Asia filled in. Looking at it as a regular jigsaw, usually in the shape of a rectangle, it is about 2/3 filled in.
It is making me think that a lot of stuff in life happens for a reason. I'm not sure if I can say everything happens for a reason, but there seems to be a reason for a lot of it.
It's very satisfying. It certainly gives a perspective that there is meaning to life.
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