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Add article on distractions and the tendency to drift towards sleep
- Distractions happen, link to Ebbs and Flows
- Don't let distractions discourage you
- It may help to remove numbers from your exercises
- Make distractions be reminders of the practice
- seeing the dog walking by reminds you to breathe
- Don't let distractions discourage you
- Sometimes meditation beginners can notice the tendency to drift towards sleep
- https://aboutmeditation.com/fall-asleep-meditating/
- Suggest not
- doing meditation in bed, even sitting
- doing meditation when tired
- doing meditation laying down (unless you have some external force making you, it works better for you like that or the phase of the moon or something)
- When you feel the sleepy feelings during meditation, metaphorically look at them
- Study them
- What are they saying?
- Where do they come from?
- What does it feel like?
whereas a bed is a good place for contemplation, dreams, and/or sleep. but yeah, i feel a dedicated space or corner just for meditation is the ideal way to go. It becomes its own cue and how you experience it is a good benchmark of where you're at.
Former meditation/devotion corner:
(for a while, this one, named ENEKUR would wriggle around, moving just a bit, like animated.)