I used to run and enter these kind of states where I would think more clearly. I stopped being a person and felt like pure consciousness. The thing I remember most was how quiet it got and even while running next to a busy street. Time went by very quickly as well. I remember deliberately entering these states with ease and being so pleased with my self when I would come back.

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Not using it for more gains.

Anon are you retarded?

>>17501137
Could you elaborate at all? That's what I'm looking for, how to enter into that state.

>>17500830
Not a runner, but a swimmer and I love zoning out while swimming.
I think the key to it is fluidity or synchronicity in your movements/vibrations (forgive this hippie dippie talk)

Here's how I did it:
>started by focusing on strokes
>then kicks
>then breaths
>muscle memory lock
>amalgamate the counting
>push it to the back of your mind
>once there start to focus on the sounds being made by your body (rushing water for me was a big+++)
>try to identify a pattern or beat
>once you do lose your hearing in it
Now you're not trying to focus on the beat the same way you did for counting, you just want to identify it and know it's there. Same thing as a white noise machine for sleeping. You don't necessarily listen to the machine, but that noise helps you sleep.
Also I mean literally, try lose your hearing.
Now you've got your muscles operating on a metronome and your 'sound-attention" withdrawn into yourself.
Just let your eyes glaze over and get to thinking.
The induction process should take around 10-20 minutes and before you know it an hr will pass by.

Let me know if you want any elaboration.

you can only experience the 1st level jhana/gnosis through any sort of movement-based meditation.
good to start with, but stillness reaches greater depths.