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i might say: you can try expanding your conception of what “counts as” meditation until it includes things you enjoy https://t.co/Sp5FGcItFU
meditation does not have to involve sitting down, you do not have to be still, you do not have to be quiet, you do not have to be alone, you do not have to be in a group, you do not have to be inside, you do not have to control your thoughts, you do not have to control anything
meditation can be exploring the complete space of possible internal and external actions available to you https://t.co/Yj92GvPlQz
all of this is shilling for @meditationstuff’s approach to meditation btw which i find enormously freeing compared to any other, more here: https://t.co/knyeSmGe0u
some people adopt a “no pain no gain” attitude towards meditation that makes it about forcing themselves to do uncomfortable things. when you do that you enshrine a worldview in which force is king, where the parts of you that can best dominate the others decide what to do
it does not have to be like that. with a sufficiently broad conception of meditation you can aim to apply almost no force in your practice. meditation is not homework and it is not like training a muscle. as mark says, “meditation is concrete problem-solving”
some people meditate out of self-hatred, because on some level it can become a socially acceptable form of suicide. it doesn’t have to be like that either. you can meditate your way towards becoming more alive than ever, not less
“The goal of the practice is to have a good life, in the most broad and ordinary sense, on your terms, in your words, in your frame, or in no frame.” https://t.co/gwcq8dmDTd
it’s catching on https://t.co/cKyhA0vo47