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Serious comment, not a joke. Although it seems like your body will automatically trigger a breath when the blood pH gets low enough. Otherwise we'd hear about phone users keeling over.
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How do I get started meditating? Any sources or books?
1. sit down somewhere, a relatively quiet and dark place is nice but you can do it wherever, maybe set a timer, maybe don't 2. close your eyes, pay attention to your breath 3. when thoughts appear in your mind, note them but attempt to keep your attention on your breath, not on your thoughts 4. when you notice that your thoughts have wandered away from your breath, congratulate yourself for noticing this, and go back…
- Go some place with no distractions.
- Lay down, and let your muscles go limp.
- Close your eyes, and just focus on your breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth, nice and slowly. I'd often hold at full breath for a few seconds just to let everything settle.. this is not a hurry.
- Focus on relaxing your toes, then your feet, ankles, calves, etc up through your chest, now focus on your arms... let all the stress run out your fingers like rays. Finally focus on your head, and push the stress out through the top of your head, or fingers, which ever feels easier. I'll also push stress through my toes too. The key is to release the stress from your body and visualize it... visualize getting rid of the knots and stress.
Some days, you'll get up to your calves, some days with practice you can get your whole body. But even your toes is an accomplishment!
- Your body will tell you when you are done. It is hard to explain, but you will know, "I'm done." When you are, don't rush to sit up, let your body rest a moment eyes closed, then open your eyes, wait a moment, then sit up. (if you were actually well relaxed this may stop a faint.)
But much of this comes from listening to your body. The noise of life isn't what matters... just listening to your body, and helping it relax....
I use relaxation, as a way to force other things out. So if work comes up, out it goes. Relaxation gives me a central focus, which helps with the whole experience.
One of the things you quickly discover when you start meditating is how deeply your breath is connected to your mind and body. You can literally detect a thought forming before it does simply by sensing subtle changes in your breathing. You'll also notice how the most trivial thoughts also have a physical manifestation in your body, e.g., mild tension in your eyelids, or a tingling in your abdomen, etc.
How do I get started meditating? Any sources or books?
Also, the "Waking Up" app, which has a fantastic collection of guided meditations, dharma talks, theory, etc.
"The Mind Illuminated" is a really good book too, with a very specific (and effective) technique taught in a lot of detail.
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You are driving in your lane when suddenly, another driver decides to change lanes right in front of you without signaling or signaling at the last moment. As a result, you are forced to brake or lose your space cushion.
I wonder why it's not a big deal where I live - whether it just doesn't happen to the same extend or such behaviour is more accepted. I know I wouldn't think twice about it if someone switched lanes and forced me to lightly brake. Having to slam on the brakes would be more noteworthy, but that rarely happens.
A maneuver that’s perfectly acceptable in NYC can earn you an angry honk in the suburbs. For better or worse, in large swaths of the US people are accustomed to having loads of space on the road and ample time to react to changes in traffic patterns.
New Yorkers would call other people lazy/inefficient drivers. Other people call New Yorkers crazy/aggressive drivers. YMMV.
I've never been more conscious of my breath while computing than when I was playing Subnautica[0], which proffers a (notoriously tense) game loop significantly involving running out of air and coming up for breath. Additionally, I would take swigs of water when my character was getting thirsty. A surprisingly embodied video game. 0. https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/
I've never been more conscious of my breath while computing than when I was playing Subnautica[0], which proffers a (notoriously tense) game loop significantly involving running out of air and coming up for breath. Additionally, I would take swigs of water when my character was getting thirsty. A surprisingly embodied video game. 0. https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/
When I was playing Subnautica for the first time, several years ago, I got immersed to the point that 1) I really felt like being underwater - my mind was recalling feelings from various swimming pool experiences; and 2) it changed my relationship with water. I found myself having a desire to swim, a kind of pull I don't think I experienced before. Didn't get that when I picked up Subnautica: Below Zero a few weeks a…
Guessing you mean "a few weeks later", right?
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When I was playing Subnautica for the first time, several years ago, I got immersed to the point that 1) I really felt like being underwater - my mind was recalling feelings from various swimming pool experiences; and 2) it changed my relationship with water. I found myself having a desire to swim, a kind of pull I don't think I experienced before. Didn't get that when I picked up Subnautica: Below Zero a few weeks a…
> "a few weeks above" Guessing you mean "a few weeks later", right?
Any musician knows that controlling the breath controls the sound that comes out, even for non wind instruments like violin and piano. This suggests the breath is a connection between our emotional state to the outside world.
I've been a piano player for more than 30 years. I'm not a pro by any means, but I perform regularly. I'm not saying I'm a great player, just that I have some experience with the instrument. I've never heard of the breath thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWDK5aUW4-Q&ab_channel=Maxim...
1. Wearing a sticker on the chest seems right out, but a fannypack/messenger-bag like device that fits under a shirt could work. Could also be a good addition to an overall mobile-monitoring setup for EEG data -- you could even move the batteries and bluetooth components from your head/belt to the square of your back. This would obviously only work over a shirt though, which seems like it would make getting high quality breath data harder.
2. I mean... dare I just ignore the physical sciences and aim a high quality camera at myself? To what extent is a microphone in your glasses + footage of your chest rising and falling enough? Sorta doubting anyone here has experience here but you never know!
3. I vaguely know that people measure things with lasers -- this could be enough for measuring breathing while seated at a desk perhaps! And surely the most accurate by far, disregarding noise from clothing.
If I ever get to this point, I look forward to trying all these before hitting up google scholar for the boring easy answer...