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hi all,
I've decided that it's time to take control of my mind and brain. It's
funny how we learn to walk, we learn to move our body, and we figure
out the bare minimum to get through life, and don't really learn to use
our minds to their full potential.
Meditation won't be the only tool here, but I think it will be an
important cornerstone to what I want to accomplish. See, I think I
should be able to feel any way I want, when I want. Given that all
feelings/emotions are the result of some thought process, it's all
about being aware of, and taking control of, those thought processes.
For example, just look at motivation. Let's say you're
trying to get in shape, but exercise feels like such a chore, and you
just think about how hard it'll be, and that causes you to
procrastinate. Then, you ask someone for advice, and they say something
like, "well you just have to force yourself to do it." Ooooh, that
doesn't sound like fun at all! Why does nobody see a problem with
defining "will power" as "forcing yourself to do things against your
will?" That seems like the source of much internal friction!
Instead, I think I should be able to adjust my will. When it's time to exercise, I should be able to genuinely feel like there is NOTHING I desire to do more than to exercise. I should want to go and exercise so much that I want it even more than I want to just sit on my ass and browse youtube or whatever. :) It shouldn't take any kind of "forcing myself to be consistent" or any such silliness.
Or what if you see someone who catches your attention and you want to go and find out what she's like... hmm, what if instead of hesitating and following your old belief structure, you could instantly get so playful and curious that you just go right over there and find out what she's like. What would life be like then?
Anyway, so yeah, to be able to powerfully feel the way I want to feel at all times, whether it's motivation, blissfulness, an adranaline rush, or curiosity, is my ultimate goal here. I can't think of any reason why, with a bit of learning, any of this should be any more difficult than the equivalent of reaching out and flipping a switch or pressing a button.
Anyone here got similar goals, or perhaps results and tips? I'd love to compare notes!
cheers!
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Hi,
Remember that when you meditate you are learning how to observe what arises in your experience. As you learn to not attach to these arising emotions, you gain freedom from the enertia of you thoughts.
Emotions -- we name these arising feeling, in our experience as emotions. Biochemicals or hormones are emotions. Emotions are biochemicals -- hormones. There are about 300 biochemicals in our bodies arising in our experience at about 300 miles per hour.
Being present...
Eric
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bowden
Vitarka
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Hi,
I think that with mindfulness practice you may find a different view of your thoughts and feelings than you have at present.
If you are just starting meditation you may like to take part in my meditation research. You will get access to free information on mindfulness and free downloadable MP3's containing guided mindfulness tracks.
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chay_25
Site Employee
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Points 57
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meditation is a way of disciplining yourself also. It has the ability to be conscious on how you feeling and thinking. Its a kind of changing your conditioned behaviors.
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One of my goals was to not speak so much and witness my thoughts and emotions more clearly. But I found that having a goal can be mental, and meditation is not mental. So I would say having a desire for something is good enough. If your desire is strong enough, your goal will be reached.
Instead of counting how many times I talked unneccesarily, instead I tell myself repeatedly during the day, "Just Watch." Meaning, just watch your surroundings, your being - if you don't have to give in to what your mind or emotions what to talk or show. Most of the time, the mind and emotions just want to show off - resulting from the ego.
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Hi,
I agree with your post completely. The ego is primarily concerned about survival. Any thoughts of comparison, judgement, assessment are thoughts that arise from your biochemical substrates that represent protection and fear.
We spend a good part of our lives unconsciously in fear and protection emotional states. When we learn that we have a choice, that we can separate our awareness from this unconscious emotional enertia - we become the observer - we are free. With freedom we can explore our interior without fear. Fear separates us from experiencing our infinite nature that we can only find by going within.
The recent developments in physics has revealed that our consciousnes is in fact connected at the atomic level among protons. All protons are black holes, All protons are entangled. Which means all atoms are entangled. All cells in our bodies are entangled. That means all of us (each having 50 trillion cells in each human body comprised of trillions upon trillions of atoms) are connected. Your presence matters to everyone.
Enjoy.
Eric
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I like meditate in movement, so I prefer tai chi (yang, wu, and chen). When sitting I use the method of whole body (keeping bai hui pulled upward) focus, and as something comes up...a thought, pain etd., I get back to the method. Shouldn't we eventually transcend method? Wholeness and Balance.
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haru19
Growth
Posts 39
Points 39
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[1] Some would contend that the attainment of enlightenment/liberation places one “beyond good and evil”. But the sense of that phrase should not be misconstrued as implying that one then becomes independent of morality. Quite the contrary, it means that one becomes so wise that one cannot imagine any trace of value whatsoever in immoral or amoral practices. The proof of that is that realized teachers always preach morality to their followers. Not because the teacher needs to remind himself of such strictures, but so as to preempt the followers from losing their way on the way to realization.
[2] I should add that I cannot, so far in my life, personally vouch for the feasibility of utter enlightenment, liberation and wisdom. I assume it to be possible, because many human traditions claim this to have been attained by some individuals: this is hearsay evidence in favor of the thesis. Moreover, it seems conceivable and reasonable to me that such heights of achievement should be possible. However, to be quite frank about it, I have not myself reached them. But even if I too were a live witness, the reader would still have to consider the information as second-hand, until if ever he or she in turn personally attained realization.
[3] This is the proactive spirit of koan meditation, advocated by the Rinzai Zen school, as opposed to the more “passive” looking zazen meditation, advocated by Soto school. The latter, which would be classified in the preceding paradigm of mountain climbing, is of course in fact not as passive as it would seem to the onlooker.
[4] The experience may be compared to being at some depth underwater, and deliberately swimming up to the surface.
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haru19
Growth
Posts 39
Points 39
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[1] Some would contend that the attainment of enlightenment/liberation places one “beyond good and evil”. But the sense of that phrase should not be misconstrued as implying that one then becomes independent of morality. Quite the contrary, it means that one becomes so wise that one cannot imagine any trace of value whatsoever in immoral or amoral practices. The proof of that is that realized teachers always preach morality to their followers. Not because the teacher needs to remind himself of such strictures, but so as to preempt the followers from losing their way on the way to realization.
[2] I should add that I cannot, so far in my life, personally vouch for the feasibility of utter enlightenment, liberation and wisdom. I assume it to be possible, because many human traditions claim this to have been attained by some individuals: this is hearsay evidence in favor of the thesis. Moreover, it seems conceivable and reasonable to me that such heights of achievement should be possible. However, to be quite frank about it, I have not myself reached them. But even if I too were a live witness, the reader would still have to consider the information as second-hand, until if ever he or she in turn personally attained realization.
[3] This is the proactive spirit of koan meditation, advocated by the Rinzai Zen school, as opposed to the more “passive” looking zazen meditation, advocated by Soto school. The latter, which would be classified in the preceding paradigm of mountain climbing, is of course in fact not as passive as it would seem to the onlooker.
[4] The experience may be compared to being at some depth underwater, and deliberately swimming up to the surface.
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vir
Instructor
Posts 1523
Points 1940
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Yes,Meenakshijsr,positive attitude and thinking itself is great meditation.Positivity makes you feel hand of God in every act of omission or commission.It not only gives you happiness it really,really gives you bliss.
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