I have been struggling with no desire to sit and meditate lately. I feel the world has sucked me back in! 😮 Last year at this time I needed a lot of solitude and meditation. It was just where I was with my healing journey.✨ I attended a 10 day silent Vipassana meditation retreat last April and I learned soo much from the experience. Mostly about myself. 🕊 The mind.💫 And my overall suffering beingconnected to my very own resistance to what is. 😗
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Here is what we were taught regarding how to actually do the meditation...(while sitting, closing your eyes and observing thoughts without judgement - gently guiding our attention back to simply noticing the breathe and later sensations in the body)...
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Maintain a calm and quiet mind. Remain equanamous, detached, alert and attentive. Balanced.
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Once we began to notice the 'subtle sensations' in our body, from head to toe, we were told to simply observe. Some sensations might not be very subtle at all. Some may be sharp or piercing. 😌 Simply allow and become aware was the approach.✨ This alone was super helpful as I had chronic neck pain from a previous injury (whiplash from car accident) and as I sat with the pain and allowed myself to really feel it, the resistance to it that my mind was creating on a daily basis subsided and the pain was initially reduced dramatically and eventually after 3 long days of this Vipassana meditation, I was pain free for the first time in years!💫🕊😁 It was truly incredible! 🙏 This wonderful transformation occurred after the old stock of 'Sankaras' came to the surface and were forever eradicated / dissolved. Each time we react to a body sensation a Sankara (sanskrit), a negative (or sometimes can be positive) attachment is formed.
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Vipassana ✨ meditation allows one to learn the art 💫 of maintaining total and profound equanimity - and therefore freedom from suffering. We learn that every sensation is temporary as is everything in life - and through simple observation we can be free!
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It's wild how we can know what is good for us and still resist it! What is your experience with this? Comment 👇🏾
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Here is what we were taught regarding how to actually do the meditation...(while sitting, closing your eyes and observing thoughts without judgement - gently guiding our attention back to simply noticing the breathe and later sensations in the body)...
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Maintain a calm and quiet mind. Remain equanamous, detached, alert and attentive. Balanced.
🌈
Once we began to notice the 'subtle sensations' in our body, from head to toe, we were told to simply observe. Some sensations might not be very subtle at all. Some may be sharp or piercing. 😌 Simply allow and become aware was the approach.✨ This alone was super helpful as I had chronic neck pain from a previous injury (whiplash from car accident) and as I sat with the pain and allowed myself to really feel it, the resistance to it that my mind was creating on a daily basis subsided and the pain was initially reduced dramatically and eventually after 3 long days of this Vipassana meditation, I was pain free for the first time in years!💫🕊😁 It was truly incredible! 🙏 This wonderful transformation occurred after the old stock of 'Sankaras' came to the surface and were forever eradicated / dissolved. Each time we react to a body sensation a Sankara (sanskrit), a negative (or sometimes can be positive) attachment is formed.
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Vipassana ✨ meditation allows one to learn the art 💫 of maintaining total and profound equanimity - and therefore freedom from suffering. We learn that every sensation is temporary as is everything in life - and through simple observation we can be free!
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It's wild how we can know what is good for us and still resist it! What is your experience with this? Comment 👇🏾
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