I started meditating shortly after finishing
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
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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.
Explore your Subconscious:
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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!
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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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Who meditated today, and what technique did you use
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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.
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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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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.
Just kick back in a comfortable chair, or lay down, and notice your natural breathing in and out while relaxing all the muscles in your body. Let your body become more and more relaxed with each exhale for up to 15 minutes.
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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.
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An evolution of stepping over the line from only knowing what we think, to knowing how were thinking in real time so we can validate the thoughts we have to make better decisions for more productive and happier outcomes moving forward.
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Because meditation works by replacing our current mental habits with new ones through repetition, and it takes an average of 66 days for new mental habits to form, give yourself at least a couple of months to see real progress towards meeting your long term goals such as creating a new stress and anxiety response habit.
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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.
Meditation works by replacing current mental habits with new ones through repetition.
Think of it like a software upgrade...is it the same computer
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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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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.
I'm glad you mentioned good gut instincts. I've read/heard many horror stories where a woman, upon learning that a man they had spent time with turned out to be a killer/rapist/sociopath/other horrible thing, expressed shock and said they had no idea.
To be safe, it's important for everyone to listen to their gut. If you've got a bad feeling about a social situation, there's probably a reason for it. The subconscious is smart
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Dream last night: I saw the word "challenge" transform into "change" and I've been thinking about that all day.
CHALLENGE
CHA NGE
CHANGE
Twitching or other physical movements during meditation are commonplace when the body is releasing trauma or stress.
You can also vibrate your limbs and body for as little as 10 seconds before coming to a full stop to release stress or trauma.
Hope this helps.
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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.
We know the levels of suck that kinda sucks, that sucks, that really sucks. And they can correspond with levels of stupid that was dumb, that was stupid, that was really stupid.
We know if we do something really stupid, its probably really going to suckthats KARMA...simple cause and effect.
Meditation, as a practice, distracts us from our normal auto-pilot thought patterns and gives us a better understanding of how our minds work.
Its the distraction itself that allows us space to mentally relax, which is why something as simple as pausing to take a deep breath can help us relax and refocus.
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1. Meditation is anything we purposely do to distract ourselves from our auto-pilot mental habits.
2. Meditation works by replacing our current mental habits with new ones through repetition.
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