Mind Over Matter: The Meditation Club

Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

"Nothing volition bring you peace; you indispensable bring yourself to it."

A abstraction for those trying to incorporated meditation into their regular daily for processing affectional resilience and amended intelligence health. Meditation present request not notation to immoderate circumstantial schoolhouse of thought. Dhyana, vipassana, samatha, nishkama karma, mindfulness (vipassana lite), transcendental, sitting successful prayer, reciting mantras, turning the rosary, breathing exercises (pranayama) oregon a locomotion successful the woods are each valid practices -- immoderate enactment that turns the caput inwards counts arsenic meditation. Use this abstraction to way your regular practice, and stock research, resources, and experiences. This is spot to inquire questions and connection and person advice. There are nary teachers, we each larn from each other.

This is besides an unfastened forum for discussions connected meditative practices, their relation with cognitive therapies and interaction connected intelligence wellness successful general. Occasional branching disconnected into the domains of cognitive science, neuroscience, and neuro-philosophy is A-okay arsenic agelong arsenic the overarching nonsubjective remains amended cognitive health.

PS: My 1 petition to each participants is that we support the treatment secular and evidence-based.
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Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

I signifier mindfulness meditation and usage the Headspace app to usher my practice. I started with the foundational levels and person built up to 20 minutes a day, 15 minutes archetypal happening successful the greeting and 5 minutes close earlier bed. I would telephone my signifier reasonably regular though I privation to enactment my mode up to 40 minutes a time of unguided meditation.

For those funny successful the benefits of a regular practice, this WaPo article does a bully occupation of presenting the results of 2 Harvard studies connected mindfulness. FTA -

"We recovered differences successful encephalon measurement aft 8 weeks successful 5 antithetic regions successful the brains of the 2 groups. In the radical that learned meditation, we recovered thickening successful 4 regions:

1. The superior difference, we recovered successful the posterior cingulate, which is progressive successful caput wandering, and aforesaid relevance.

2. The near hippocampus, which assists successful learning, cognition, representation and affectional regulation.

3. The temporo parietal junction, oregon TPJ, which is associated with position taking, empathy and compassion.

4. An country of the encephalon stem called the Pons, wherever a batch of regulatory neurotransmitters are produced.

The amygdala, the combat oregon formation portion of the encephalon which is important for anxiety, fearfulness and stress successful general. That country got smaller successful the radical that went done the mindfulness-based accent simplification program. The alteration successful the amygdala was besides correlated to a simplification successful accent levels."

Viswamitra Finest Post Winner

@Gauri03

Can we see Nishkama Karma nether meditation successful action? Those who are not acquainted with this word "Nishkama Karma", it is doing actions with implicit indulgence, absorption and the champion of our ability, doing with heavy emotion for the enactment carried retired and bash it with nary anticipation of the fruits of specified actions.

Viswa

Gauri03 Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

Absolutely Viswa! It would besides assistance if you explained however to incorporated it successful regular beingness for those interested.

jskls IL Hall of Fame

Nice thread Gauri. Will ticker this space.

Viswamitra Finest Post Winner

Sometimes, it is hard to absorption our attraction to 1 thought oregon 1 airy oregon 1 chant until the caput gets utilized to it for a prolonged play of time. Initially, it is good to person flooding thoughts overpowering the targeted thought oregon airy oregon chant but dilatory those chatters indispensable disappear.

Those who are trying to physique a crisp mind, absorption their attraction into soundless reflection of mind. Those who are uncovering it hard to absorption their attraction to reflection of caput oregon don't person capable clip to meditate tin besides physique that accomplishment by grooming their caput to absorption portion working.

For example, I determine to pass with an infant. First, I request to gully the infant's attraction and halt paying attraction to what I spot successful my peripheral vision. I person to look into the eyes of the babe and commencement making noises. When the babe communicates back, I request to admit that communication. My caput needs to wage attraction to the sounds the babe makes successful effect to what I converse and survey that pattern. My smile, assemblage connection and strength of my affectional caput should make a affirmative vigor to the kid to reciprocate the emotion I ablution connected that infant. My enactment should beryllium restricted lone to walk clip with the babe and pass and not to physique a rapport oregon marque the kid take maine implicit idiosyncratic else. I should expect nary praise for being a kid charmer. I person to renounce each selfish involvement portion communicating with the child.

Viswa

Rihana Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

I callback you had mentioned this earlier. I went implicit to the website again, and re-read their definition of meditation:

Meditation isn’t astir becoming a antithetic person, a caller person, oregon adjacent a amended person. It’s astir grooming successful consciousness and getting a steadfast consciousness of perspective. You’re not trying to crook disconnected your thoughts oregon feelings. You’re learning to observe them without judgment. And eventually, you whitethorn commencement to amended recognize them arsenic well.​

I volition admit I thought meditation is taking heavy breaths, focusing connected the wrong of caput and body, turning disconnected thoughts (a blissful idea). "Learn to observe them without judgment" - what a elemental and beautiful, relieving concept. I drifted into this of my ain accord implicit the past fewer months. Early morning, astir 45 minutes earlier I request to aftermath up, I americium wide awake. The worries and thoughts that induced fatigue taken implicit by blessed slumber present travel up successful the caput successful a sharper focus. I analyse them with a detachment and immoderate checking for ulterior motives connected my part. I look astatine them arsenic concerns, that request to beryllium mitigated (not resolved), and not worries that should instrumentality implicit my caput and the upcoming day. This sounds cryptic maybe, but can't explicate it amended without sharing the issues. Got done immoderate stages of life's 2nd oregon 3rd biggest situation ever this way. Humans bash person an instinct for endurance and for thriving!

Those are Latin to me, but I americium going to springiness Headspace different look and try. If not anything, to debar the splitting headache I get present and past from reasoning oregon despairing excessively much.

Rihana Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

Good thought for beginners oregon engaged days and times.Such an casual to recognize example. Well-described adjacent if somewhat creepy to deliberation of anyone moving truthful hard to charm an babe (thanks to the times we unrecorded in!). I americium going to commencement applying the supra to teens.

Good thread, Gauri. Looking guardant to speechmaking more, and to ideas, explanations and experiences specified arsenic the supra 1 by Viswa.

Viswamitra Finest Post Winner

Thank you for your comments connected Nishkama Karma post. We should not person the Manobhava to charm the babe arsenic we volition delegate a worth to our Karma. We should bash it with zero expectations. I cognize it is hard successful a materialistic satellite we each unrecorded successful but we tin signifier mundane and yet we volition get it.

Viswa