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Ūruz said:
Sure; in European mythology the bull is a symbol of vitality, vigor, strength and masculinity. The Ūruz rune symbolizes lot's of things too, but among them some are good health, self–healing, determination, perseverance and change for the better.
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Nice! Then I must say you're doing a pretty good job at that, considering you're also an upper intermediate meditator! When I see that in your signature, I always get a bit impressed. How long do you meditate each day? In the terminology of the The Daily Meditation Challenge, I would be an "Occasional Meditator" as I don't meditate every day, though I meditate as often as I practically can. That is, every day when I'm home alone, I start the day with meditation for as long as I need, often one hour.
 
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Nice! Then I must say you're doing a pretty good job at that, considering you're also an upper intermediate meditator! When I see that in your signature, I always get a bit impressed. How long do you meditate each day? In the terminology of the The Daily Meditation Challenge, I would be an "Occasional Meditator" as I don't meditate every day, though I meditate as often as I practically can. That is, every day when I'm home alone, I start the day with meditation for as long as I need, often one hour.
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I've had periods where I've meditated for a hour a day and I had periods where I meditated for 5 minutes. I would say maybe 15 minutes is average for me. I guess as far as the challenge is concerned I am upper intermediate, but I've been slacking a lot lately and skipping a lot of days. But yesterday I meditated for about 20 minutes. Good job of often meditating for one hour, what kind of meditation you do?
 
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I've had periods where I've meditated for a hour a day and I had periods where I meditated for 5 minutes. I would say maybe 15 minutes is average for me. I guess as far as the challenge is concerned I am upper intermediate, but I've been slacking a lot lately and skipping a lot of days. But yesterday I meditated for about 20 minutes. Good job of often meditating for one hour, what kind of meditation you do?
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I began my meditation practise in January, where I meditated 45 days straight, between 40 minutes and 2 hours each day. At that time, I did concentration meditation and was forcing myself as much as I could to just stare on a point on the wall and also focus on my breathing. Then I read up on vipassana meditation, which is a kind of concentration meditation where you bring awareness to the things that brings you away from your concentration. What I liked with this was that the mind got much more relaxed - without forcing myself to not think about things, I brought my attention to the things that distracted me and accepted their existence. Then the thoughts would go away on their own.

Since I liked that kind of experience, I have taken it one step further: First, I'm quieting my senses, no light in the room with ear protectors on, sitting in a chair. Then I will let my mind go directly to the place where it wants to drift, may it be urges, may it be something else. I will spin on the thought until it ends by itself and then I will analyse why I wanted to think about this at all, what the outcome was and how the outcome reflected my initial urges, why it came to me and what the result was. I will analyse and bring my understanding to how my brain works and I will continue doing so until there is nothing left to understand. When my mind is completely empty from any urges to escape, I will finish my session with a few minutes of concentration meditation just to be sure. If nothing comes up, I am done.

What I've realised is that this kind of meditation helps me a lot with urges. When urges are just forced away, they usually come back at you and get stronger until you can't hold up your guard any longer. However, with this kind of meditation, I let them come to me and then I analyse why they are coming, I build up an understanding of the root cause of my behaviour and I am giving myself a chance to change.

That being said, I don't have a word for my meditation as I have invented it on my own :)

What about you, what kind of meditation do you do?
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? I will skip coffee today. I'm going to start the day with meditation and a short walk. Then I'm going to focus mostly on work and I'm going to make sure I am outside as much as I can.
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? I'm going to concentrate on work as much as I can, then have some exercise and sauna. I will also meditate some time during the day.
 
Force Majeure said:
I began my meditation practise in January, where I meditated 45 days straight, between 40 minutes and 2 hours each day. At that time, I did concentration meditation and was forcing myself as much as I could to just stare on a point on the wall and also focus on my breathing. Then I read up on vipassana meditation, which is a kind of concentration meditation where you bring awareness to the things that brings you away from your concentration. What I liked with this was that the mind got much more relaxed - without forcing myself to not think about things, I brought my attention to the things that distracted me and accepted their existence. Then the thoughts would go away on their own.

Since I liked that kind of experience, I have taken it one step further: First, I'm quieting my senses, no light in the room with ear protectors on, sitting in a chair. Then I will let my mind go directly to the place where it wants to drift, may it be urges, may it be something else. I will spin on the thought until it ends by itself and then I will analyse why I wanted to think about this at all, what the outcome was and how the outcome reflected my initial urges, why it came to me and what the result was. I will analyse and bring my understanding to how my brain works and I will continue doing so until there is nothing left to understand. When my mind is completely empty from any urges to escape, I will finish my session with a few minutes of concentration meditation just to be sure. If nothing comes up, I am done.

What I've realised is that this kind of meditation helps me a lot with urges. When urges are just forced away, they usually come back at you and get stronger until you can't hold up your guard any longer. However, with this kind of meditation, I let them come to me and then I analyse why they are coming, I build up an understanding of the root cause of my behaviour and I am giving myself a chance to change.

That being said, I don't have a word for my meditation as I have invented it on my own :)

What about you, what kind of meditation do you do?
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Interesting method, I don't think it's new though. I've heard Buddhists do something similar, that after meditating they will then start then contemplating the teachings and reflecting on things. And what you describe also sounds a lot like what addiction psychologists call Urge Surfing, which is a technique often used in conjunction with self–reflection also, during addictions treatments. I'm sure it's a very powerful technique.

For me, I also do some concentration meditation sometimes; I sit with eyes closed and focus on the sensation of air at my nostrils. But my main meditation is Vipassana, usually sitting but I sometimes do it while walking. I agree that Vipassana is more relaxing for the mind, concentration meditation sometimes almost stresses me out even more if I already feel stressed, so I can't always do it.
 
Ūruz said:
Interesting method, I don't think it's new though. I've heard Buddhists do something similar, that after meditating they will then start then contemplating the teachings and reflecting on things. And what you describe also sounds a lot like what addiction psychologists call Urge Surfing, which is a technique often used in conjunction with self–reflection also, during addictions treatments. I'm sure it's a very powerful technique.

For me, I also do some concentration meditation sometimes; I sit with eyes closed and focus on the sensation of air at my nostrils. But my main meditation is Vipassana, usually sitting but I sometimes do it while walking. I agree that Vipassana is more relaxing for the mind, concentration meditation sometimes almost stresses me out even more if I already feel stressed, so I can't always do it.
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Even though there are similarities, I think the description of Urge Surfing is more like Vipassana meditation, e.g. you bring awareness to what your mind is drifting away to, then you bring yourself back. The thing I am doing is more like exploiting the fact that you almost always feel regret after you've been acting out urges. I let the urges come to me, I will let them play out at their own will and then I feel the regret afterwards. When I feel the regret, I realise that I didn't want to do this at all and suddenly the wantness goes away. At this point, there is quite much to learn: I start asking myself questions, like why did the urges come to me at this point, why did I think about this and that etc... and I will get a bit wiser each time.
 
Force Majeure said:
Even though there are similarities, I think the description of Urge Surfing is more like Vipassana meditation, e.g. you bring awareness to what your mind is drifting away to, then you bring yourself back. The thing I am doing is more like exploiting the fact that you almost always feel regret after you've been acting out urges. I let the urges come to me, I will let them play out at their own will and then I feel the regret afterwards. When I feel the regret, I realise that I didn't want to do this at all and suddenly the wantness goes away. At this point, there is quite much to learn: I start asking myself questions, like why did the urges come to me at this point, why did I think about this and that etc... and I will get a bit wiser each time.
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Oh, ok, gotya! Well, it sounds like it is working really well for you, so keep at it friend!
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? I need get back some lost sleep. I also need to clean the kitchen, then I am mostly going to focus on work. A sauna would be nice, but I don't think I'll make it today.
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? I have no senses of frustration and I really don't want to escape reality as it's so damn fun to work right now. In any case, I had to work late yesterday and need some form of relaxation today, either some extra sleep or a long sauna with cold showers.
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? I don't feel any risk of escaping reality nor do I feel any urges. However, I'm constantly behind with sleep. Hopefully the weekend will fix that.
 
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What am I going to do today to avoid risk of escaping reality or feeling frustration? Family day today, everyone's at home. No risk of anything. However, best to be on the safe side so I am hereby signing up for a longer meditation session on Monday
 
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