Thread: Do you meditate?

Originally Posted by bassguy

I've been meditating more or less for 12 years now, but in the past 6 months I have gone at it much more seriously and consistently.

The consistency is such a key. Trying to set aside the same time day every day helps but the ego is always coming up with obstacles and distractions. This may seem totally un-Zen like but a couple of friends at work and I have done commit to sit challenges where we commit to sit every day for a month and we maintain meditation diaries and encourage each other.

I'm in the active meditation camp too, be it martial art or even honing razors.

"Before enlightenment chop wood & carry water, after enlightenment chop wood & carry water"

I usedto but like bruno I discovered I wasn't wired to have an empty head lol

Howeveer I ahve lost of problems to work through as I am a code monkey, so when i need to relax and melt away I pick one very specific small problem, trun off the lights turn off the phone and buzzer relax and just mull it over. hats my meditation, and it relaxes me.

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Originally Posted by Lazarus

Sorry to hear about your father but glad to hear he is doing as well as he is.

If you met my old man you would be amazed, he allways thinks positive no matter how bad things are. At 60 he fell 30 metres from a tree he was felling and totally smashed his ankle and leg.The bloke he was working with rushed over and asked if he was allright. His reply was "sure am I can still move my toes". At the hospital they they wanted to just amputate the leg it was that bad. He said "no way just fix it and I will walk out of here on my birthday" They said it was a waste of time but would try seeing as he insisted. Six months later he walked out well more like hobbled with a cane.Six months after that he threw the cane away .

What can I say, the guy,s a survivor, we won,t even talk about being run over by a tractor, the time his logging truck slid down a mountain side and wasn,t found until 3 days later,the time a bull crushed him against the cattle race and the list goes on, he is living testament as to the power of the mind and positive thinking. As for the cancer he reckons it could be worse , he could have alzhiemers.

Originally Posted by AussiePostie

If you met my old man you would be amazed, he allways thinks positive no matter how bad things are.

What a chapter of accidents and misfortune, good on your old man for coming through it.
I'd feel a bit nervous if I found he was booked on the same flight as me.

Originally Posted by welshwizard

What a chapter of accidents and misfortune, good on your old man for coming through it.
I'd feel a bit nervous if I found he was booked on the same flight as me.

Actually he did have a pilots licence when he was young.I can just remember going to air shows in his little cessna. Luckilly I have no plane stories to tell, well none I know about.

Originally Posted by AussiePostie

If you met my old man you would be amazed, he allways thinks positive no matter how bad things are. At 60 he fell 30 metres from a tree he was felling and totally smashed his ankle and leg.The bloke he was working with rushed over and asked if he was allright. His reply was "sure am I can still move my toes". At the hospital they they wanted to just amputate the leg it was that bad. He said "no way just fix it and I will walk out of here on my birthday" They said it was a waste of time but would try seeing as he insisted. Six months later he walked out well more like hobbled with a cane.Six months after that he threw the cane away .

What can I say, the guy,s a survivor, we won,t even talk about being run over by a tractor, the time his logging truck slid down a mountain side and wasn,t found until 3 days later,the time a bull crushed him against the cattle race and the list goes on, he is living testament as to the power of the mind and positive thinking. As for the cancer he reckons it could be worse , he could have alzhiemers.

Your father sounds like somebody I would love to meet. I would very much like to read more stories of his life and times. Perhaps you could give us one from time to time?

Originally Posted by Lazarus

Your father sounds like somebody I would love to meet. I would very much like to read more stories of his life and times. Perhaps you could give us one from time to time?

No worries, I will try to remember to post a liitle tale every so often.
We will call it The tales of "Ivan the terrible"

I do meditate on the weekends during trout season ( the last sat of april is opening day) The way i meditate is to troll one of my favorite flys around the lake at a very slow speed and sip on a nice cold brewski,WORKS FOR ME

I find myself using self-hypnosis more often than meditating. I suppose this could be a form of it, depends on your definition I suppose.