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Living in the moment 12 months ago

An interesting article from Psychology Today.

Living in the moment is, I suspect, what I’m trying to do with this goal, rather than the deeper aspects of full-on meditation.

It also occurs to me that perhaps this is why I spend ‘waste’ so much time, online or playing games or vegged in front of the tv: it turns my brain off. I stop thinking about then and whenever, and 20 billion other things, and just drift along with whatever. If I could change the drift to more of a focus, and yet still retain that calm one-thing-at-a-time mindstate… yes :)

Dec 28, 2008, 04:56AM PST | 13 cheers


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Picasso's Muse

Meditation

I’ll be joining you in this. I used to do it and then got out of the habit. I’m sure the biggest challenge will be turning off the TV/computer ie just doing it!

Dec 28, 2008, 02:32PM PST | Respond to this 2 cheers

daringdaisy

I want to do this too

but I think I’ll do a course because I just never get around to it alone. A teacher once told me that if you think of meditation as silent sitting, because that’s what it really is, it’s much easier. I still find it a little boring and difficult to just sit still… I find yoga (ashtanga) quite meditative because you have to focus on your breath and count all the time, so there’s no space for other thoughts. Well, at least in theory there isn’t, but my mind still wanders….
And running is good too, but I would still like to start meditating properly. I’ll definitely join you on this goal at some point in 2009.

Dec 28, 2008, 03:48PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

calypte snowed in!!!

cool :)

I think that strict definition of meditation has been getting in my way for too long – so, anything that works be it breathing, yoga, visualisation – all good :)

Dec 29, 2008, 01:45AM PST | Respond to this 3 cheers

jansu Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Love that cartoon!

Thanks for the link to the article too.

Dec 30, 2008, 07:13AM PST | Respond to this


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