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This is what I do: 1. Meditate every day 2. I have the following text file on my desktop. Answer the questions before you start, then start, and do nothing el
by rthomas6 8y ago
This is what I do:
1. Meditate every day
2. I have the following text file on my desktop. Answer the questions before you start, then start, and do nothing else but the steps listed for the amount of time listed.
What are my steps?
Why accomplish this?
Provide a conductive environment:
(Make a list here of actions to take to get you ready to start (bathroom, water, close door, close other programs, etc.))
What length of continuous time will I work on this?
Doing step 2 has always worked when I actually fill out the answers.
- dewang 8y agoAny practical recommendations on how to get into a daily meditation habit. Do you use an app like Headspace? Any special mind hacks you use?
- rthomas6 8y agoI greatly prefer silent meditation. People prefer different things, so ymmv. My advice is to carve out 30 minutes in the morning and just start. Pick a focus; most people pick a sensation of breathing. While focusing on this, observe what your mind and body do, without reacting to it, and without judging it or yourself. When your attention wanders, re-focus it without judgement. This will happen a lot, noticing your attention wandering and re-focusing is part of the practice. It will happen less and less over time. There are no mind hacks, but here are some things that might be helpful to look out for. These are things to verify for yourself through direct insight: don't take my word for it. * Your thoughts are not actually part of your identity. You are not your thoughts, judgements, emotions, etc. The "voice in your head" is not you. * Most people actually see and live in a landscape of subjective thoughts based on reality, instead of seeing and living in reality directly. * People are primarily harmed not by events, but by their reaction to the events.