cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/17394234
Meditation
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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The last thing I need is to be left alone with just my thoughts.
Sounds like me when I was in a bad place. Do you need support?
Appreciate the offer, but I'm all good. It's more that my thoughts just race and leap from one subject to the next, and it gets extremely tiring to deal with if I don't have something to distract me.
It still sounds like its exhausting and debilitating.
It can be and my meds help with it but it will never fully stop and I've come to accept that.
Damn. I‘m sorry. Good luck to you buddy.
This is very old but it was a good pick-me-up to read someone having the exact same experience as me. Down to the fact that meds help, but don't fix it completely, and I've accepted that. Solidarity.
As other people are saying, that's the point of meditation.
I just started a book, The Art of Living, by Thich Nhat Hahn and he claims that most people don't choose to think their thoughts, thoughts just appear, just like the wind on a rainy day. You can't stop the wind from blowing and you can't stop thoughts from appearing.
The point of meditation is to learn not to 'think' the thoughts that appear.
By tue way I did try this for a year and while i do get the point of it I did not succeed yet.
I hope you're well though!
My brain does not work the way it should. My thoughts are generally something I am capable of controlling.
I think the point is to try and not be consumed by your thoughts. I get your point though.
Sounds like that is the first thing you should do. Also get help :)
No need for help. My thoughts just race 24/7 leaping from one subject to the next unless I have something to distract me from something.
That wont stop by ignoring them. But with practice, over time like building a muscle, meditation will quiet the mind.
Forget 90 minute sessions, you can meditate 1 minute, 2 minutes. No special setting or place required, anywhere comfortable and quiet. You can do this a few times a day, youll notice slight improvements in aa little as a week or so.