Aragorn said:
Breton and Joan, I think it might be useful for you to analyze why you don't find the POTS, in it's original form, to be sufficient? Not so long ago I had the urge to tweak and suggest new variations to the EE program. With the help of others I finally realized that this was nothing more than my predator, or self importance, trying to distract me. As Gurdjieff said, when we are not yet awake we need to trust those who are. I trust that if Laura finds the POTS to be sufficient for our work, then it is.
Good you say so Aragorn, that is important point, and worth bringing up from time to time.
In fact, just for that reason that you mentioned, I have also done this analysis and this was what I came up with:
I like and prefer POTS. It will be in most of my meditation. It is unbelievably powerful, and I have come to understand that this was a wonderful gift from 6D and Laura. In a way, I cannot believe how lucky I am to have found out about it. I recited it multiple times nearly daily from June 2009 and throughout a very difficult summer in my marriage, and also as I moved to drop the strategic enclosure of my former lifelong religion. This has got such a special place in me, that is hard to describe.
I have noticed a tendency to want to take a break from it though. I try to examine why, and I thought that having an alternative occasionally might help keep POTS "
special".
Also, I prefer POTS when I can focus well on it, and when I can be undisturbed and alone. But, if I am not focusing on strictly meditation, but maybe doing something with my hands I want something else, like a mantra. Maybe.
And further, if I have trouble falling asleep say at 4 or 5 AM, I find I just don't prefer POTS, but something more simple. Now I don't need anything made up for me, I can put any soft music and repeat my own phrases in my head. But... you know... if I have this idea, maybe others do too, and they would benefit by an alternative selection that is part of a CD made by FOTCM/QFG?
But I am not attached to the idea, of course. Just brainstorming. Also I am a rank amateur at this meditation stuff. If there is a flaw in my reasoning someone hopefully can spot it.