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 No.37027

Does anyone here practice meditation? What kind? I did a little mantra meditation (also called transcendental meditation) last night and I think it made me sleep better and also breath better for some reason. But I've read that doing it too much for a long period of time can numb your emotions and weaken your motivation. Is that true?

 No.37030

>Is that true?

No


 No.37040

Yeah, I do, but most people in the West have a completely erroneous idea of what entails meditation, while in the East practitioners are often limited by the correct but narrow ideas of a single local tradition. There is an initiation ritual that in my opinion everyone should do first, but it's not clear to me if most people are capable and it can kind of fuck with your life and turn it upside down. I experienced a type of metaphorical death by happenstance night before I learned of the initiation process. When I learned the secret there wasn't much to live for, so it was no harm in me experimenting with a life (or should I say ego?) already fallen to pieces. When you are successfully initiated, many secrets are unlocked and you can choose to go your own path where intuition becomes a practical teacher and gurus are not strictly necessary.


 No.37041

I do 10+ minutes of mindful meditation most days. Not for astral projection or whatever, but because it calms my mind, helps me think more clearly and purposefully, and reduces anxiety. Also because there's strong scientific evidence for it strengthening parts of the brain to do with willpower and self control.


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>>37027

Original link >https://www.cianiggers.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf

come to your own conclusions and see what opportunities lie ahead of you. The rest of it is on the site- use your brain


 No.37059

>>37040

Why do you need to go through an initiation ritual to meditate?

>>37041

I've tried mindfulness meditation but I feel like I'm just sitting there, breathing, and nothing is happening.


 No.37060

>>37059

It's not merely ritual but rather igniting a biological process most remain ignorant of. If someone initiates you by giving you a hint on how to start the process, it is possible to willfully engage it instead of waiting for yourself to accidentally discover it. This biological process causes one to move without conscious effort like breathing and to eventually spontaneously perform dancing yoga movements and poses. The entire practice of yoga almost certainly derives from it and any yoga based on conscious routine and willful control is a shallow imitation like being an actor instead of the character played by the actor.


 No.37067

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>>37059

>I've tried mindfulness meditation but I feel like I'm just sitting there, breathing, and nothing is happening.

>nothing is happening.

That's the idea. By the way, that's kind of like saying "I'm doing all this lifting and I don't see myself getting bigger, what gives?" Some helpful reading:

http://viewonbuddhism.org/meditation_theory.html


 No.37068

>>37059

If you expect for things to happen, nothing will happen; try listening to binureal beats too, I've experienced past lives doing that.




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