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I actually ordered a packet on meditation a few days ago. I was/am looking to try and get into it (my sleep cycles are a complete joke).

Do you feel that over time this complete state of mind (in meditation) is fully attainable? It does seem quite difficult so far.

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One of the benefits of meditation is the sleep cycle. Your deepest state of sleeping, (the alpha state? I've suddenly forgotten), occurs for a relatively short period each time you sleep, a couple of hours or so. This is where you get the majority of your rest. Proper meditation places you in this same state without sleeping, effectively giving you a couple of hours of "sleep" for 20 minutes meditation.

As far as it being difficult. This is the hardest thing you will ever do. There aren't many yogi's out there.
I used to run a 2 day course on meditation. The drop-out rate a month after the course was 99%. One time I rang a woman who had done the course two days after we had finished. She had left something behind which I had managed to identify as being hers. She got the shock of her life. Her mind had completely blanked out the weekend. She had no recolection of doing the course before I rang her.