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Meditation doesn't need to be formal to be effective.

Just taking a minute or two here and there throughout the day can help with stress and anxiety.

Something as simple as taking a deep cleansing breathe every so often is meditating and can really help.

Q: What's your #1 meditation tip

A: Know what your specific meditative goals arewhat you hope to get out of it. Then strategically select meditation techniques to help you reach your specific goals.

A lot of people meditate, but the techniques they use often aren't the ones that can best help them reach their goals.

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Instead of paying attention to breathing, try this!

S U N D A Y M E D I T A T I O N

Close your eyes and slowly count down 3, 2, 1, and relax the muscles in your neck and shoulders. Repeat this three times.

We tend to tense up our shoulders and neck when we feel stressed or anxious. Purposely relaxing those muscles releases tension and stress or anxiety that caused us to tense up. Counting down slowly slows the mind, making it easier to relax.

Freud born in 1856.

Gurdjieff born in 1860s (maybe).

Jung born in 1875.

This timeline coincides with mechanization, automation, and the Gilded Age.

Coincidence that thought leaders of psychological harms, mysticism, the conscious and subconscious mind correlate to the Industrial Revolution

Look around you and notice the space in the room and be the space.

Notice how the space is there no matter what furniture and other items might be in itthe space is still there, unaffected. Be the space.

You are the space and our thoughts are like items in the space. They exist, but dont effect the space which goes endlessly beyond the room in all directions. Be the space.

Close your eyes and slowly count down 3, 2, 1, and relax the muscles in your neck and shoulders. Repeat this three times.

Take a deep cleansing breath and hold it for a few seconds then slowly exhale.

Taking a deep breath to refresh and refocus is a natural meditation most of us do already. We can get further the benefits by doing it more often as a stress preventative.

sharpens your and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your sharpens. The precision of your increases, and gradually you come to a direct of things as they reaally are, without and without .

in plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

Wash your hands, feel the temperature and wetness on your hands. Feel the texture and slipperiness of the soap, let your fingers dangle in the water for a second after rinsing. Notice how calm your mind is.

This works by taking up your full attention and temporarily distracting you from your auto-pilot mental habits.

For 30 seconds listen very carefully to everything you can hear without focusing on any one sound. Notice your calm mind.

This works by taking up your full attention and temporarily distracting you from your auto-pilot mental habits.

Here's a quick overview so you can stop wondering.

Quickly breathe in, taking a deep breath. Hold it for 5 seconds, then slowly exhale for a count of 10. Notice how your mind has slowed and calmed.

This works by using principals of subconscious awareness where the mind going from fast to slow energizes and then calms down leaving us with a calm energetic mind. Its the same process we often use with walking meditation to achieve a calm energized mind.

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Speculating is where our human innovation comes from, and is responsible for much of our reasoning ability. On the other hand, our speculations can really skew our reality.

Our memories include an endless number of thoughts with speculation mixed in, which means a lot of what we think we know isnt necessarily right

Close your eyes and slowly count down 3, 2, 1, and relax the muscles in your neck and shoulders. Repeat this three times.

I started meditating shortly after finishing high school because of a feeling that there has to be something more to life than "this", which I suspect most of us feel at some point in our lives.

How about you

Take a deep cleansing breath and hold it for a few seconds then slowly exhale.

Taking a deep breath to refresh and refocus is a natural meditation most of us do already. We can get further the benefits by doing it more often as a stress preventative.

For 30 seconds listen very carefully to everything you can hear without focusing on any one sound. Notice your calm mind.

This works by taking up your full attention and temporarily distracting you from your auto-pilot mental habits.

Quickly breathe in, taking a deep breath. Hold it for 5 seconds, then slowly exhale for a count of 10. Notice how your mind has slowed and calmed.

Expand your visual focus to include peripheral vision on both left and right sides and maintain your awareness over the full 180 degrees for 10 seconds. Stop and notice how calm your mind is.

This works by saturating our awareness and eliminating distraction, including thinking.

It took years for me to realize the Buddha had suffered from PTSD and left his family after visiting old sick and dying people and was just looking for answers he could live with. Today there are countless vets who do the same thing and we just call them homeless.

Gently and quickly shake or tremble all the fingers on both hands for a count of 10, then suddenly stop. Notice your calm mind.

This is a simple form of somatic shaking or therapeutic shaking that involves intentionally inducing and allowing the body to shake or tremble as a way to release stored tension and trauma from the nervous system. For best results shake/vibrate your whole body.

Count 1,2,3 very quickly 10 times, counting on your fingers. Then count down 3,2,1 very very slowly 3 times. Notice how your mind has slowed and calmed.

This works by using principals of subconscious awareness where the mind going from fast to slow energizes and calms down leaving us with a calm energetic mind. Its the same process we often use with walking meditation to achieve a calm energized mind.

Knowing how we think can begin our transition to being more open and honest with ourselves. Our thoughts are just choices, so we can practice being more aware of the choices we make by evaluating some of the choices we make in our normal daily lives and noticing how our memory, emotions, and speculating affect our decisions.

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Look around you and notice the space in the room and be the space.

Notice how the space is there no matter what furniture and other items might be in itthe space is still there, unaffected. Be the space.

You are the space and our thoughts are like items in the space. They exist, but dont effect the space which goes endlessly beyond the room in all directions. Be the space.

Dreams and nightmares are fascinating phenomena that reveal the secrets of our subconscious mind. They are influenced by our memories, emotions, fears, and desires, and they can help us process, learn, and heal. Dreams and nightmares can enhance our well-being, creativity, and self-awareness and offer insights into our psychological state.

Close your eyes and slowly count down 3, 2, 1, and relax the muscles in your neck and shoulders. Repeat this three times.

Take a deep cleansing breath and hold it for a few seconds then slowly exhale.

Taking a deep breath to refresh and refocus is a natural meditation most of us do already. We can get further the benefits by doing it more often as a stress preventative.

During meditation, when our minds start to become truly still, its not uncommon to have intense meditative experiences.

Fortunately, by learning what triggers these intense experiences, we can prepare ourselves to deal with them when they arise. Whether euphoric, frightening or anywhere in between.

This works by taking up your full attention and temporarily distracting you from your auto-pilot mental habits.

Self-awareness practice consists of paying attention to the choices we make and comes in two forms. The first is active self-awareness where we work with our choices as we make them throughout our day. The second is reflective self-awareness, a practice where we use the past as a mirror to understand ourselves better in the present.

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For 30 seconds listen very carefully to everything you can hear without focusing on any one sound. Notice your calm mind.

This works by taking up your full attention and temporarily distracting you from your auto-pilot mental habits.

Our out-of-sight out-of-mind tendencies can keep the best of us from reaching our meditation goalsand if you happen to be someone who used to meditate, youre always just one choice away from, Yes, I meditate!

Quickly breathe in, taking a deep breath. Hold it for 5 seconds, then slowly exhale for a count of 10. Notice how your mind has slowed and calmed.

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Who meditated today, and what technique did you use

Expand your visual focus to include peripheral vision on both left and right sides and maintain your awareness over the full 180 degrees for 10 seconds. Stop and notice how calm your mind is.

This works by saturating our awareness and eliminating distraction, including thinking.

We can work with our mental associations to help with our mental health. For example, if weve been feeling depressed for more than a couple of days we run the risk of starting to associate our surroundings with the feeling of being depressed, making it that much harder to pull ourselves out of it. Going to places we associate with happier times can help get us back on track sooner.

Count 1,2,3 very quickly 10 times, counting on your fingers. Then count down 3,2,1 very very slowly 3 times. Notice how your mind has slowed and calmed.

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