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This isn’t meditation or mindfulness, it’s just an aspirational sales pitch for it that says nothing about how fucking hard it is when you’re dealing with non-t
by ljm 9y ago
This isn’t meditation or mindfulness, it’s just an aspirational sales pitch for it that says nothing about how fucking hard it is when you’re dealing with non-trivial stuff. Nobody at any level below enlightenment will let go of any particular emotion and let it pass by, just by engaging in this practice.
There is no letting go unless your meditation practice has first allowed you to fully express that which is holding you back.
Meditation isn’t just getting into the zone.
- phailhaus 9y ago> Nobody at any level below enlightenment will let go of any particular emotion and let it pass by, just by engaging in this practice. Have you tried? It's not easy. It's taken months but my anxiety has noticeably decreased, though there's still a long way to go. Several times I've "let my guard down" and relapsed, thinking that I didn't have to try so hard anymore. I've come to admit that it's going to be a daily thing that I have to watch for, though it does get easier. > There is no letting go unless your meditation practice has first allowed you to fully express that which is holding you back. Yes, that's exactly what you have to do. You can't let something go if you don't know what it is. Maybe you have an inaccurate idea of what mindfulness is?
- empath75 9y agoI’m no zen monk but I do this on a very surface level, detaching myself from my current emotions and trying to observe them going by. I’ve found it useful in controlling anger and anxiety. Does it solve it? No. But I do find it useful and it doesn’t take that much effort or practice to get some value out of it.