Yes, brief sitting meditation and running meditation every day. There's evidence of physical and mental health benefits. It seems to help bring calmness, focus, and new ideas.
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#12I pray for the same reason the late C.S. Lewis prayed:
"I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m
helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all
the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God,
it changes me." - CS Lewis
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#13I tend to meditate for 4+ hours per day, while writing code. I start feeling mentally scattered if I miss more than a day or two.
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#1415-20 minutes of meditation before an important meeting or negotiation does wonders for me. I've experimented with an iOS app "Headspace" which was pretty decent, but the patter became a bit repetitive before my trial was over so didn't extend. I do like the Oprah/Deepak 21 day challenge guided meditation series.
I also tried my hands on Headspace but wasn't that happy about it. Are the Oprah/Deepak similarly guided?
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#15Keep me calm, focus, fearless, creative, more love to people around me. Im struggling to make free mobile app for helping people to do meditation by themselves or together. Any ideas?
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#16Keep me calm, focus, fearless, creative, more love to people around me. Im struggling to make free mobile app for helping people to do meditation by themselves or together. Any ideas?
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#17Keep me calm, focus, fearless, creative, more love to people around me. Im struggling to make free mobile app for helping people to do meditation by themselves or together. Any ideas?
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#18I pray for the same reason the late C.S. Lewis prayed: "I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God, it changes me." - CS Lewis I know it might tick some people off that I mention prayer in a thread about meditation, but I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want. All I ask is they respe…
Is praying (categorically) similar meditation though? I thought praying would be more equivalent to personal introspection time (ie. writing a journal/ diary, or just simply sit back and thinking about your day). It's definitely a great thing to be doing, but I didn't think it was quite the same as meditation.
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#19I pray for the same reason the late C.S. Lewis prayed: "I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God, it changes me." - CS Lewis I know it might tick some people off that I mention prayer in a thread about meditation, but I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want. All I ask is they respe…
Is praying (categorically) similar meditation though? I thought praying would be more equivalent to personal introspection time (ie. writing a journal/ diary, or just simply sit back and thinking about your day). It's definitely a great thing to be doing, but I didn't think it was quite the same as meditation.
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#20i do non secular meditation. each session takes around 10-15 minutes at regular time intervals; dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset, and night, which also serves as a tiny yoga exercise. i'm also obligated to eat something (a date or full meal) at each interval. these are what people refer to today as muslim prayers.
since i started doing this everyday, i became less addicted to work. after each exercise i look forward to the second, and my work is now divided into the time slots in between, rather than one shift of 8 to 5. the biggest psychological impact this had on me was that material matters don't matter to me anymore, and it made sort of a minimalist.