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Meditation?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 7:32 am
Posted on 6/14/19 at 7:32 am
Anyone on here do any somewhat regular meditation? I don’t do much yoga, but I consistently get 20-30 minutes of meditation in every morning and it’s kind of changed my life. I also dive into some more intense stuff like Wim Hof.
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:56 am to Andychapman13
Interested in this. Any specific resources or practices you can recommend?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 11:51 am to Walter White
I started with like 3 min, then 5, and worked my way up. I found some guided meditation stuff on generic meditation podcasts. Thich Nhat Hanh has some great guided stuff on Youtube. And I listen to a lot podcast from guys like Sahdguru. The Power of Now is a good book, essentially an outline for Buddhist mentality. I find “awareness” meditation to be the most effective in regulating all of my emotions and clearing my mind so that I’m like 3x more efficient throughout the rest of my day, better husband, father, etc. Like anything though, it takes practice. You’ll suck at it at first, but it is still working!
Posted on 6/14/19 at 11:58 am to Andychapman13
I've tried some recently.
I shoot for 5 minutes where I focus on breathing for minute 1, checking in with how various body parts feel in minute 2, going toe to head in flexing muscles in minute 3, visualizing what I want to achieve in various life areas in minute 4 and using minute 5 to clear my mind out and focus on going forwards into the day.
We'll see how it goes. I have been getting it done maybe 4x a week. At work over lunch is easiest for me.
I shoot for 5 minutes where I focus on breathing for minute 1, checking in with how various body parts feel in minute 2, going toe to head in flexing muscles in minute 3, visualizing what I want to achieve in various life areas in minute 4 and using minute 5 to clear my mind out and focus on going forwards into the day.
We'll see how it goes. I have been getting it done maybe 4x a week. At work over lunch is easiest for me.
Posted on 6/16/19 at 4:15 pm to Andychapman13
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The Power of Now is a good book, essentially an outline for Buddhist mentality.
Good book, he also has quite a few Christian sayings and teachings in his book in respect to meditation and living for the moment
Posted on 6/16/19 at 8:05 pm to Andychapman13
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it’s kind of changed my life
Details? Serious inquiry. More specifically what was your time line in seeing changes?
This post was edited on 6/16/19 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 6/16/19 at 8:52 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
I started noticing it within a month or so. A really good way to start meditating longer times without having anxiety and thinking “I just want this to be over” is to engage in wha I call a gratitude mediation. Start from infancy and slowly go through your entire life thinking of everything you’ve ever been grateful and how it made you feel. By the time you get to like 20 min and your alarm goes off you’ll be so into it that you’ll kinda be sad it ended.
Posted on 6/17/19 at 9:27 am to Andychapman13
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don’t wanna blow this forum up
Hell, blow this mother fricker up, that’s what the thread is about.
Posted on 6/17/19 at 10:56 am to windshieldman
Another good strategy is start the meditation off with specific focused breathing strategy to keep you focusing on something other than your thoughts for the first few minutes. A 4-7-9 technique is the basic one, sometimes ill do deep inhale, 15 second hold, long exhale, 15 second hold, repeat. Or what I do a lot is the Win Hof method(you can YouTube how to do it) and then go into a pure meditation for another 10-20 minutes.
Posted on 6/17/19 at 4:06 pm to Andychapman13
Try Vipassana. When people are talking about "mindfulness" this is the tradition they're probably referring to.
Here's a good example:
LINK
The key is to pay attention as much as possible to what's arising in the present. It's very difficult at first.
Here's a good example:
LINK
The key is to pay attention as much as possible to what's arising in the present. It's very difficult at first.
Posted on 6/17/19 at 4:13 pm to Andychapman13
I don't know if this is considered meditation or not, but I like to lie down and imagine that I am a block of ice floating in warm water. Then I imagine myself slowly melting. First the toes melt. Picture it in your head, and feel it. Then the feet begin to melt, then I work slowly up my body; just melting.
It always seems to calm me down and get my head right.
It always seems to calm me down and get my head right.
Posted on 6/17/19 at 4:55 pm to boxcarbarney
That’s actually pretty good imagery! The block of ice is your egoic mind and the warm water is essentially oneness/your soul, etc. When we get our selfish mind out to the way and kinda surrender to the “oneness, God, our spirit, whatever you wanna call it, we are so much more at peace with ourselves. I know it sounds like a bunch of hippy, dippy bullshite, but it does wonders for your peacefulness and happiness, and stress level and at the end of the day that’s pretty significant shite!lol
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