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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 18:06:42 No.16402305 View Reply Report Delete

Hi /adv/ !

I'd like to get into meditation. I'm a very anxious person in general and it's currently ruining both my mental and my physical health. I'd like it to help me find "inner peace" as some say or at least something to work with, but I don't know where to begin. Should I seek out the help of someone who already does it, what are some good books on the topic ? Maybe even downloadable ones ?

Thanks !

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:31:35 No.16402702 Report Delete

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Hi random person on the internet!

Yes, there are a lot of books, classes, tapes, instructional videos and teachers you could turn to in order to learn many excellent and fulfilling techniques for meditation. I would recommend perusing your local bookstore's Religion and Spitituality section, your local YMCA or other community center, your local community college, perhaps your church or temple if you are the religious sort - if not, that's fine too, meditation isn't just for the religious people, any more than cheese is just for the wine drinkers. Basically, you have a great deal of resources available, and I very much encourage you to take advantage of them in finding your own right way to meditate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:33:17 No.16402714 Report Delete

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Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner is the easiest and best intro IMO

for the best instruction, consider Vipassana or Tibetan Buddhism - they'll tell you exactly what you need to do

if you want to bypass the spiritual/religious mumbo jumbo, go for Soto Zen

just google Buddhist places in your area and show up during a meditation session

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:33:34 No.16402715 Report Delete

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>>16402702

As far as the basics go, I can offer some random advice there too, as a disembodied voice on an anonymous messageboard. Basically, the fundamental focus of meditation is to calm your mind and help you find that 'inner peace' you hear about on all those kung fu movies. In other words, to find a peaceful moment. Anything more than that, if anything, will come in irs own time - deep understanding of your self, mysteries of the cosmos, phenominal psychic powers, whatever. We're aiming for peace first.

So, first thing's first. Set aside a time, and a place. I recommend a quiet room, away from distractions - no TV, no common walkthroughs, no noisy traffic, whatever you can arrange. And for time, start off small - fifteen, thirty minutes. Enough time to feel you can accomplish something, but not so long you feel you're wasting time. Set this into your weekly schedule - say, two or three times a week to start. As you go on, maybe you will increase this, maybe not. It's on your terms.

Now, get comfortable. Set a timer. Play some soft music, or don't. Sit on the bed, on a chair, on the floor. Sit comfortable, bend your knees, fold your legs, leave them straight, whatever. Don't worry about the Lotus Position or putting your ankle in your ear, that's for later, and maybe not for you anyway. Me, I like to sit on the floor, one leg curled in, heel against my hip, other knee up, hands resting on it, chin on my hands. All about what's comfortable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:34:20 No.16402718 Report Delete

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>>16402702
what a useless post

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:35:09 No.16402721 Report Delete

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So now you're sitting there, and comfortable. So now, just close your eyes, and...think. Just let your mind go. Think about nothing. Think about everything. Think about why a square has four corners. Think about what lemons taste like. Think about the little things. Just relax, and think about nothing.

Eventually, once you get the hang of this, ease into the bigger things. Think about one thing. Take one problem, one little one, and look at it from all sides. Just think it through, no rush, no pressure. Let this be your time to think.

That's what meditation's all about.

Hope this helps!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:37:25 No.16402729 Report Delete

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>>16402718

Sorry it seemed thay way - was actually part of a longer post, but the comment field is too short, and I type far, far too much. The rest of the post is linked to it though, so hopefully that makes up for the apparent uselessness of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:43:38 No.16402755 Report Delete

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>>16402721
>Just let your mind go
Don't do it.
You're a anxious person to begin with, so your mind will be disrupted.

>think about nothing
Easier to say than done.

Try this simple meditation skill instead.
Body Checking.
Focus on "Feeling" your body from the toes to your head.
e.g.
Feel your lung, breathe in, breathe out.
Feel your heart, pounding strongly.
Feel your eye, how tired is it watching stuffs all day.
Feel your surrounding, hot?cold? hear bird noises? the fan? etc.
Your leg/hand's muscles, how tired they are for getting you through the day.

One simple body check can easily take you 10 to 20 minutes time to meditation.

You can even try doing this before you sleep, it doesn't matter if you fall sleep half way as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:54:36 No.16402803 Report Delete

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usually some begginer forms of meditation i've seen are:

1 - counting the breath
2 - following the breath

counting the breath is very simple and you can't go wrong

breath in, breath out (count 1)
breath in, breath out (count 2)
...
breath in, breath out (count 10)
now go back to 1 again and repeat

if you start thinking about something else and forget about counting, when you remember just go back again to counting

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:06:49 No.16402846 Report Delete

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