Category: Meditation
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How often should I meditate?
I got this question in response to my email yesterday about the meditation timer: “This might be a dumb question so feel free to roast me. Do you recommend any particular schedule for starting out? Every day? Once a week? Whatever you want? As often as possible?” To which I replied: “Once a day, idiot.” Meditation…
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Why Meditation Isn’t Helping You With Performance Anxiety
If you’re using meditation to help performance anxiety (or any other kind of social anxiety, for that matter ), you need to read this. You’re almost certainly doing it wrong. Consider the following assertions: Eliminating your anxiety is not necessary to solve your real problem. Eliminating your anxiety is not possible. Your real problem is not anxiety. Meditation…
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The Truth About Meditation Teachers
Meditation teachers aren’t as bad as piano teachers, but they can still be bad. Especially when they’re all about getting you to eliminate emotions, control emotions, eliminate thoughts, control thoughts. This is the opposite of what meditation should be. But, it’s what they do. Go figure. Control. The point of meditation is to teach you…
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My least favorite conversation about meditation
I'm into meditation. “Oh, I've heard of meditation. You mean like with crystals and shit?” No, no. Not that kind. But I see the confusion. I do the kind of meditation that's about radical acceptance of whatever's happening. “Oh, I see. So, you just sit back and relax?” No, but that's a common misunderstanding. Whatever's…
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If You Expect Meditation to Calm You Down, It’s No Wonder You’re Stressed Out
If Meditation is Boring, You’re Doing it Wrong Meditation is not difficult. Why do you even want to meditate? That’s what you should be asking yourself. If you don’t enjoy meditation, then yeah, it’s going to seem difficult. Anything that is sufficiently painful is going to feel difficult if you force yourself to do it…