Do you practice meditation/ mindfulness? (67)
My concern with meditation is that it'll make you content to do things that make you really unhappy. It only makes sense in the hours before flying your plane into a battleship
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Hi Bod, I have done so in the past.
I started it at a time I needed it. I found it difficult at the beginning, but when I 'got ' it, I loved it.
I don't do it regularly anymore, but have one meditation I love and do occasionally.
Same with mindfulness.
I started it at a time I needed it. I found it difficult at the beginning, but when I 'got ' it, I loved it.
I don't do it regularly anymore, but have one meditation I love and do occasionally.
Same with mindfulness.
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pKrema: I think best and I see best when most occupied with tasks, the less I focus on something the clearer it becomes...
It just works for me...
I visualise it like being tight up to a tree and made watch life goes by when meditation is mentioned ...
Not my way, not my thing...
Good bit of visualisation but think of the tree as being your thoughts. Meditation can give you a way of untying yourself from incessant, repetitive and non-productive thoughts.It just works for me...
I visualise it like being tight up to a tree and made watch life goes by when meditation is mentioned ...
Not my way, not my thing...
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MsContessa: Not meditation. However, some years ago I read an article on "Filling the Gaps" it basically stated that when you don't know the truth of a situation you fill the gaps with negativity. An example given was of a waitress that brought soup to the table and banged it down in front of the male host spilling it on the table, then she goes back to the kitchen in a huff. The host is very annoyed as he takes it personally and feels she done it deliberately and he feels insulted in front of his guests. Moments later the waitress emerged with clean linen and fresh soup. She explained that the bowl had burned her hand and it then slipped. She couldn't have been more apologetic. The host was very happy as were the guests with the outcome, he had clarity... The moral of the story is .... without clarity, stop filling gaps with negative content or do not fill the gaps at all. I have found that technique to be very good.
Great exercise, thanks for sharing....
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bodleing2: Good bit of visualisation but think of the tree as being your thoughts. Meditation can give you a way of untying yourself from incessant, repetitive and non-productive thoughts.
But Bod, I like my productive thought coming to me in their own time, I need to go through the process and "earn" them...------ This thread is Archived ------
ChesneyChrist: My concern with meditation is that it'll make you content to do things that make you really unhappy. It only makes sense in the hours before flying your plane into a battleship
I'm talking about meditation, not medication.
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mollybaby: Hi Bod, I have done so in the past.
I started it at a time I needed it. I found it difficult at the beginning, but when I 'got ' it, I loved it.
I don't do it regularly anymore, but have one meditation I love and do occasionally.
Same with mindfulness.
Glad it helped you Molly...I started it at a time I needed it. I found it difficult at the beginning, but when I 'got ' it, I loved it.
I don't do it regularly anymore, but have one meditation I love and do occasionally.
Same with mindfulness.
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bodleing2: Glad it helped you Molly...
Oh, it definitively helped.I often see people here complaining about headaches, insomnia and stress. If they opened their minds, they would be able to help themselves.
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pKrema: But Bod, I like my productive thought coming to me in their own time, I need to go through the process and "earn" them...
That's ok, we all have different ways of coping.
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meditation doesn't work for me but I practice staying in the now and just let go of my thoughts as they come up....some days my mind is quiet and others not so much but its work in progress.....
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I spent time formally studying meditation at
very useful
now i observe mind all the time
i do not listen to music and guard my mind constantly
i watch my sable feeling
very useful
now i observe mind all the time
i do not listen to music and guard my mind constantly
i watch my sable feeling
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Mindfulness is a cure for all that ails me. Having no need to meditate or practice this, it is given at birth and you just need to remember or call upon it.
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bodleing2: In recent years years extensive studies have proven beyond don't that meditation, providing it's practised on a daily basis, has many benefits to health and well being.
Mindfulness classes are now available on the NHS in the UK due to the proven benifits of this form of therapy.
Have you ever tried, or do you practice meditation?
If nothing else I worry about being too narcissistic as it is. That's my problem with meditation, it doesn't make you happy it makes you an actor willing to perform any and every miserable role.Mindfulness classes are now available on the NHS in the UK due to the proven benifits of this form of therapy.
Have you ever tried, or do you practice meditation?
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ChesneyChrist: If nothing else I worry about being too narcissistic as it is. That's my problem with meditation, it doesn't make you happy it makes you an actor willing to perform any and every miserable role.
It comes from the far-east, in the modern world that's the land of the suicidal two-faced and in the past kamikaze two-faced with unparalleled atrocities. Narcissism, fake it until you make it and detachment from life is why meditation is popular in the online age, but it's too much navel-gazing it's too much American psycho it's too much grooming and passive acceptance of the horrors. You've completely given up on a better world retreating ever further into yourself.------ This thread is Archived ------
And it's nothing new. Baby boomers imported it in from the east under the new age, but their own parents meditated - keep calm and carry on. They never put a name to it but i can remember my Grandma and others her age entered into a trance-like state of quiet time which seemed to compose them the rest of the time. It's nothing new people have been self-meditating in the context of horrors for a long, long time. Your parents did it.
But that is the point. What avoidable horrors go unavoided by being so ready to accept them? Yes, they had keep calm and carry on during the war but after the war they had a cup of tea and invented the NHS. They did all these things and more knowing that hunger, bombs and polio were not an acceptable reality, it wasn't just the case of feeling better about polio they were determined to produce a vaccine for polio and actually allow people to live better.
But that is the point. What avoidable horrors go unavoided by being so ready to accept them? Yes, they had keep calm and carry on during the war but after the war they had a cup of tea and invented the NHS. They did all these things and more knowing that hunger, bombs and polio were not an acceptable reality, it wasn't just the case of feeling better about polio they were determined to produce a vaccine for polio and actually allow people to live better.
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bodleing2: How did this turn into a thread about buddhism?
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bodleing2: How did this turn into a thread about buddhism?
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