Amazing - after the super-deep meditation I lied down for a while, just enjoying the melting experience. It felt like the earth was sucking me in. It felt fantastic!
But I cannot stay in bed all day, I have things to do. So I am trying to get back to this planet. I list some of the things that I have learned recently and don´t want to forget:
1. From multitasking to monotasking. OK - so I am known to be a person who is never really present but always fiddling with my iPhone or tapping my macbook while people talk to me and there are real world issues to focus on. In the teleconference I listened to, I heard Sarah talk about how you should try to be present in whatever you do, totally engaging yourself in the things that are going on in your life right now. Here we go, Eckhart! You have told me this so many times and yet I haven´t listened.
So now I make a promise: no more multitasking! The phone can stay unnoticed - never mind the romance that is going on and the frenetic texting! I don´t have to be available for everybody all the time! I don´t need to check facebook in every 5 minutes!
2. Since my head is a pop corn pot of endless brainstorming, the meditation sessions sometimes get really crazy. I was thinking: what if I, each day, would do a special brainstilling session, to get those ideas out of my system? Here what I am thinking I should do:
I should listen to some short guided meditation video and then just relax, with a pen and post-its handy. Whenever an idea comes, I write it to a post-it and let it go. I would do this as long as the ideas keep coming. This would not me a meditation but an idea generation process called brainstilling. I am interested in this because I have recently learned from some brain researchers that you come up with ideas better when you are in stillness. I would like to develop this into a concept!
Have to ask Sarah about this.
I think this is OK for now. Have to go and do some Saturday-chores like cleaning and shopping and cooking. But I feel great after the great meditation I had. Cannot wait to do it again in the evening!!!!
But I cannot stay in bed all day, I have things to do. So I am trying to get back to this planet. I list some of the things that I have learned recently and don´t want to forget:
1. From multitasking to monotasking. OK - so I am known to be a person who is never really present but always fiddling with my iPhone or tapping my macbook while people talk to me and there are real world issues to focus on. In the teleconference I listened to, I heard Sarah talk about how you should try to be present in whatever you do, totally engaging yourself in the things that are going on in your life right now. Here we go, Eckhart! You have told me this so many times and yet I haven´t listened.
So now I make a promise: no more multitasking! The phone can stay unnoticed - never mind the romance that is going on and the frenetic texting! I don´t have to be available for everybody all the time! I don´t need to check facebook in every 5 minutes!
2. Since my head is a pop corn pot of endless brainstorming, the meditation sessions sometimes get really crazy. I was thinking: what if I, each day, would do a special brainstilling session, to get those ideas out of my system? Here what I am thinking I should do:
I should listen to some short guided meditation video and then just relax, with a pen and post-its handy. Whenever an idea comes, I write it to a post-it and let it go. I would do this as long as the ideas keep coming. This would not me a meditation but an idea generation process called brainstilling. I am interested in this because I have recently learned from some brain researchers that you come up with ideas better when you are in stillness. I would like to develop this into a concept!
Have to ask Sarah about this.
I think this is OK for now. Have to go and do some Saturday-chores like cleaning and shopping and cooking. But I feel great after the great meditation I had. Cannot wait to do it again in the evening!!!!
You could do the brainstilling but keep it seperate from your regular meditation practice!
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