Our out-of-sight out-of-mind tendencies can keep
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.
Test your Subconscious:
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.
Our Stress and Anxiety Relief Program provides immediate relief and long-term benefits for a more permanent stress and anxiety relief solution.
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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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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.
It depends on if you are a morning person or someone who wakes up slowly.
If you wake up slowly it could be better to meditate later in the day or evening...or at least wait until you're fully feeling awake.
I had 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.
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We choose how to interpret what were experiencing, then decide how to react to our own interpretations. We do this over and over and call it thinking.
Making better decisions for happier outcomes only takes getting better at making these two choices. So practicing paying attention to them is practicing at being happier.
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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.
If you have difficulties when paying attention to breathing such as a lack of breath or feel a heaviness on your chest, common with people who have asthma, instead of paying attention to breathing, silently count down 3,2,1 then start over at 3 again.
The first step is to learn what goes on subconsciously, see:
Then practice being mindful of your of your subconscious in your normal daily activities. There is a great self-awareness practice to help with this at:
Probably because you're using a meditation that doesn't address both the thinking mind and your awareness. If we don't occupy both the we're easily distracted.
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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.
Kicking myself for calling by its former name in my dream last night. My has a lot to answer for.
It's pretty easy to look at people and see who were the in their previous - people doesn't solve anything. doesn't necessarily solve anything. Killing people just throws the unresolved issues into the of the collective to rear the of cause and effect into the unsuspecting, experientially unconscious, next generation.
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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.
Purposely distracting ourselves from our normal auto-pilot mental habits and changing them, along with creating a new mental association, gives us an easy, highly effective, and more permanent stress and anxiety relief solution.
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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.
It can seem like we make an endless number of choices, but we really only ever make the same two choices over and over againand call it thinking.
1. We choose how to interpret a situation, and then
2. Decide how to react to our own interpretation.
Although it can seem that we react to others or external forces, we only ever react to ourselves.
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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.
We can create brand new helpful mental associations. A great example is the Stress And Anxiety Relief and Nature-Based Meditation programs.