Magic Mind Meditation

[Imelda Matchett]

Jumpinginto a month of @magicmind and 10 min in and already feeling it. Kind of wild.

Will be paying attention to how long the positive effects last through the day (something I didn't make note of during my 3 dose trial)

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Its been 4 weeks since I started. It feels good man. Do it. I am using headspace for guiding me. 10 min a day is good for starting off. Now I can focus on what really matters and thats what mindfulness is.

in other news related to this podcast, I wanted to share a tidbit that I came to fully understand in my last meditation. tomorrow: never comes. literally it will never come and never has come. ever. that is all.

If you liked Momentum app you might also like Motivation by maccman. It replaces your new tab screen with a counter which shows your age in 9 decimals. (Note: this app is a bit disturbing to be honest)

1. Love the Headspace meditation app which I think a few of your guests have mentioned. It has taught me that acknowledging reality makes things better. Even acknowledging that I feel cold (in Minnesota) instead of fighting the feeling of being cold, makes it easier to handle the cold.

I try to meditate every morning before I head out the door, then I listen to the Tim Ferriss Show on the way to work. ? Vipassana, or mindfulness meditation while focusing on the breath has worked very well for me.

Tricky question: if you HAD to choose between being happy and being productive, which would you choose? Our culture is blinded by doing and productivity and thinks it will make us happy. It has never made anyone happy, even though it is temporarily pleasing, to be sure. Is the point of our life to be productive, or to be happy??

Recently met Josh Waitzkin when he came Wakesurfing on my boat in Long Beach NY. He mentioned I missed a chance to have you on the water with us. There is SO MUCH I would love to chat about, just thought I would plant a seed. Hopefully we get to connect this summer in Long Island!

As for the question of the day: I start my day around 2.5 hours before I need to get out and those hours are all about me. I have to start the day serving myself before I can be there for those around me. Usually, I start with a reflection while listening to some music. After that, I do some work for myself and I find that those are my most productive hours!

I have found that an important part of mindfulness is anticipation. Anticipating how your mind usually behaves in a situation before entering it really helps being mindful. More than if you try to be mindful after your emotions have already kicked in. I think we know ourselves better than we think and can anticipate our behavior as well. Whether we want to change or not is up to us.

This simple catching myself making excuses has been huge in my marriage, and especially parenting because as soon as the excuse cloud dissipates, the subconscious kicks in pretty quickly with solutions, most of which are simple and only hard because they involve very calm, yet forceful approaches.

For myself, I commute to work via train plus walking. During the walk, I will take a 4 sec inhale, hold the breath and count to 30, then slowly exhale for 15 secs, 3 reps in a row and it feels extremely euphoric and a weird warm fuzzy sensation throughout my entire body. Feels as if oxygen is reaching the entire nervous system.

i practice heartfulness meditation which i find a natural extension of mindfulness. I find that the techniques used in this practice creates a capacity in me to extended the condition acquired during morning meditation. With heartfulness meditation, i am now able to put my heart into what i do.

1. Sit comfortably with eyes closed. Be relaxed(you can get relaxed by imagining an energy entering your body from the toes and relaxing each part of your body as it moves up, give gentle commands(eg. my lower back is now fully relaxed) as you move your attention from one body part to other.

When you open your eyes remember you have laboured to acquire a condition; be it stillness, peace, raised awareness, etc. so dont throw it away by doing anything which will spoil this condition. Give yourself 5-10 minutes to allow this newly acquired condition to become one with you. dont leave your meditation place before that. Enjoy!!

yep, for the cold showers I go for the gradual onset. So go from luke warm to freezing cold slowly. I count to 30, then adjust the coldness slightly. Takes about 4-5 minutes to get to full on ice cold temp.

whoever owns that kitchen, is clearly well-off enough to do better than a plastic kettle!! Yuck!! Surely it is obvious what happens when you boil water inside plastic! The most toxic, disgusting, foul tasting chemical byproducts pollute your drinking water!! Yuck! Not to mention kind of defeats the purpose of gourmet coffee ground by hand and brewed in a special expensive machine, non?

hello, Im glad i read this blog its really helpful and worth reflecting. For now as an unemployed i kept myself busy through walking/jogging every morning it provides calmness in me and it makes me glow. also, i find my dogs being my happy pill whenever i feel melancholy. Life is tough! we just need to look in the brighther side always it maybe hard but its worth it..

I want to practice mindfulness meditation. in find it good because you will just stay at home. and the steps is just easy. you will just take a good seat, pay attention to the breath, and when your attention wanders, return.

I want to practice Mindfulness meditation. I find it very good for me because the steps are just easy and you can just stay at home.. You will just take a good seat, pay attention to the breath, and when your attention wanders, return..

Closed categories lead to more creative answers. If you give people too much freedom they give you pre-canned answers to alleviate cognitive load. Too much choice. And, a nebulous category may prime one to think nebulously.

For the sake of the small and specific, perhaps, they should expand and call it the TenMinuteJournal. Or, the 4-Hour Journal. Though that may lead to compliance issues and the mass extinction of trees.

Great podcast, as always. Among all the suggestions, I need to focus on meditating regularly. I need to make it a habit. I find that listening to high spirit music as the first thing in the morning puts me in an energetic mood for the day. Deep house and electro has zinc effect on me in the morning.

Another strategy: I stopped communicating or responding to people who give me nothing mentally or spiritually. I deactivated my old fb account and opened a new one only to follow my interests (including you ? ). Preserving your personal and mental space is essential for mindfulness or you get drown in the sea of bs.

Love these podcasts! I have recently begun a daily meditation practice using the calm app. I find the prompts on a guided meditation help my meandering mind come back to focus. I have noticed an increased ability to be nonreactive and focussed as a result. PS interviews I would love to hear include (but are not limited to) Nick Offerman (actor, writer, woodworker), Dr. Frederick Robert Carrick (functional neurologist), and Rachel Brice (kick ass belly dancer). I love your conversational interview style and have revisited several of the podcasts that were particular favorites. Thank you for making these!

I was in my first serious ten day long silent mindfulness meditation retreat with a hundred other people. We were supposed to be mindful of our breath and body sensations. The instructor explained what being mindful meant: complete awareness, without judgment, with acceptance, just observing. In spite of being surrounded by a big group of people, we were not supposed to engage in any communication, not even nonverbal, by avoiding any eye contact.

Then I had my second brush with humility. As I was looking within myself, I was faced with all my buried difficult emotions and self-doubts started surfacing, shattering my own over-confident self-image. For the next couple of days I found myself struggling with these feelings, along with the physical discomfort of sitting in the meditative pose for hours. The assistant had encouraged me to put the backrest away, adding to my struggle. Slowly I started noticing similar pain others in the group were going through.

Together we all went through three phases of learning, penetrating into the deep level of my belief system. While we were observing our breath and body sensations, we were told to pay particular attention to how sensations keep changing. This was supposed to teach us the message that:

Next morning, just as we were cleaning up our meditation hall before making a departure, I was very pleasantly surprised to mop the floors with a group of teenagers who were attending the retreat because they wanted to learn how to be even-minded and non-judgmental. There were hugs and goodbyes. I mused over how I had travelled from being judgmental and in pain towards being empathic and joyful.

Right after I left the retreat I had my epiphany. Practicing mindfulness meditations in a group is a special act. Mindfulness Meditation training is not only for getting insights into our own well-being and happiness alone, it also has the power of eventually creating a wonderfully supportive group.

3) Compassion: Mindfulness meditations typically include training on compassion. This primes our brain to wish to reduce the pain of others, either by taking some action to help or sometimes just by patiently being there.

So many magical words come to my mind when I think about meditating in a group: collaboration, support, cultivating goodness, experiencing the best in others, empathy, harmony with the surroundings, and tolerance for social behaviors. If you want to experience this magic in meditating with others, meditate with others. Join a group or create one!

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