I do a lot of this stuff as a yogi. Very interesting. A while back - maybe ten years ago - I'd do a meditation where I imagined myself on my knees facing an ex

I do a lot of this stuff as a yogi. Very interesting. A while back - maybe ten years ago - I'd do a meditation where I imagined myself on my knees facing an executioners gun and allowing my thoughts to visit that moment. Quite illuminating. It's long been a part of the Japanese samurai culture as well - to meditate on death every day.