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very helpful :eyeroll:
Aug. 27th, 2013 07:23 pmGot a mindfulness CD as pshrink homework. ... I do buddhist meditation, I was unconvinced it would be increased useful, but whatever. I just tried to listen. Thought it started very abruptly and without doing the basic awareness of breathing thing, but no, it turns out track 4 is actually the beginning. And then it says if you're going to continue to more advanced sitting meditations, just listen to the bell and then the next track. Only the next track is some kind of yoga stretching thing. Which I don't have space to do even if so inclined. And then somewhere in the middle of track 5 it just got stuck and stuttered a lot and now is just busted.
... yep, that's totally relaxing that is.
the basics of be aware of breath, be aware of body, be aware of thoughts arising, then just kind of sit there, that's basic meditation stuff. and the dude's voice kind of annoyed me, so, not so much a favourite.
I looked him up on the web and it reckoned he started with studying zen and then made these mindfulness CDs.
I don't know which CD this one is though so I can't go looking for a working copy. It's a CD-R and has no wrapper or useful words on the envelope. 'Mindfulness CD' is not very useful when all everything he does is mindfulness.
this pshrink stuff, all the weeks are like this. like, I can't decide if this is the For Beginners version, or if these are indeed all the available tools and I already studied them.
the other week was basically 'go to your happy place'. visualisation. my happy place is awesome, it's like the garden in B5 but with lotus blossoms all the way around. so I told the nice pshrink lady about my happy place and she looked through her notes for the day and looked through about six pages and yep, that was all the homework, already done.
all these pshrink things are all very well but they're just taking a break. then you have to come back and deal with actual reality. blah.
... yep, that's totally relaxing that is.
the basics of be aware of breath, be aware of body, be aware of thoughts arising, then just kind of sit there, that's basic meditation stuff. and the dude's voice kind of annoyed me, so, not so much a favourite.
I looked him up on the web and it reckoned he started with studying zen and then made these mindfulness CDs.
I don't know which CD this one is though so I can't go looking for a working copy. It's a CD-R and has no wrapper or useful words on the envelope. 'Mindfulness CD' is not very useful when all everything he does is mindfulness.
this pshrink stuff, all the weeks are like this. like, I can't decide if this is the For Beginners version, or if these are indeed all the available tools and I already studied them.
the other week was basically 'go to your happy place'. visualisation. my happy place is awesome, it's like the garden in B5 but with lotus blossoms all the way around. so I told the nice pshrink lady about my happy place and she looked through her notes for the day and looked through about six pages and yep, that was all the homework, already done.
all these pshrink things are all very well but they're just taking a break. then you have to come back and deal with actual reality. blah.