Try Meditating

“1) Notice your feelings

2) Notice your visual thoughts

3) Notice your verbal thoughts

4) Notice all three together”
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_{via Deconstructing Yourself,, “Untangle and Be Free”}

“Everything we experience happens within our mind. Anger, fear, frustration and all our negative mental states begin and end within us. No one gives them to us and no one can take them away. We do it to ourselves. As we begin to understand this, we can peacefully let them go. Not attempting to drive them away with an attitude of, ‘I shouldn’t feel like this,’ but to see them for what they really are, impersonal movements of mind, not ‘me,’ not ‘mine,’ not what ‘I am.’

They are like visitors to your house. Perhaps you don’t like them, but you can still be kind and polite. You don’t have to ask them to stay, but you don’t need to throw them out either. Eventually, and without any fuss, they will grow tired and leave by themselves.”

This meditation video provides a link to a mindfulness meditation guide written by Shinzen Young. May be interesting to read.

Have been taking time to “sit” periodically. Makes a difference in calming down.

“A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.”
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Totally true.

Sat for a few minutes and visualized things. So valuable ~ and calming

Listening to Mingyur Rinpoche talk about meditation.

Worked great.

Money diet version: Working my way through meditation books.
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Read this article about the benefits of meditation on the brain:

“Previous studies found that the brains of long-term meditators had increased amounts of so-called gray and white matter (the former is believed to be involved in processing information; the latter is thought of as the “wiring” of the brain’s communication system.)”

post is such great advice.

“Step 1: Feel the ground beneath your feet. First chakra.”
“Step 2: Stay true to who you are. Second chakra.”
“Step 3: Focus on what’s important. Third chakra.”
“Step 4: LOVE. Fourth chakra.”
“Step 5: Be true to yourself and others. Fifth chakra.”
“Step 6: Awaken your insight and find balance. Sixth chakra.”
“Step 7: Let it BE. Seventh chakra.“

~ via MindBodyGreen