Changes

This [''stream of thoughts/restless thinking''] is what we call the activity of the mind, which always comes in the way of the concentration and tries to create doubt and dispersion of the energies. It can be got rid of in two ways, by rejecting it and pushing it out, till it remains as an outside force only—by bringing down the higher peace and light into the physical mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/combining-work-meditation-and-bhakti#p36</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/mental-difficulties-and-the-need-of-quietude#p1 </ref>

It [''the tendency to fall asleep during meditation''] is a common obstacle with all who practise Yoga at the beginning. This sleep disappears gradually in two ways—(1) by the intensifying of the force of concentration—(2) by the sleep itself becoming a kind of swapna samadhi in which one is conscious of inner experiences that are not dreams (i.e. the waking consciousness is lost for the time, but it is replaced not by sleep but by an inward conscious state in which one moves in the supraphysical of the mental or vital being). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p102 </ref>