Comments on: Is meditation not for you? http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/ Abundance Through Transformational Consciousness Fri, 17 May 2013 04:28:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrea http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Andrea Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:25 +0000 http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=130#comment-876 Hi, A. Decker - welcome, and thanks for joining the discussion! Hi, A. Decker – welcome, and thanks for joining the discussion!

]]> By: A. Decker http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-872 A. Decker Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:22:00 +0000 http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=130#comment-872 Nice article. Good tips. Encouraging. I found it through Anmol Mehta's Carnival #8. I really like the dialogue that's followed as well and would agree, "What's underneath," is the most intriguing part. Nice article. Good tips. Encouraging. I found it through Anmol Mehta’s Carnival #8. I really like the dialogue that’s followed as well and would agree, “What’s underneath,” is the most intriguing part.

]]> By: Cherri http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-854 Cherri Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:48:20 +0000 http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=130#comment-854 I'm new at learning how to meditate. I've always wondered why I looked forward to naps and bedtime because when I sleep, my mind is quiet. When I'm awake, there is not a moment in the day that my mind isn't thinking, talking, anticipating, planning, or negoitating. I'm working on teaching my mind to be quiet. Thanks for the recommendations. Cherri I’m new at learning how to meditate. I’ve always wondered why I looked forward to naps and bedtime because when I sleep, my mind is quiet. When I’m awake, there is not a moment in the day that my mind isn’t thinking, talking, anticipating, planning, or negoitating. I’m working on teaching my mind to be quiet. Thanks for the recommendations.
Cherri

]]> By: Andrea http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Andrea Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:24:36 +0000 http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=130#comment-836 Liara - I agree, the first hurdle can be to relax in the face of discomfort! Tuan - I love your perspective, thank you for sharing those insights. Meditation is definitely whatever we decide before we sit down on our pillow. I also like the idea of "diving into the boredom" and making that the excitement. What's underneath there, right? Thank you for sharing! Blessings, Andrea Liara – I agree, the first hurdle can be to relax in the face of discomfort!

Tuan – I love your perspective, thank you for sharing those insights. Meditation is definitely whatever we decide before we sit down on our pillow. I also like the idea of “diving into the boredom” and making that the excitement. What’s underneath there, right?

Thank you for sharing!
Blessings,
Andrea

]]> By: Tuan http://www.empoweredsoul.com/2007/09/is-meditation-not-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Tuan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:35:21 +0000 http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=130#comment-834 Alan Watts describes mind is like a pond fills with ripples. We don’t put our hands on the water surface to calm the ripples, doing so we create more ripples. To quiet the pond let it be the ripples will die sooner or later. Neale Donald Walsch keeps mention that what resist persist and to quiet our thoughts don’t give it a second thought. My Spiritual Guide, keeps remind me to let my thought go freely and do not participate in the conversation. The conversation he means is the agreement and disagreement. Just leave the question with no answer. Sooner or later our thought will give up its dialog. Every time I engage in the conversation my body twitch as a reminder (if you sincerely ask your body to do that, it will perform it, like the internal alarm clock thing). If your thoughts are random and dream like, have fun with it but do not repeat the image or event and add things up to it. Meditation is quite easy if we do not think it is hard. Before we sit down and close our eyes, we have made up our mind that doing so is boring and it is hard to fight boredom. For me I give that action a challenge likes a game or a purpose, soon the boredom arrives, I revert it into excitement by dive into my boredom and get bore some more. When all of the things that I mention above become a routine that is when all the fun starts. Best wishes. Alan Watts describes mind is like a pond fills with ripples. We don’t put our hands on the water surface to calm the ripples, doing so we create more ripples. To quiet the pond let it be the ripples will die sooner or later.

Neale Donald Walsch keeps mention that what resist persist and to quiet our thoughts don’t give it a second thought.

My Spiritual Guide, keeps remind me to let my thought go freely and do not participate in the conversation. The conversation he means is the agreement and disagreement. Just leave the question with no answer. Sooner or later our thought will give up its dialog. Every time I engage in the conversation my body twitch as a reminder (if you sincerely ask your body to do that, it will perform it, like the internal alarm clock thing). If your thoughts are random and dream like, have fun with it but do not repeat the image or event and add things up to it.

Meditation is quite easy if we do not think it is hard. Before we sit down and close our eyes, we have made up our mind that doing so is boring and it is hard to fight boredom. For me I give that action a challenge likes a game or a purpose, soon the boredom arrives, I revert it into excitement by dive into my boredom and get bore some more.

When all of the things that I mention above become a routine that is when all the fun starts. Best wishes.

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