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Mindfulness really helped me in some tough spots. Helps you slow down, focus on your breathing and let some of the stress release. When I couldn't sleep, I would put my ear buds in and listen to a sleep meditation session. Rarely did I make it though the whole thing. It really works.

I was using an app called Insight Timer. It's a bunch of meditations uploaded that you can listen to for free.
 
Smiling Minds is something I started using, the company I work for provided us an HSA incentive if we completed 25 sessions in a year. That started my path a couple years ago.
 
Phills14 said:
Mindfulness really helped me in some tough spots. Helps you slow down, focus on your breathing and let some of the stress release. When I couldn't sleep, I would put my ear buds in and listen to a sleep meditation session. Rarely did I make it though the whole thing. It really works.

I was using an app called Insight Timer. It's a bunch of meditations uploaded that you can listen to for free.
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"Meditation doesn't make you sleepy, it peels back all of the thoughts and emotions that keep you awake. Now you can see how tired you actually are."
 
FiveThous said:
I dropped my heart rate significantly (20-30%) by doing meditations every day, even if it was just a couple minutes.
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I've been doing meditation regularly for the past 6 years. It's helped me grow my business and focus on tasks in ways that I just couldn't before.

When I was in Hawaii, I would spend at least 30 minutes, if not an hour, on the beach or somehow in nature. I got out of that in L.A. since, it's not as easy to do.. But will get back to it. I think nature, the woods, hunting, camping, surviving, is a great way to help both calm oneself and to slow life down, appreciate it, and get one's mind out of a rut.
 
gourimoko said:
I've been doing meditation regularly for the past 6 years. It's helped me grow my business and focus on tasks in ways that I just couldn't before.

When I was in Hawaii, I would spend at least 30 minutes, if not an hour, on the beach or somehow in nature. I got out of that in L.A. since, it's not as easy to do.. But will get back to it. I think nature, the woods, hunting, camping, surviving, is a great way to help both calm oneself and to slow life down, appreciate it, and get one's mind out of a rut.
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Humans aren't designed for concrete jungles.
 
My psychologist recommended I try meditating for anxiety. I still haven't gotten around to it, my mornings are busy and I don't want to do it at night because I see it as work. I'll have to try out headspace. Do some little 3 or 5 minute stints in the bathroom at work.
 
Like anything else, it takes time to make mindfulness a regular practice. And the intention of it should not be to see immediate results (i.e., feel relaxed). But if you're able to stick to a practice of 10+ minutes a day meditating, there will actually be changes in your neurochemistry. If you stick with it, you'll notice yourself becoming less reactive, and more intentional in how you respond to situations. And often times, even though it's not the end goal, you'll find yourself feeling less stressed and anxious.
 
Hydroponic3385 said:
Like anything else, it takes time to make mindfulness a regular practice. And the intention of it should not be to see immediate results (i.e., feel relaxed). But if you're able to stick to a practice of 10+ minutes a day meditating, there will actually be changes in your neurochemistry. If you stick with it, you'll notice yourself becoming less reactive, and more intentional in how you respond to situations. And often times, even though it's not the end goal, you'll find yourself feeling less stressed and anxious.
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The selling point for me was the fact that you do feel immediately better. Not to say it's a magic pill every time.
 
Kept hearing this "there is no self" concept. I finally "got" that tonight. It was just fucking trippy. It's an out of body experience inside your body. I've never felt like that in my entire life.

Basically thoughts and emotions are developments of our subconscious. They are a constructed representation/explanation of neurons transmitting information. So any time you feel something, those are constructed symbols placed upon neural activity.

Should help you dissociate from the feelings and thoughts a bit - which has lots of benefits, but that's another topix. Next, rather than letting the thought or emotion play out, just recognize that it's a thought or emotion. Abbreviate the emotion with a single word. Should detach even more. Let it play out if you can.

Now. You aren't your body. If you cut your arm off, you're no less you. We moreso associate ourselves with our mind. So our body definitely isn't us. It's just what your brain and mind are controlling. You're the space behind your eyes.

But this space is really just information passing and a constant running record of it. You don't write your thoughts, you don't make yourself feel emotions. They happen on their own. You don't control them. You don't say "I choose to have this thought." You could, but that isn't you thinking that. Your mind decided to do that all on its own. You're just watching it.

Essentially your body nor mind are your own. You are just watching everything play out - with your body and within your mind. You're viewing a movie over which you really have no control. It's really, really an odd feeling when you get there. Sort of Being John Malkovich-esque.
 
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David. said:
Kept hearing this "there is no self" concept. I finally "got" that tonight. It was just fucking trippy. It's an out of body experience inside your body. I've never felt like that in my entire life.

Basically thoughts and emotions are developments of our subconscious. They are a constructed representation/explanation of neurons transmitting information. So any time you feel something, those are constructed symbols placed upon neural activity.

Should help you dissociate from the feelings and thoughts a bit - which has lots of benefits, but that's another topix. Next, rather than letting the thought or emotion play out, just recognize that it's a thought or emotion. Abbreviate the emotion with a single word. Should detach even more. Let it play out if you can.

Now. You aren't your body. If you cut your arm off, you're no less you. We moreso associate ourselves with our mind. So our body definitely isn't us. It's just what your brain and mind are controlling. You're the space behind your eyes.

But this space is really just information passing and a constant running record of it. You don't write your thoughts, you don't make yourself feel emotions. They happen on their own. You don't control them. You don't say "I choose to have this thought." You could, but that isn't you thinking that. Your mind decided to do that all on its own. You're just watching it.

Essentially your body nor mind are your own. You are just watching everything play out - with your body and within your mind. You're viewing a movie over which you really have no control over. It's really, really an odd feeling when you get there. Sort of Being John Malkovich-esque.
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You have more control than you realize.....
 
I'm starting meditation and mindfulness this week, part of my treatment for anxiety. I'll keep y'all posted on how it goes. I always thought "why the fuck would I want to focus on my thoughts when the problem is I can't ever tune out all these spinning thoughts in my head"? My first extended session trying it, and I was able to find focus and calm.....and it did make me feel like I have a lot more control over my brain then I thought. Excited to start this daily.
 
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