The Mind Illuminated

How to effectively use an anchor? — Hello everyone, I've struggled to come up with a proper title for this issue For context: I've started a meditation practice since almost 4 weeks, up to 35 minutes without any major discomfort and w…

I was in Barbados… Well actually it was Turks and Caicos but close enough! — I was in Barbados… Well actually it was Turks and Caicos but close enough I just came back from a 4 week long vacation in Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean. This was the 10th year in a row I have don…

My Experience as a Beginner — I was introduced to meditation as a teen, when I went through a productivity phase. Just starting university, was going through some stuff, and I wanted to find a "better" version of myself, whatever …

I would recommend reading a book called The Mind Illuminated, its a great guide for starting out and understanding how mind operates and what is actually happening. People think meditation is simple, …

Yeah, I think that's an extremely common problem for meditators. And I definitely see it here all the time. People try to intellectualize meditation when for most people trying to turn everything into…

Well supposedly there's at least 150 ways to mediate described in the Gita. I like the book the mind illuminated but also do nothing meditation. The goal of the first is to focus on your breath and wh…

That is thinking. When you sit down lots of thoughts typically bubble up from the void. It is very easy to get caught in a thought and go from one thought to another. There are forms of meditation w…

The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa (John Yates) is so good too. It breaks down the stages of meditation, describing what you experience in every stage and how to resolve it.

*The Mind Illuminated* is an excellent step-by-step guide for anyone serious about developing and maintaining a regular practice. It’s available as a [free pdf download](https://drive.google.com/file/…

I'm going to copy and paste the same overview I do regularly, because it applies regularly, because "meditation" is an often misused word. The summary recommendation from the below that I think you'…

The Mind Illuminated. Would have been the chapter on Stage 1 iirc

The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa. In Stage One page 57 “The most effective way to overcome both procrastination and resistance to practicing is just do it. Nothing works as quickly or effectively as d…

It sounds like you’re experiencing what we call dullness in meditation. This is expertly covered with detailed instructions for overcoming in The Mind Illuminated. Best of luck fellow traveler

Sounds like you have been doing „close following“ which is described in the book „the mind illuminated“ stage 7. There is a free pdf of the book online

As described in The Mind Illuminated. My inner monologue isn't as extreme is OP's but the peripheral awareness work does help with the music that starts playing once I get to a certain level of focus.

Book - the mind illuminated

Yes, working with awareness is very helpful. And interestingly, Culadasa later put even more emphasis on awareness than *The Mind Illuminated* does. The book defines mindfulness as the interaction of …

As an ADHD person, structure really helps learning to meditate. Check out the book The Mind Illuminated, it allows you to understand the aspects of ur mind, the skills you develop, and track progress…

I developed crippling OCD about 20 years ago. I struggled for a fair while to live normally. Firstly, your intuition re: "maybe this is the point" is correct, and I think it's important to outline t…

Have you read the Mind Illuminated?

For the lack of knowing anything about your history, I recommend reading about the first 2-4 stages in the book the Mind Illuminated. Here's the thing, some sits are just going to suck a lot more tha…

Meditation is a category as big as "sport" so it's kind of hard to talk about it in this way. For instance if you do tummo the goal is to generate sacred fire in your body to burn up obscurations and…

I've been into Stoicism probably since 2014 or so, by I was mainly listening to audiobooks, and it never stuck with me in a significant way. Around October last year, I started taking it seriously, d…

I recommend reading 'the Mind Illuminated' by John Yates/ Culadasa, ( not so perfect man but regardless wrote a perfect instruction manual on meditation) It tells you everything you need to know, addr…

I'm right now reading the mind illuminated stage one again to see what I'm doing wrong.