By definition, Marine Corps drill is
By definition, Marine Corps drill is meditation. My definition of meditation is anything we do to distract ourselves from our normal auto-pilot mental habits, and works by replacing our current habits with new ones through repetition.
Let me know if you need help selecting a meditation technique that helps you reach your specific goals.
: 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.
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: place the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth like you were going to make a T sound and remain aware of the feeling of the tongue on the roof of your mouth for 10-15 seconds. Then notice how quiet your mind is.
This works sort of like a switch, putting our dialog on pause, which also pauses our internal dialog. You may notice that as soon as you release your tongue from the roof of your mouth that your internal dialog resumes.
Over the 25+ years learning how the subconscious mind works I've concluded that it's not possible to truly understand meditation without understanding our subconscious so we can grasp what's really going on.
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Being and Living in the Present Moment
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.
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: 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.
: 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.
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: 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.
Explore your SubconsciousI really enjoyed this video. It speaks to things I've been pondering on and off for years and lately have been grasping onto more firmly. As I understand myself more deeply I see that I tend towards mysticism (assuming I understand that word I suppose). It has taken a long time for me to get here because I was raised by people and within a sub-culture that made little allowance for the mystical and spiritually mysterious.
Mindfulness and Insight on Your Phone!
- 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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: 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.
Ready for an evolution of self-awareness, thought, and understanding that leads us into full blown consciousness where our subconscious raises into our normal daily consciousness
You can do this!
Friday Meditation: 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.
If youre thinking about taking up meditating, or have been meditating for a while, its helpful if you 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. If you need help selecting a meditation were here to help.
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How Do I Think
: 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.
How Can I Train My Brain to Think
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Somatic shaking (shaking or trembling), which comes from the limbic brain (the part of the brain that holds emotions), sends a signal that danger has passed and that the fight-or-flight system can turn off. They are literally finishing the nervous system response to release trauma from the body.
Shaking/vibrating meditation:
The Power of Thinking!
: 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.
Letting-go vs Not hanging-on
: 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.
: 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.
: 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.
Our past choices account for the suffering and happiness we experience now.
Our current and future choices will determine our future level of happiness
: 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.
# Friday
Everyone already meditates at least a little whether they know it or not.
Meditation is just a word we use to describe purposefully distracting ourselves from our usual auto-pilot mental habit.
So anything like taking a deep cleansing breath to relax and refocus is meditating.
: 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.
Many of us go from, Yes, I meditate. to, I used to meditate. somewhere along the line and never get back to it.
If you happen to be someone who used to meditate, youre always just one choice away from, Yes, I meditate!
Letting-go is releasing stuff from the past...not hanging-on happens in the present and future.
Deep down in the subconscious mind,
Beneath the surface, you will find
That most of us are much the same.
But like a moth to candle flame
Attracted yet afraid to touch,
We dance around the darkness such
That each produces paths of flight
Projected in a different light.
: 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.