a few weeks in to reviving my #meditation practice, feels like front row tickets for a daily tour of personal discomforts and dormant grievances. ironically watching this dismal show buys me a little lightness throughout the day
I've been thinking about the power of visualization lately. It is great to have goals and dreams, but I think it's more likely you reach them if you can really visualize yourself the way you are working to be.
I have started meditating on these visualizations, and it has really started to motivate me.
@Beatlesandworms I try to do this too, and I have a vision board for my goals for the next few years. Just helps me focus on my dreams and the fact that they are attainable if I am strategic
"Stay curious!" Today I experimented with this prototype of a portable pocket shrine or lucky charm. The piece can be hung open on the wall or carried as a small bag, or even worn around the neck with a ribbon. Inspired by 19th century #Breverl, by art books, amulets, old meditation pictures, and cabinets of curiosities. Could there be people who buy such things? 🤔
@cohanf 🤣 It's rather weird to grow up in a centre of Baroque.
But these explain me a lot about animism. For us children, these corpses were like precious teddy bears: we talked to them. And I remember that we felt pity that they were closed up in an empty church and not in a library ... I was sure that they were utterly bored ... and perhaps got up in the night ... 😁
@NatureMC a very different relationship with history and with human remains! Growing up here, there weren't even old buildings! I did have a connection to the past through stone tools- arrow , spear points, scrapers etc from earlier indigenous inhabitants, that we would find in the fields! But I don't think I saw a single human bone! Now animal remains is another story!
Anyone have good resources for developing a sitting #meditation practice? I’m completely distracted by my posture while trying to breathe… but as someone with #ADHD I’m distracted by a lot of things. 😆
Trying to develop a practice that gets me out of my head and back into the here and now in my body, I’ve really been enjoying the resources from Plum Village https://plumvillage.org/
@sivy If I'm sitting in a chair while meditating I've found it helps if I focus on the contact that my feet have with the ground, and how that feels I can slowly work my thoughts up my body to each bit of contacts its making with the chair, or the breeze, or whatever is touching me. Everything says "focus on your breath" but that might not work for you.
@CarolynStirling Guided meditation focussing on the breath really works for me, especially as I feel the anxiety in my chest a lot. It’s good to breathe properly
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Why do we see very few people from minorities in #meditation circles? Is #zazen a white upper middle class-only activity?
I don’t think so. But because #capitalism makes life so hard for those minorities, they aren’t granted the chance to participate in those meditation sessions, as they have other, more urgent, things to struggle with in the first place.
Therefore, as a monk, vowing to liberate all sentient beings means to offer equal opportunities to everyone to practice #zen and this can’t be achieved under capitalism. Only an #anarchist society, where both #liberty and #equality are guaranteed, can allow that.
Heh, I keep thinking of that one demotivational poster that's a picture of a sinking ship and says something like "the purpose of your life may be to serve as a warning to others."
Too many don't survive. That's a big part of why I'm pursuing mental health work right now-- knowing what it's like and how this works, I can warn others of the traps and maybe help them cope.
This is the toxic nature of kyriarchy and capitalism. In order to survive, I had to stop listening to the messages the world is telling to people like me, and build on my own values.
Believing in equal rights means believing in the equal value of human lives. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and we all have important things to learn from each other. Segregating people by ranking them, pushing them into brutal competitions where some are entitled to live like kings and others are less than bugs, cultivates incredible brutality that gets taken for granted.
I keep remembering that quote from the cult documentary I watched the other day. There's the kids that get broken, and then there's the kids who graduate... "Succeeding" in this system often requires some heavy-duty moral failing that isn't recognized as such.
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