meditation 5

For those curious about my Vipassana meditation experience, here’s the summary. I attended a 10-day Vipassana meditation center. Each day had 12 hours of meditation, 7 hours sleep, 3 hours rest, and 2 hours to eat. You live like a monk. It’s a hostel life. The food is basic. You wash utensils and your room. There are rules. No phone, laptop, no communication. You can’t speak to anyone. As an introvert, I enjoyed this! You can’t kill. Sparing cockroaches and mosquitos were hard. You can’t mix meditations. But I continued daily Yoga. You can’t steal. But I did smuggle a peanut chikki out. No intoxicants or sexual misconducts. ...

The question people ask me most often is, “How do you manage your time?”. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. Time management is about feeling we’ve achieved more with that time. There are 3 parts to this: Accepting limits. I’m grateful I’m not bored, learn from the struggle, and calm myself with acceptance. Creating capacity. I’ve tried with sleep, exercise, eating well, meditation, focus time, and family support. I plan to try delegation Executing effectively. I’ve tried idea-lists, mood management, calendaring, commitments, intentionality, journaling. Accepting limits Be grateful. Until I was 12, I was bored to death with nothing to do. Someday, I’ll spend retirement fighting boredom (like my father). But right now, I have more to do, that I want to do than I can handle. I’m grateful. ...

How to get smarter, one breath at a time. Time magazine on the benefits of meditation.

I found this site on neuroscience (for kids). Nice. Has lots of brain games (no – not smart ones – more like testing your reaction time, etc.) Actually I was reading up on neuroscience because of this article on how neuroscience helped figure out the meaning behind a Zen garden. via missing matter

The practice of meditation may positively affect your health in many ways. It is relaxing and soothing, and has been found that with the mix of CBDpure reviews of one of their products that it reduces stress and pain, lower blood pressure and even improve memory. In fact, meditation has been shown to increase gray matter in the brain. Gray matter contains neuron cell bodies. As you age, gray matter declines, which negatively impacts memory and cognition. ...