Meditation is only a temporary release of resistant thought.

All that meditation is, is a temporary withdrawal from focusing on all thought (as much as that is possible). The idea is that if you are not focused on any thought, you won't be focused on resistant thoughts either.

That temporary non-focusing gives you a reminder of what it feels like to be The Real You again (the non-physical, non-resistant You) so you can now more accurately compare what resistance feels like compared to non-resistance. And, also, the more time you spend in any vibrational state (good feeling or bad feeling), the more you are likely to habituate to it so meditating gives you a chance to build up a habit of feeling good (non-resistant) again.

Your vibration on any subject always remains where you last left it so as soon as you come out of the meditative state, you are going to go back to that old vibration. But now any resistance in there will stand out more than before and you may actually decide to reach for a better-feeling thought on that subject rather than endure the increased pain of resistance.

Most people decide to go for the less painful option but there are some people who, for whatever reason, decide that the pain is still worth it (usually because of some need to be "Right") so that's what I was talking about in the other posting about the need to be less rigid i.e. not to be like those people :)

So while meditation is a temporary release from resistance, you still need to incrementally move your vibrational setpoint somehow to make a permanent shift.

You do this by presenting yourself with two mental states that you are aligned with and your mind will automatically recalibrate itself permanently to the better-feeling one. It's just the way our minds work.

With Focus Blocks/Wheels, this idea is expressed in presenting yourself with two statements that you believe to be true but one is better-feeling than the other. Your mind will automatically choose the better-feeling one as your new permanent default vibrational setpoint...unless you think another thought later to move it back again.

Just a hint...do your deliberate vibrational work before you meditate because immediately after meditating you are probably still going to be feeling good (for a while) and you won't feel like engaging with those resistant thoughts to move them permanently.

What I do is what I've been calling the Advanced Focus Blocks Method whereby I will play with Focus Blocks for a while until I feel some inner relief then I immediately move into Positive Aspects/Touchstones/Virtual Realities to boost up the feeling of relief even further so that I am "feeling good" and am at the Vortex Edge.

Then after a while, I'll feel myself being drawn into the Vortex and can write out a Rampage of Appreciation to confirm that I am there and "milk the experience" longer - to make it more habitual.

After I've done that, I'm in the perfect state to meditate (to "milk the experience" even longer) and the meditation becomes a joyful experience instead of an escape from resistance.

I just never tire of using that method because not only does it get you into the Vortex every time, it cleans up resistant thoughts automatically on the way because you are using the relief from working on those Focus Blocks to springboard you towards the Vortex Edge.

To use a martial arts analogy, it's a bit like using the force of an attacker against themselves to give you the upper hand :)