Focused breathing to create a meditative focus on only one thing 🙏
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For years I found it hard to get into meditation, struggling with just sitting and "thinking about nothing" 🤐 I misunderstood it's purpose and method; the only route I found into it was through being able to concentrate on something that appeals to my mind - technical mastery 🎓
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I was able to think so hard about the techniques you've seen in my videos that, for the most part, it cleared my mind of everything else 💭 Whenever it wandered to work, I had a very specific movement to pull it back to concentrating on.
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👾If you're the kind of neurotype that enjoys mastering very specific bodybuilding movements in order to feel a maximal contraction in a specific muscle 💪 then I'd recommend this technique as a gateway. It feels like you can never truly master breathing 💨
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🎧 In a brilliant podcast between Stephen Fry & Sam Harris, (DM📩 if you want the link to it) Fry talks about his concerns that "thinking about nothing" during meditation would turn him "bovine" and dull his mind 🐄
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It's a common misconception, but if you watch my last video 🎬 I discuss how the concentration required to tame the wild monkey, that is your conscious, has an incredibly important carry-over into the rest of your day 🤓 This is my version of how Harris explained it to him.
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I'm no meditation guru by any means 👳♂️heck I've only been doing it for about 18months, since I launched @joompa and I went from having a max 40hr week to an 80hr week...📚 but it's been extremely beneficial and so I'm sharing how I managed to get into it, my own way.
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There's no right or wrong, but I found listening to some eerie-voiced hippy irritating, and wasn't quite ready (to begin with) to "follow the light from my temples, down into my arsehole" 💡🍑 or "send love to the fuckface who rode the wrong way down my one-way road this morning 🛵 as I was pulling out and nearly made me spend a month dealing with manslaughter - it's not his fault he's an utter fucking ignoramous" 😑
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☝️There's nothing wrong with these methods, and I can work with them now... but they're fairly advanced techniques for certain minds in my opinion 🤷🏻♂️
