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Morphing Meditation

arfie
arfie
I have long used meditation as my primary med. This morning has me wondering if both meds lose effectiveness with time. My meditation mentors seemed divided on the notion. Some say that discipline is the goal that moving through memorized thoughts and motions puts them into a fall-back reliability which remain available when life has shocked you into a full stupor. Others say stream of consciousness helps you transform dysfunctions into the strengths nature designed them for.

Thoughts -borrowed or original? Experience?
arfie
arfie
Gardening, too, is on my list of stream of conscious meditations. Compost is especially symbolic for me, though. Turning trash into something valuable. Working the chunks and watching them degrade with time.

You oughta see me work a compost pile on Election Day...
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
My stream of conscious meditations involve water: streams/creeks/and Oceans/water trickling over tiny pebbles. I always dreamed of being an archeologist because, i even as a child loved the
Earth. At around 7yrs old I was crushing rock/stone/pebbles ... always
was fascinated with clay/soil/seed/rock/different layers : lime stone,....
Waterfalls/lakes/sand/ feel hot or warm sand between your toes All of
my life i have always ended up at places where there's nature around.
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
...........LOL. I got to get out more!!!!!
MillaSofia
MillaSofia
My meditations morph in that the place I go, the me I become becomes me now, here. A me I can grow and change from. It's not just meditation. It's a change in brain chemistry. I hook on and live it and be it, for as long as I can.
arfie
arfie
In Arfinese, stream of consciousness means letting your consciousness rule, Lilly. Go where it takes you. It is about building personal awareness.

Every Swami Beyondana on the internet has their own definition, though.

I get lots of volunteer foliage from potatoes, but have begun to think potatoes do not like Central Texas.
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
I am my true self..........I feel like myself ...when in the Element. I am aware of me, more lately. Have not been 'conscious' for ten years. lol
and when I 'ground' my self. I am very in touch of what is around me
I take over 15 bottles of meds/daily meds. some 4x day. Tooo much!
..been ill. ......and severe allergic reaxn to a med? - doc said med --?
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
Hey Arfie! when is Election day?!!
looney1
looney1
I find that my meditation practice is up and down, same as anything else but always believe it is having long term effects - if not immediate. I only did a 6 week course a few years ago but my meditation teacher told me that when unwanted memories arise during meditation, it is so that you can finally deal with them by accepting them and letting them go. Many of our childhood memories need to be put into a different context as adults. Is that what you mean by stream of consciousness? Not fighting your thoughts?
arfie
arfie
Gizzy,
My next election day will be whatever day I pull my head out of the compost factory.
arfie
arfie
Looney,
"Not fighting your thoughts" is one of the definitions I respect for stream of consciousness. Personally, I need to watchdog myself for the thought loops within that one, and that's okay. This style of meditation is largely how I learned to spot my thought loops.

When I add in a physical component, such as tai chi or gardening, it acquires a dimension that lets me move my thoughts toward a a focus within the stream. It somehow helps build personal faith in my own instincts.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
For me meditation opened doors for choices beyond the meditation pillow as well, as in a second career in hospital chaplaincy that really helped heal my PTSD by working in a high trauma level medical center. Helping others helped me. COULD NOT have gotten there without 5 years of meditation first, and couldn't have sorted out my own PTSD from that of patients' without meditation continuing. That's how it morphed for me, not losing potency because it led to action.
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