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Mindfulness and mediation are great for disengaging from vices and building resilience to addictive triggers and compulsive thinking. I wish someone taught me
by sizzle 8y ago
Mindfulness and mediation are great for disengaging from vices and building resilience to addictive triggers and compulsive thinking.
I wish someone taught me mediation to rebalance my thoughts as early as high school so I could be more introspective and have more control over my insecurities/tendency to think compulsively.
- nicoburns 8y agoIMO, meditation should be taught even to really young kids (say, 4 years old upwards). I imagine they would benefit just as much. Interestingly, some alternative education systems seem to have such an approach. In the waldorf/steiner system (at least this is what I was told), the early years are supposed to be about learning personal discipline and how to work with others. With reading/writing not taught until later (age 7). The idea being that the kids will learn much quicker if they can concentrate and focus on their work. Makes a lot of sense to me.
- HNLurker2 8y agoIMO, we should all become monks (if you live in Theravada country its tradiion) at age 20 and then give up. Why? You have great experience, and no one obligees you to stay. You can stay for a few months (Like countries Vietnam, Cambodia etc)