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Add article on distractions and the tendency to drift towards sleep

Open Xe opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

  • 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
  • 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?

Xe avatar May 04 '19 21:05 Xe

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: enekur

(for a while, this one, named ENEKUR would wriggle around, moving just a bit, like animated.)

chromakei avatar May 07 '19 02:05 chromakei