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do you meditate? (leminal.space)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by spiderwort@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's hard to find people who do. There isn't a meditation community here so I made one ( !meditation@leminal.space )

Meditation is pretty great.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of different ways to meditate, and things to meditate on. The most common is mindfulness and essentially boils down to observing and paying attention to everything your consiousness has available. Sounds, smells, sensations, etc. After a while your mind internally kinda shuts up, you get relaxed, stress levels drop, you notice things you hadn't before. Long term your telomeres get longer (bits of sacrifical DNA that protect your actual DNA). Anxiety drops, inflammation drops, depression drops, you end up more in control of your emations, more rational, better attention span, more self aware, less lonely somehow, improves sleep. And that's just what science has found so far

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

You can also meditate on other things, like some forms are based on focussing on love and positive feelings, manifesting them at will, feeling them strongly, essentially feeling your love for everyone.

You can also do things like explore your consciousness, like observing where thoughts come from, how they are formed, what the inside of your mind "looks like"