We have to plan as though a version of the world intends to still be here in a few days time.
Meditation is hard. It looks like just sitting and staying still, but doing it properly is like doing training your body to run a marathon when it's used to sitting on the couch all day. It takes time, practice, and building up your endurance.
So right now, when you're sitting and breathing, what are you focusing on?
Your brain is a highly active organ that's constantly at work. It doesn't rest. It doesn't stop. When you sleep, you're not even doing anything and your brain still projects images that relate to things you're preoccupied to you.
When you're awake, there's even more stimuli. Your mind wanders. Even when you're still you probably 'hear' disjointed snippets of sounds and thoughts and conversations, things you've encountered over time.
Emptying your mind is the hardest part of meditation, and I'm just talking about your mind.
So, when you say you're focused on 'nothing,' are you sitting there thinking about the word nothing over and over again? Or the concept of nothing? Because I promise if you're hitting me up over this topic in the middle of the night you're not thinking about 'nothing.'
Be more aware and honest about what you're actually doing.
[ It takes her a little while to come to any kind of conclusion, here. To examine what she's done, what she's focused on. It does and doesn't help that Kylo gave her a way of thinking about what she's felt happen when she closes her eyes. ]
I guess
I get distracted by the people. I can feel little bits of what they're feeling, so I think about them, and then they're all I can think about.
Because they're loud and obnoxious because everyone is even louder and more obnoxious in their heads than outloud, if you can believe it.
Try focusing on just yourself. Your breathing. Just hone all your focus in on the act of taking air in and pushing it out and let everything and everyone else fall to the margins.
You try that for a while and see where it gets you.
If you're still struggling to shut them out after a week, I've got some other thoughts.]
['After a week' is Stephen being very optimistic indeed rather than assuming they're all going to die in the apocalypse.]
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Meditation is hard. It looks like just sitting and staying still, but doing it properly is like doing training your body to run a marathon when it's used to sitting on the couch all day. It takes time, practice, and building up your endurance.
So right now, when you're sitting and breathing, what are you focusing on?
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Your brain is a highly active organ that's constantly at work. It doesn't rest. It doesn't stop. When you sleep, you're not even doing anything and your brain still projects images that relate to things you're preoccupied to you.
When you're awake, there's even more stimuli. Your mind wanders. Even when you're still you probably 'hear' disjointed snippets of sounds and thoughts and conversations, things you've encountered over time.
Emptying your mind is the hardest part of meditation, and I'm just talking about your mind.
So, when you say you're focused on 'nothing,' are you sitting there thinking about the word nothing over and over again? Or the concept of nothing? Because I promise if you're hitting me up over this topic in the middle of the night you're not thinking about 'nothing.'
Be more aware and honest about what you're actually doing.
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I guess
I get distracted by the people. I can feel little bits of what they're feeling, so I think about them, and then they're all I can think about.
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Try focusing on just yourself. Your breathing. Just hone all your focus in on the act of taking air in and pushing it out and let everything and everyone else fall to the margins.
You try that for a while and see where it gets you.
If you're still struggling to shut them out after a week, I've got some other thoughts.]
['After a week' is Stephen being very optimistic indeed rather than assuming they're all going to die in the apocalypse.]