Can anyone with experience recommend this kind of meditation to build discipline? Stress relief and mindfulness are great but not really my goal. I want more focus and energy.
Try Qigong.
That Misery Called Meditation
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#63Does anyone else ever get the desire to throw off the shackles of this Western society, renounce their possessions and go live in a monastery somewhere?
I say drive for an hour or two, find some place with streaming water and some trees or just a huge green field, and take a day there.
A feature of meditation is that it is portable--you can do it virtually anywhere, anytime. Awareness and equanimity are the only ingredients required.
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#64Ten to twenty minutes of quiet meditation is a nice stress reliever but an hour or longer is just wasted time.
If you meditate on the correct things for an hour you might realise that actually it's your 50 hour-a-week job that is wasted time and taking a time-out to contemplate the bigger subjects is a far more useful pursuit.