yes once or twice a day..been doing this throughout my life from 21..
Does Anyone Here Meditate?
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Not as much nowadays.
How I start depends on the time & place. For me, it's a combination of conscious breathing and focusing on the current aim. That aim could be anything from me to my surroundings.
If I'm home and the aim is me or a particular goal, I get in a very comfortable position, focus on my breath, then direct that focus to the issue at hand.
But I also do this when I'm out sometimes. The difference will be that I'm not in as comfortable position, sometimes walking. And the aim is being aware of my surroundings.
As long as it takes. I've had short session, 5-10 minutes. I've had longer sessions, hour plus.
Try not to clear your mind as much as directing your focus on something. Start with your breath until you can focus on that for 5 minutes plus. Then try focusing on being aware of body parts. Then move to goals you have, trying to see them come to fruition, how it looks, how it feels.
I'm very basic with it at this point, haven't got into chakras and such.
so aim means, your goals or a certain task you have to perform during the day?
Aim means whatever you want it to mean. More times than not, for me, it's a goal, task or outcome. But many times it's just awareness of self, breath, surroundings, maybe lookin' for understandin' that I can't get from a book or person currently. Anything.
I wouldn't limit it. We're all in different places, on different levels, tryin' to accomplish different things. My only advice is to focus on just one thing per session, at least to start, not countin' the breathin'. I always start by focusin' on my breath to get, well, focused. Thinkin' about nothin' is near impossible if not impossible.
thanks, breh
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There are different schools of traditions as well techniques and methods of meditation but they all commonly involve the focused sustained attention on an object. This can be internal or external. The method most effective for most beginners is to pay attention to the breath as it enters and exit the tip of the nostrils. Do not force attention but be vigilant and watch passively. As you do this your mind will natually wander. This is the "forgetting" phase of meditation and may happen literally seconds after you begin focus. When this happens and you realise this, non judgementally redirect focus back on the sensation of the breath entering and exiting the nostrils.
In the early stages of practice you will bulk of the meditation in a cycle"forgetting", "waking", then recentering with only short periods of sustained awareness focused on the meditation object . As you train your mind daily and dilegently you should begin to experience the inverse, longer periods of focus on the breath with less willpower aimed at redirecting awareness back from distractive thoughts to the meditation object.
If you practice ever more diligently you can recognize the intent of a thought arising before it begins to lead the mind astray.
As I said this is explained more thoughroughly in The Mind Illuminated. I highly suggest you check it out.
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Billie Jean
everything I did wrong...worked.
I've been doing so for a couple of weeks--just sitting and focusing on the breath--and the changes are drastic. I do everything with much more clarity.
TheAlbionist
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Training the brain is like training any other muscle - you need to build stamina... the more you practise the longer you'll be able to go... and that'll start applying outside meditation too.
THIS. Your brain has ideas and thoughts - that's what it does, even when you're not asking it to. A properly trained consciousness can observe its thoughts and choose which ones to act on; the untrained consciousness follows its subconscious down every rabbit hole it invents.
OfTheCross
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CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
Do you do it laying down or sitting up?
OfTheCross
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I usually lay on the couch and set my alarm for 10 minutes...but sometimes I sit Indian style as well.
WaveCapsByOscorp™
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i do from time to time. really it's just concentration on your breathing. typically i do standing meditation. i try to do it every day or at least every other day. i do a set of qi gong stretches i learned following the meditation and centering. usually the process takes me 30-45 mins in total if i take my time with it. it lowers the heart rate, among other things, so it's naturally relaxing if you do it correctly.
WaveCapsByOscorp™
2021 Grammy Award Winner
don't worry if you mind wanders, just bring it back to center. the practice of meditation is not just a disciplining of the mind to think of one thing, but it's also an observation to see where your mind goes to as well. whatever you drift into is what's running thru your mind, you have to let it run thru so it can run out, not force it to stop. it's suppose to be relaxing. i wouldn't even say thinking about 'ass and tities' is a good thing unless you just want to be that man that thinks about that all the time,. but if you don't want to think about that all the time, you won't the more you practice.
Getting back into this along with fasting [usually within the months of February - with it being the shortest month or some Fall month]
Meditation is the most essential practice for profound advancement. I didn't understand this when I initially started my way towards divine acknowledgment. I ended up getting the basics and putting it down always until the point that it occurred to me: when every one of the books about mysticism (Sufi lore, Kabbalah), oils, herbs, and other thoughtful things are gone, the materialistic bullshyt is gone...... the sum total of what I have is my mind.
Meditation is the most essential practice for profound advancement. I didn't understand this when I initially started my way towards divine acknowledgment. I ended up getting the basics and putting it down always until the point that it occurred to me: when every one of the books about mysticism (Sufi lore, Kabbalah), oils, herbs, and other thoughtful things are gone, the materialistic bullshyt is gone...... the sum total of what I have is my mind.
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