I’ve written articles on mindfulness, shared quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh and Sharon Salzberg.
I’ve even given you some links to Youtube videos and a sneak peak of Mark Thornton’s work Meditation in a NY Minute.
So, how it changed your practice?
Do you have a daily practice?
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Let us know what works, doesn’t work, what helps and what makes it a tougher struggle. . .
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I’ve had a daily practice since February, only missing a few days here and there. I am still learning new aspects of the practice every day. For example, yesterday I learned that it is not easy to meditate to babpipes. Who knew? 🙂
Bagpipes sounds perfect to develop yor practice. You a can go way beneath those sounds.
Have you ever tried using a model or do,you count the breahs. Where do you get lost in thought?
Always at the pauses or transitions of the inhale and exhale, probably.
if you are interestedI have developed a dole that makes indflness easier and makes thoughts easier to let go.
Many was to deepen your practice.
You got it – at the pauses:)
Yep, me too
Try this and see if it is easier, you can actually trace this with eyes open to get used to it.
http://ptsdawayout.com/2012/05/27/the-breathing-track-secrets-i-think/
I’ve gone through periods of regular morning meditation. These days I’m practicing my mindfulness moment-to-moment throughout the day. Just taking a breath and letting the busyness drain away from my thinking. Pausing to taste the food, really. Feeling my presentness with another person. Anyhow, that’s where I am now and it feels right.
As I work through post trauma flashbacks currenting through my days, presently, formal practices of breathing and quieting the mind awaken. I am more decided, each day, in understanding how much calmer I feel, even in the scariest part of PTSD chaos. I’m less exhausted by flashbacks… and I can breathe myself out of mental loops, over time… and with patience.
I wish they had group breathing as part of daily programs on mental health units. Maybe it’s part of future treatment programs, though, and I was part of a past where meds seemed like an easier, more effective answer to accomodate our weird need for instant solutions.
Maybe telling you this will help someone else know that meditation is not hocus pocus–it’s biology in action.
Whatever time spent is well spent. My practice has become habitual I believe. haaha
The time involved is not that important but a goal of what mindfulness is aimed at, maybe. by that I mean, we strive to reach a state empty of thought but focused and aware of our breathing intimately.
if that takes five minutes great. This is what we work towards. So we progress from small moments of focus without thought to minutes focused.
Then the key to make mindfulness/meditation bloom is to apply it to every thought or emotion that arrives in our consciousness.
When we feel resentment or awkward pull back and follow the Breath. Now feel the sensation without the thought Use your mindfulness to explore emotions and thoughts as mind functions not us. try with with all emotions, joy, anger, regret etc.
We meditate to explore our inner world and discover thought are powerless and being present empty of thought sets the mind free.
Aplly your practice if you want to benefit even more. practice take action and let go of control and fear.
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