Comments on: Finding Clarity and Inner Stillness through Meditation http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/ Creativity, Clarity & Happiness Tue, 15 May 2012 16:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Inner Game http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-81358 Inner Game Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:48:37 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-81358 Thankyou for the reminder of just how incredible meditation can be. A few years ago, I was going through a period of serious mental unrest. Every time I'd try and get work done, my mind would race all over the shop. I was unproductive, restless, and bored with life! I kept looking outside myself for solutions and couldn't find anything. It wasn't till I realised that the reason that I couldn't find an external solution was because it wasn't an external problem that things changed. It's been a while since I meditated last. Definitely going to get back into it. Thankyou for the reminder of just how incredible meditation can be.

A few years ago, I was going through a period of serious mental unrest. Every time I’d try and get work done, my mind would race all over the shop. I was unproductive, restless, and bored with life!

I kept looking outside myself for solutions and couldn’t find anything. It wasn’t till I realised that the reason that I couldn’t find an external solution was because it wasn’t an external problem that things changed.

It’s been a while since I meditated last. Definitely going to get back into it.

]]> By: John http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-38792 John Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:53:51 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-38792 I recently returned from a ten day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat. I was amused to recall what I used to Think I knew about meditation. When people ask me about meditation now, of course I can list all the benefits you mention, but I always recommend that they find a class or a teacher because the techniques offered are not vague, "clear your mind" directions, but very specific and technical. With good reason. Also, there are pitfalls to meditation without proper guidance because the ego can really interfere with the benefits. It's not uncommon for new meditation students to get hooked on the "blissed' out sensations, and miss that the "goal" is non-attachment. The craving to go on having "good" feelings, and to avoid unpleasant ones, can disrupt meditation practice, lead to frustration and the abandonment of that practice. Some days it's bliss, some days it just sucks, but one is not better than the other.. there is no "good" or "bad" meditation. Some days noticing that it sucks is very productive. I was in the book reading part of the process for most of my thirties. Going to a retreat turns that intellectual process into a fully experiential one. Ten hours of sitting a day, for ten days is no great achievement, but the start of a lifetime practice. Find a teacher, when you're ready, put down the books and go for it! Thank you for listing many good resources on "Meditation 101". I know we're all working toward the same thing, and encouraging others seems to be becoming a bit of an obsession! I recently returned from a ten day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat. I was amused to recall what I used to Think I knew about meditation.
When people ask me about meditation now, of course I can list all the benefits you mention, but I always recommend that they find a class or a teacher because the techniques offered are not vague, “clear your mind” directions, but very specific and technical. With good reason.

Also, there are pitfalls to meditation without proper guidance because the ego can really interfere with the benefits. It’s not uncommon for new meditation students to get hooked on the “blissed’ out sensations, and miss that the “goal” is non-attachment. The craving to go on having “good” feelings, and to avoid unpleasant ones, can disrupt meditation practice, lead to frustration and the abandonment of that practice. Some days it’s bliss, some days it just sucks, but one is not better than the other.. there is no “good” or “bad” meditation. Some days noticing that it sucks is very productive.

I was in the book reading part of the process for most of my thirties. Going to a retreat turns that intellectual process into a fully experiential one. Ten hours of sitting a day, for ten days is no great achievement, but the start of a lifetime practice.

Find a teacher, when you’re ready, put down the books and go for it!

Thank you for listing many good resources on “Meditation 101″. I know we’re all working toward the same thing, and encouraging others seems to be becoming a bit of an obsession!

]]> By: abraham http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-37994 abraham Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:10:40 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-37994 I do meditate twice a day. Early morning and before going to bed, about 15 to 30 minites.I relax every part of my body.Breath slowly and deeply. I find abdominal breathing powerful.I did once experience a sense of wholeness , i was everything, I was just consciousness. fantastic feeling. I do meditate twice a day. Early morning and before going to bed, about 15 to 30 minites.I relax every part of my body.Breath slowly and deeply. I find abdominal breathing powerful.I did once experience a sense of wholeness , i was everything, I was just consciousness. fantastic feeling.

]]> By: photochicki http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-29648 photochicki Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:05:32 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-29648 i try to meditate regularly but lately i have become so clouded and stressed that it didn't even occur to me that the answer could lie in the stillness of the moment and not in the external world.. i was looking for answers on the outside and never realized that they all lie within me. namaste. alex i try to meditate regularly but lately i have become so clouded and stressed that it didn’t even occur to me that the answer could lie in the stillness of the moment and not in the external world.. i was looking for answers on the outside and never realized that they all lie within me.

namaste.
alex

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]]> By: JD http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-4955 JD Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:15:59 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-4955 I definitely need to study more on meditation because I have more questions than answers. That said, in my personal experience, I've noticed that I actually have to carve out think time to focus deeply on some of my best challenges. I know people say that when you meditate you should clear your mind, but my mind is usually clear to begin with (I've done a lot of inner engineering and I keep my head uncluttered through effective information management). I actual measure my mind by my ability to "turn it off" when I don't need to be "on." I definitely need to study more on meditation because I have more questions than answers.

That said, in my personal experience, I’ve noticed that I actually have to carve out think time to focus deeply on some of my best challenges. I know people say that when you meditate you should clear your mind, but my mind is usually clear to begin with (I’ve done a lot of inner engineering and I keep my head uncluttered through effective information management).

I actual measure my mind by my ability to “turn it off” when I don’t need to be “on.”

]]> By: Vitaliy http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/comment-page-1/#comment-3897 Vitaliy Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:06:45 +0000 http://thinksimplenow.com/calmness/finding-clarity-and-inner-stillness-through-meditation/#comment-3897 Thanks for the great post, I think I will take your 21 day challenge, it'll be fun. I really need to get myself to form some new habits. I have heard for a long time that in 21 days most things repeated will become a habit. It'd be very nice to spend 10 minutes/day for 21 days in meditation Thanks Thanks for the great post, I think I will take your 21 day challenge, it’ll be fun. I really need to get myself to form some new habits. I have heard for a long time that in 21 days most things repeated will become a habit.

It’d be very nice to spend 10 minutes/day for 21 days in meditation

Thanks

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