Anyone have recommendations for ~10 min guided #meditations for people who haven't done any #meditating before? I'm teaching a class on #well-being this semester and want to have the students do some #meditation. Thanks for recommendations!

I've been #meditating according to #Buddhist methods for two months now and this is what I found:

I was hoping to tame my rage and get better sleep with less thoughts running through my mind and both things have happened. I'm also more patient and kinder because I'm taking the time to think before I act/speak.

#meditation #wellness #Buddhism

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When #meditating on your back porch, it’s hard to focus on the speed of your breath when you feel the large bug crawling across the back of your neck. #SerenityNow

I'm not going to be on #Mastodon much today. I'm going to be #meditating in a day-long #Zen #retreat that my group is holding through #Zoom.

We've been doing #Zoom retreats since the start of the #pandemic. I don't think they are ever going to go away. However, we've restarted going retreats in person too.

#ZenRetreat #Buddhism #ZenBuddhism

One Simple Trick To Master Your Mind If You’re Having Trouble Meditating

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https://www.bplace.com/one-simple-trick-to-master-your-mind-if-youre-having-trouble-meditating/

#masteryourmind #mind #simple #motivation #meditation #meditating #mindset #inspiration #lifecoaching

Can 'Writing Meditation' work when you're writing in your own words? I write as a kind of therapy. Am I #meditating instead if I end my writes with similar #positivity encouraged here in this pack? 🤔#FoodForThought

#Blogging #MentalHealth #MentalHealthBlogger #NewbieBlogger

https://www.mindfulnessmeditationinstitute.org/resources/#self-compassion

I've been stressed out lately with some good, old fashioned life happening at me, but one of the things that's been helping a lot is #meditating before bed.

"How did you learn to meditate, Mr. Defy?" You ask with a child-like innocence, as I throw my head back in boisterous laughter and tousle your hair.

Please, call me ADH. Mr. Defy was my estranged uncle that went to federal prison for burning down the post office he worked for in the '70s.

To answer your question, I learned by playing #VideoGames. Specifically, a game called #Playne. It is very cool and a cute polygonal fox instructs you in mindfulness and meditation techniques--BUT I just learned that the developer made a sequel called #Inward that is similar in concept but also involves journaling and cultivating a beautiful island, and it's totally freeeeeee!!

If you have an interest in learning about casual #meditation and you have a #Windows or #Linux PC (or a #SteamDeck), give it a shot!

#PCGaming #FreeGames #FreeGamesOnSteam

So, lately, I’m thinking a fair amount about #artificialintelligence & the so-called existential threat it might pose for us… (especially #ChatGPT & #writing )

With an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them mentality, I’m even exploring a career in #PromptEngineering (aka as ‘AI whisperer’) — kind of #coding without coding, to help #ai produce better results.

Meantime, while ##meditating on this brave new world & how I can take part in it, been messing around with #ai #art …

#today #JoinIn #life

After a lot of #thinking and #meditating on it, I've decide to shut down my mastodon instance. I just can't afford it right now. The storage is killing me. I also really miss the local feed. I'll move over to universedon soon

@markcooper

This isn't an answer, but more mulling on my part.

I've experienced #meditating in dreamless sleep (evidenced by waking up in the middle of the set jhānas sequence—the sequence had started "without the waking state me").

That helps shift my relationship with the waking state "me"—it, too, like sleep and the jhānas is a generated event.

Seems so long as I don't appreciate that contingent, generated status of waking functioning, I'm a bit deluded and not clued in and "suffering."

I just restocked this #Meditating #Bear print in my shop, in case you were interested! 💛

Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TiffanyKingArtwork

#nature #animals #artmatters #mastoart #painting #art #etsy #mountains

I just restocked this #Meditating #Bear print in my shop, in case you were interested! 💛

Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TiffanyKingArtwork

#nature #animals #artmatters #mastoart #painting #art #etsy #mountains

@halcy

They - the cat - are #meditating.

Have you ever seen someone asleep in #padmasana (Lotus Position)?

3 things I learned after #meditating for 100 weeks straight
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-consistently-meditate

The places my mind wanders when #meditating are almost always moments in the past where I did or said something boneheaded.

My new way of handling this is by telling myself to extract the pearl from the embarrassing moment, the lesson. Let the shell of the embarrassment crumble away and tuck the pearl into my "third eye" and absorb it for better reactions in future stressful situations.

Then return to the breath.

#meditation #meditate #breath #breathe

I’ve been #meditating since 2016 but started tracking it in the summer of 2020, accounted for in this graphic. I’m hardly disciplined, but it’s amazing how the time (and the life lessons) add up. #meditation

The #sleep #position which can give you instant #relaxation is generally referred as #fetal position. In this position, a person's #body imitates that of a #baby in the mother's womb. #Meditation has been demonstrated in clinical trials to help people. By #meditating you can start to quiet the #mind as well as the #body. And that also helps you fall back asleep more easily. https://www.myshalz.com/2022/12/improve-sleeping-posture-for-better.html

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do" - C.G.Jung

#Jung was lost in his head over that claim.

In #Truth we are neither what we #Say or what we #Do

We are the #Being that may say or do. We are not our #Shadows

That's the difference of #Mental #Meditation & #Meditating from #Within our #Soul and #Spirits

Many are #Lost in their #Heads and #Bodies #Thinking they are those things. You may have them temporarily in #Body but you still #Exist when you are #Disembodied #Spirits

If you're ever #meditating - especially on a traumatizing subject - and you start to get the shakes, let them shake themselves out. Touching a traumatic memory can trigger shaking or crying to release the tension that is the traumatic experience.

Like a dog shaking off a really good petting session and resetting to zero.

If you fight it you reinforce the trauma instead of letting it process and pass.

You can’t get very far without #grace. Expressing #grace manifests more of it, and helps lovingly release that which is no longer serving us. While #meditating on grace, spare some for the most difficult to embrace and love unconditionally, yourself. The #wounded child that was (and is) you needs it most of all. Namaste, y’all