Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
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Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
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Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#2One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is.
- Fed up with work, I need holidays.
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- Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#3One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is. - Fed up with work, I need holidays. #### - Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
I notice this too. I have to force at least some of my daily routine into my vacation or my stress levels start to climb. I'm a stress eater, so when I notice my calories shooting up to 140% of TDEE and beyond, I know I need to find a quiet room and write about 700-1000 words, my own form of meditation. Just a complete brain dump onto the paper, out of which some conclusions can flow, and then I'm good again.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#4One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is. - Fed up with work, I need holidays. #### - Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
I've noticed this too, some says it's a bad habit energy we've developed in our modern society, always running to the next thing, always looking to consume. It's as if there is a sense of uneasiness that comes along with stillness.
Maybe we need to relearn the art of doing nothing?
I've been out of full time work for a while (mostly voluntary due to travelling) and I can, after 6 months feel myself beginning to settle somewhat, The first week of lying on a tropical beach did feel a little bit like torture to be honest!
I do meditate, but without being in a meditation community or "sangha", it can be hard to stay at it for extended periods, especially while travelling.
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#5It is not clear from the article if the meditation group stopped meditating or not.
The headline conclusion only makes sense if nobody in the novice meditation group meditated after that week.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#6One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is. - Fed up with work, I need holidays. #### - Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
I don't know if I did it right or not. But I always end vacation as a "well, back to the grind." It isn't so much ready to be back, as afraid of how screwed up things already are. Why give them more time?
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#7I misread this as "medication" and was confused for a while.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#8Why are you meditating? Are you seeking presence, nirvana, the atman, whatever. Wasn't this a fad back in the 60s and 70s. Please pay $1000 for your mantra also.
You can't practice meditation. You can't practice being present. You are just present or you aren't.
If you are using meditation to destress, or for some end goal, it defeats the purpose of meditation, or at least what the concept is.
This is just some bandaid on a deeper issue, like maybe what you are doing for work.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#9One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is. - Fed up with work, I need holidays. #### - Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
I've noticed this too, some says it's a bad habit energy we've developed in our modern society, always running to the next thing, always looking to consume. It's as if there is a sense of uneasiness that comes along with stillness. Maybe we need to relearn the art of doing nothing? I've been out of full time work for a while (mostly voluntary due to travelling) and I can, after 6 months feel myself beginning to settl…
the consumption cycle is sustained because it benefits the powers that be. humans are insatiable, and as long as you are convinced that contentment requires "just one more thing," you will never be happy, you will always be hungry, and you will always want more. happiness isn't pleasure, because of hedonic adaption, pleasure eventually becomes boring and empty. happiness is contentment with what you have. it is escape from the pain-pleasure cycle. when you're content, you even avoid strong pleasure, because it disrupts your tranquility.
it's insane that young people of today believe that a good life requires living a big city, gourmet foods, craft beers, urban scavenger hunts etc. these are forms of leisure that were all but inaccessible to 95% of the world up until 200 years ago. so happiness didn't exist until today? staying in the cycle ensures that you'll be devoured by labor, until you get that "fuck you money." it's as if some guys "crushing it" really do believe that work will set them free, some day. it's just as said in "my dinner with andre":
> I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing that they’ve built—they’ve built their own prison—and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result they no longer have—having been lobotomized—the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or even to see it as a prison.
many techies are enormously proud of the addictive, attention-as-a-commodity prison they have built, that's kept people anxious and distracted and most assuredly unhappy. they're convinced that giving more of their labor is the answer; it is not.
Re: Regular meditation may be more beneficial than vacation
#10One thing that strikes me often with vacations of the average person is how much of a runaway it is. - Fed up with work, I need holidays. #### - Fed up with holidays, can't wait to get back to work.
I have never been fed up with holidays. Do you get bored without work?