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why do you keep doing it if you see no benefit whatsoever?

• throw1234651234 7y ago
  Helps me fall asleep fast. But so does running through the relaxing individual body parts exercise. Maybe out of paranoia that I am missing something and I only do it for 10 minutes a day. Oh, and good ideas come to me while I am trying not to focus on anything. Almost like the mind is trying to find an excuse to break single-point attention. edit: Also, meditation traditions are found all over the world - for example a Christian mystic, Teresa of Avila meditated all the time. edit 2 in reply to below: Sure, semantics, but you are definitely right to some degree. The difference is that the mechanism behind relaxation is clear.
  • nicoburns 7y ago
    > so does running through the relaxing individual body parts exercise Isn't that a form of meditation too?
    • pvarangot 7y ago
      Yes, they call it mindfulness now in techmonad but it's also been around forever.
  • nprateem 7y ago
    "Be still and know that I am God" could be viewed as an instruction to meditate.
• new2628 7y ago
  "When asked by a student about the use of geometry, Euclid responded by giving him three obols (coins), since "he must need make gain out of what he learns."