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meditation: your thoughts? :)
by DeusMauzzim 36 Replies latest jw friends
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PEC
Meditation gives me a headache.
Philip
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WTWizard
This is what the Tower calls meditation. What you are actually doing is thinking on the material, plugging it into reality and purging actual reality. This is supposed to make you think of the Watchtower Society as reality. It is a form of creating reality with your mind, which is totally impossible. (Especially when the "reality" is someone else's). Pure mysticism.
True meditation involves trying to clear your mind. You will not totally clear it, but you will (and can benefit from) clearing thoughts that are creating problems where none needed to exist. This might be a good tool to use to purge one's mind of Watchtower issues, especially when you are supposed to be at a meeting and feel guilty about missing it. Try true meditation at such times (not that daydreaming/creating reality with your mind s*** that they call meditation). Then, when they hound you about the meeting you missed, you can tell them that you were meditating.
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poppers
If you are getting a headache meditating then you are straining in some way, trying to make something happen. Meditation is an opening up and relaxing into the present moment just as it is. It is the dropping away of identification with thought and the seeing that you are that in which thought arises. It is seeing reality for what it is and not what the mind interprets it to be. It is the return to conscious recognition that You are consciousness itself. What could be more sublime than realizing what you actually are?
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reneeisorym
My idea of meditation is this:
I get so busy that I don't stop long enough to really sort out my feelings, goals, emotions ... And I end up worried or just stressed. Sometimes I end up stuffing my emotions into a box so much that if I don't stop to stort them out, they come out unexpectedly.
So I like to take an hour, sit in a quiet room strait up. And just think. Sometimes I end up crying when I think about the family I've lost. (its a good thing to get it out then than it hit me at work at some awkward time.) But that hasn't happened lately. I end up being greatful for life or end up with a plan of what I want to do with my life ... Its always a good thing.
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tijkmo
i'm still thinking about it
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JamesThomas
Cogy,
Yet again you present a clear and eloquent post. I really enjoy your warmly descriptive way with words that helps to bring clarity to what can be a very confusing subject for many.
And poppers, yet again, poetically points to the core of what it's all about.
j
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LisaRose
I try to meditate every day. It has been helpful with pain from fibromyalgia and also helps me keep focused. I laugh when I think how I avoiced this practice due to the Wachtowers stupid thinking.
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AlanF
I'll have to think about it for awhile.
AlanF