In this meditation path, we are interested in what is changing in our experience at the moment. In Unified Mindfulness we call this flow, in East Asian medicine and martial arts it is called qi / chi / ki, and in Buddhism it is called impermanence (pali: anicca). And in Taoism we see this idea in the relationship between yin and yang.
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Have you ever thought about why aeroplane food tastes so little? There are several reasons, but research shows that an important reason is that the noise from the plane drowns out the other senses. The fact that the plane also shakes helps to inhibit the sense of taste. Two senses overtake the third.
This strange phenomenon may seem insignificant, but it is an illustration of something essential. It is about our basic attention.
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Not many people had heard of mindfulness before the physician Jon Kabat-Zinn published his first study on meditation and chronic pain in 1982. This started an ever-growing snowball of research and analyzes that have given mindfulness and meditation the scientific weight it has today with over 6000 peer-reviewed studies.
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Here are some daily activities that are suitable for doing at the same time as we do micro-practices.
These are just a few examples of inspiration. Other activities and meditations can be as good or better.
(.. and all guided meditation in general ..)
There are many good reasons to use meditation apps to get started meditating.
However, if they are based on guided meditation, they can keep you from strengthening your attention skills in the best possible way.
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Here is something we all know, which we would like to see different:
The more we want something to be different, the more uncomfortable it becomes. The more resistance we have to the state of things, the more suffering we experience.
Is there any way we can help ourselves in such situations? Yes, it is. And a useful tool for this is the pain equation.
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Good sensory clarity is like standing on a mountain at noon, with good visibility and a view of all movements below and above you. Everything is unclouded, luminous, crystal clear.
That is, this is how sensory clarity appears in the sense of sight. But we can have clarity in all the senses and in all of our experience.
Sensory clarity is the ability to distinguish between the different parts of what we experience. We can also say that it is the ability to keep track of and explore the sensory experience in the moment.
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When we experience discomfort, there is often hidden resistance to the discomfort.
The easiest place to notice this is in the body. If you find that you are suffering from pain and resistance, try to see how much resistance you have to your experience. In such situations we often tighten the jaw, clench our fists or raise our shoulders. And maybe you discover tensions in places in the body you would not expect to find them.
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