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Meditation | StoneWater Zen Centre

ppl may disagree with me here, but posture is quite important, Not so much your legs, it doesn't matter if you do it sitting on a chair, in lotus(full or half) or Burmese, the most important thing is you align your spine/back properly with you pelvis, helps if your knees are lower than your arse, I found this out the hard way, withOut good posture it hard to sit for a long time.

When you are sitting, I tend to count breaths (breath in, 1, breath out, 2 etc etc) up to 10 and restart again or when ever a thought pops into your head restart and keep focusing on counting your breaths.

Don't resist the thoughts just let them wash over you, don't hold on to them or try and push them away. A good way to think about it is that you brain is like any other organ in you body like for example you salvia glands under your tongue but instead of pumping out salvia it pumps out thoughts. The key is not to get attached to the thoughts.

When you first start it might be a struggle to get past one or two breaths before skull cinema kicks in, when it does it not a problem just let the thoughts flows out of you and restart.

There is an element of discipline, as it is, quite uncomfortable to just sit and do nothing, because we are conditioned to need constant stimulation but keep at it and enjoy the process/act of sitting and notice the inner calm that results

Basically what I said, scientifically proven.

The guy talks about studies carried out on groups of people. Some who meditated, some who didn't, & then had to carry out tasks or take part in things (i think. It's been 6 months since I watched it) & the results show that the meditation groups performed better or had more positive results, even in a short space of time.

As I might have mentioned my therapist has encouraged me to use mindfulllness (Just focusing on breathing, or even say your foot and listen deeply noting sounds around you). He encourages it to be done with open eyes and to simply take note of all the things in your environment. I think ther whole point he's getting me to do this is to stop me getting stuck in my head and to be more aware of externalities.

I've nevrr really done this as "dedicated" medication - more done it in short bursts for a few minutes at a time but might try initially doing it for 10 minutes.

Does anybody do this simply sitting in a chair or even lying down? (Kinda hard doing it lying down with your eyes open focusing on your surrundings if your staring at the ceiling lol).

Meditation is good, I mean its better than sitting around doing nothing HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hahahaha Thanks you've been great, good night guys.

I lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling.

Trying to become more consistent with meditating, I think I will do 30 days straight and report back on the experience afterwards

I started a meditation course last week. We spent 20 or so minutes 'experiencing' a raisin, that is touching it, smelling it, hearing it & tasting it.

Our homework is to do do a body scan for 20 minutes each day. I sit in a chair and listen to a recorded track where the instructor talks you through feeling sensations in different parts of your body. It's very difficult but I'm going to stick with it. My brain is always on the go and I want to be in control of it more.

ive just found a free session tonight at manchester buddhist centre at 5:45 - 6:45 if anyone wants to join me?

I was at the beach the other day & I disappeared up into the high sand dunes & found a nice spot to sit & look out over the sea.

I sat there, eyes open as always, & meditated for about 10 minutes before I got disturbed by my niece & her daddy.

It was a fucking perfect place for meditation & when we hit the beach again before we go home, I'll be doing a couple of hours there in one session.

Does anyone listen to any meditation music?

If so is it good? Bad? Ugly? Etc