TuRBO_RaINBOW
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Hey! Anyone have mindfulness practices they would like to share? I really enjoy mindfull walks personally. I like to notice the smell of the flowers, how the sun feels on my skin, ect. I find it very grounding.
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Robi
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I have been using the pool and just floating in the bay by kayak or by long board,letting the sea take me to the estuary, then I stare and the birds,till my ride shows up.There's some old grow oaks that I sit in and just do breathing techniques.In my home I focus in the moment and play with my dogs,being grateful I have them .
TuRBO_RaINBOW
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That sounds peaceful. I went to the beach on my birthday, it was really nice. What are your dogs names? I have a cat named Twiggy I love dearly. I named her after the famous super model of the same name form the 1960s
Robi
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I know of Twiggy.I have Pearl,Emmie,DD and Jesse....happy birthday!
TuRBO_RaINBOW
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So many dogs! I’m here for it. Pets are so key in the recovery journey. I’ve come a long way in the last couple of years personally. Quitting coke was a big win for me. Mindfulness has helped me a lot in that regard, as well.
exercise and coding, have to really overload to get to mindfulness.
i don't understand meditation at all, to me that's like the complete opposite because there's no pressure.
tea really helps get locked in, too. i'm more of a coffee guy but that really just gets me high.
i don't understand meditation at all, to me that's like the complete opposite because there's no pressure.
tea really helps get locked in, too. i'm more of a coffee guy but that really just gets me high.
TuRBO_RaINBOW
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I Also hate meditation. You aren't alone there. Ultimately, just do what works. It's more about being present then anything.
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And what do you think Meditation is?
The issue is "The West" has taken words like "Yoga" & "Meditation" & corrupted them & people make comments like what I quoted.
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Sitting, breathing, watching in a "Tao" style.
JUST BEING without baggage attached.
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KurtAurelius
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Although I have strong attachments to my thoughts, being mindful, in flow or a meditative state is best achieved for me through exercise, playing guitar or being in nature.
When playing the guitar, my awareness is solely on the sound of each note, watching the strings fret and unfret, the feel of both the strings across the left hand and then the pick plucking and strumming in the right.
When I either just noodle, or play a song that is total muscle memory it lends to a flow.
Whenever I have to “think” it allows perception to lapse over the awareness.
Both tools for different purposes, but even so I’ve written a lot of material first through awareness.
Playing through awareness lends to more peace. Whenever I’ve stopped playing it’s because my train of though has become heavy, and I’ve trained myself to bring myself back, but I do eventually get to a point where I let myself get slightly dismayed (I’ve played this loads of times before, that strum was clunky etc)
Exercise is similar. I breathe in on a positive and out on a negative.
With the eye view of whatever exercise, I view my starting position, and in awareness, position myself accordingly.
Say a Chin Up, supinate the bar into my carrying angle, brace my core, and tighten my feet together. Dead-hang, then watch my elbows flex, and without thought explosively but carefully pull to my clavicale, descending and feeling the last stretch into the dead hang.
All the while, feeling the texture of the bar, feeling the contraction of the bicep then the stretch of the lat, the strain on my core to maintain position.
Observing then the creeping sensation of each positive slowing, and observing the point of that grind, passing by any perception, and pulling until I fail the positive.
Each set performed like this, then sensing the rush after, keeping my breath focused, then instinctively to set up the next movement (I like just one top set)
Nature.. ahh. I watched Malcom in the middle a while ago and there’s a scene where they take a hiking trip or whatever. They stand at a dock, and the kids go “where’s the tv” Hal then points to a stunning view and go there’s your tv. (They all scream lol)
Like how when monged I will succumb to a observation of the TV, nature is its superior.
My issue is my proiperception (over awarness of the body, from my ADHD, and Autism) and I do get distracted from my body aching eventually when in one position, but through my meds and practice I have gotten better.
(This is why I like to cheat and walk!, moving in flow is easier than stillness, but I have a very feminine mind)
Across my place is a beautiful river bank, and I will sit in a ATG squat, and for 15 minutes, try not to dart my eyes, observe the “TV” concentrate and use insight (how much you notice simultaneously) passing by my perceptions musing of what it thinks it sees and rather stick to my observation, the rays of sun on the water, the sound of the birds, splashes of water, my feet on the ground, the smell of the air.
Not how I’ve described it just then, my whole life things have been viewed through a constructed thought, but rather than how I’ve used words to describe those observations, the observation is without the attachment of acknowledging. I’ve probably just dribbled but that’s the only way I can explain the difference atleast for me.
I’m a poor practitioner of this and have a child’s understanding of it,
So far I’ve resigned my mindfulness practice to be part of day to day life, through my actions and conversations. To not ignore but let thoughts pass like a breeze of wind. I’ve shelved my previous sessions of hours of sitting still for now, as I let myself believe my ego was constantly fighting and perceived the practice as just agony.
I don’t try to use my Neurodivergence as a excuse, even if I perceive it to make awareness harder, I tap into the avenues that lend to that eternal peace, the one and all which is always.
That to me is life, not my crafted “hallucination” that “my” consciousness believes it to be.
When playing the guitar, my awareness is solely on the sound of each note, watching the strings fret and unfret, the feel of both the strings across the left hand and then the pick plucking and strumming in the right.
When I either just noodle, or play a song that is total muscle memory it lends to a flow.
Whenever I have to “think” it allows perception to lapse over the awareness.
Both tools for different purposes, but even so I’ve written a lot of material first through awareness.
Playing through awareness lends to more peace. Whenever I’ve stopped playing it’s because my train of though has become heavy, and I’ve trained myself to bring myself back, but I do eventually get to a point where I let myself get slightly dismayed (I’ve played this loads of times before, that strum was clunky etc)
Exercise is similar. I breathe in on a positive and out on a negative.
With the eye view of whatever exercise, I view my starting position, and in awareness, position myself accordingly.
Say a Chin Up, supinate the bar into my carrying angle, brace my core, and tighten my feet together. Dead-hang, then watch my elbows flex, and without thought explosively but carefully pull to my clavicale, descending and feeling the last stretch into the dead hang.
All the while, feeling the texture of the bar, feeling the contraction of the bicep then the stretch of the lat, the strain on my core to maintain position.
Observing then the creeping sensation of each positive slowing, and observing the point of that grind, passing by any perception, and pulling until I fail the positive.
Each set performed like this, then sensing the rush after, keeping my breath focused, then instinctively to set up the next movement (I like just one top set)
Nature.. ahh. I watched Malcom in the middle a while ago and there’s a scene where they take a hiking trip or whatever. They stand at a dock, and the kids go “where’s the tv” Hal then points to a stunning view and go there’s your tv. (They all scream lol)
Like how when monged I will succumb to a observation of the TV, nature is its superior.
My issue is my proiperception (over awarness of the body, from my ADHD, and Autism) and I do get distracted from my body aching eventually when in one position, but through my meds and practice I have gotten better.
(This is why I like to cheat and walk!, moving in flow is easier than stillness, but I have a very feminine mind)
Across my place is a beautiful river bank, and I will sit in a ATG squat, and for 15 minutes, try not to dart my eyes, observe the “TV” concentrate and use insight (how much you notice simultaneously) passing by my perceptions musing of what it thinks it sees and rather stick to my observation, the rays of sun on the water, the sound of the birds, splashes of water, my feet on the ground, the smell of the air.
Not how I’ve described it just then, my whole life things have been viewed through a constructed thought, but rather than how I’ve used words to describe those observations, the observation is without the attachment of acknowledging. I’ve probably just dribbled but that’s the only way I can explain the difference atleast for me.
I’m a poor practitioner of this and have a child’s understanding of it,
So far I’ve resigned my mindfulness practice to be part of day to day life, through my actions and conversations. To not ignore but let thoughts pass like a breeze of wind. I’ve shelved my previous sessions of hours of sitting still for now, as I let myself believe my ego was constantly fighting and perceived the practice as just agony.
I don’t try to use my Neurodivergence as a excuse, even if I perceive it to make awareness harder, I tap into the avenues that lend to that eternal peace, the one and all which is always.
That to me is life, not my crafted “hallucination” that “my” consciousness believes it to be.
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TheBliss
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I, myself, love meditation. And do put aside some time everyday to sit crosslegged on a blanket on the floor in quietude and solitude. Giving me the time to just be with myself while also not doing anything.
In essense, thats what I personally think meditation is. Putting yourself in a way that you are doing nothing at all or almost nothing. So you are not playing the guitar or playing with your dogs or anything.
It's time that you have by yourself for yourself. Thats why the way you sit is also important. Because if you are sitting then you are doing something. You are sitting. But you want to get to a place where it's like you are not sitting at all.
People get zaboutons (meditation mats), zafus (meditation cushions) and meditation benches all for the reason to be doing nothing at all at the time set in place for their meditation.
So when it's time for you to meditate, you are not even thinking, for that is an act of doing.
One thing the could be the focus of your meditation is on your breathing. Breathing is something you have done since the day you were born yet you have paid no heed to it. It also is something that connects your inner being to the outer world. So you are to pay attention to it. That is as far as it goes with meditation.
But even then, while meditating, there is a time when you stop watching the breath either and are in a state of complete awareness. The breath is your avenue to get there.
So, hence, meditation is, in a way, an act of no act at all.
But I get what you say with your mindfulness, you can do mindfulness at any time. It's being present in the moment. Mindful walking is noticing the wind on your skin and the heat of the sun and your footsteps on the ground while walking.
Personally I do that all the time. Mindfulness is the way I live my life.
And when I sit to meditate, at times I do the complete silence and give time for myself.
But at other times, I do "prayers" and ask for the things I want in my life. I also visualize the kind of life I want to be living. So I do my own thing as well and it keeps me happy.
In essense, thats what I personally think meditation is. Putting yourself in a way that you are doing nothing at all or almost nothing. So you are not playing the guitar or playing with your dogs or anything.
It's time that you have by yourself for yourself. Thats why the way you sit is also important. Because if you are sitting then you are doing something. You are sitting. But you want to get to a place where it's like you are not sitting at all.
People get zaboutons (meditation mats), zafus (meditation cushions) and meditation benches all for the reason to be doing nothing at all at the time set in place for their meditation.
So when it's time for you to meditate, you are not even thinking, for that is an act of doing.
One thing the could be the focus of your meditation is on your breathing. Breathing is something you have done since the day you were born yet you have paid no heed to it. It also is something that connects your inner being to the outer world. So you are to pay attention to it. That is as far as it goes with meditation.
But even then, while meditating, there is a time when you stop watching the breath either and are in a state of complete awareness. The breath is your avenue to get there.
So, hence, meditation is, in a way, an act of no act at all.
But I get what you say with your mindfulness, you can do mindfulness at any time. It's being present in the moment. Mindful walking is noticing the wind on your skin and the heat of the sun and your footsteps on the ground while walking.
Personally I do that all the time. Mindfulness is the way I live my life.
And when I sit to meditate, at times I do the complete silence and give time for myself.
But at other times, I do "prayers" and ask for the things I want in my life. I also visualize the kind of life I want to be living. So I do my own thing as well and it keeps me happy.