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The antidote to this mental calcification is meditation. As I've become more skilled at meditation, I view things less through my old filters and more as they
by orasis 12y ago
The antidote to this mental calcification is meditation. As I've become more skilled at meditation, I view things less through my old filters and more as they are, in this moment.
- jonawesomegreen 12y agoAny advice for someone getting started with meditation, or resources you have found helpful?
- wanderingstan 12y agoI'm by no means an expert, but "Mindfulness in Plain English" was the most helpful text in getting me started. There are several places to read it free online or download a PDF. E.g. http://www.mindfulvalley.org/files/books/mindfulness_plain_english.pdf http://www.mindfulvalley.org/files/books/mindfulness_plain_e... To the original poster, I'm not so sure meditation would be the cure-all for all of the problems mentioned. I could see it helping with calming a mind overflowing with ancient "context". But the author indicated that this manifests more as slowness than with anxiety.
- tedks 12y agoSo you're systematically stripping away the value of integrating skills from your conscious, procedural mind to your intuitive, parallel processing mind? Sounds awful. How do you debug?
- orasis 12y agoIntuitively