Meditation, Mental Chatter, And A 7-Day Challenge - Who's In? ☼ September 2020 Round 2!

Seven day observe mental chatter challenge - Day 1

Location: Nylon lawn chair on deck.

Environment silent except for birds and other neighborhood noise.

Posture: Feet flat on floor, arms loosely on armrests. Eyes closed, chin down.

Time: 15 minutes.

Distractions:
External noise.
Thoughts on magic and the forum.
Thoughts on fighting the black dragon and binding it.
Thoughts on fate
Thoughts in getting checks every week above 500.
Thoughts on breathing.
A lot of thoughts.
Visualization grounding.
Visualization warding.

Breathing in SAT out NAM

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Sunday 4-15-2018
Breathing - Seven day observe mental chatter challenge - Day 2
Location: Nylon lawn chair on deck.
Environment silent except for riding mower, birds and other neighborhood noise.
Posture: Feet flat on floor, arms loosely on armrests. Eyes closed, chin down.
Time: 3:15 minutes.
Distractions:
Visualizing roots growing out of my feet and down into the ground, I see bugs and gnomes amd stuff, going deeper I go down further, experiencing water, fire, air amd earth until I am in bedrock.
Then comes circulation of energy inhalations up right leg, exhalations down left leg until it is natural.
I imagine a brighter green aura as I envision myself the color of a calm hulk.
The energy reverses, I have a realization now forgotten.
An exercise of breathing and grounding at the same time.
Breathing in silent out silent.

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Okay i’ll take this challenge, i will start it later wen i can.

It’s like you were taking dictation straight from my mind! :laughing:

Inspiring thread, though. 7 days of 30 minutes meditation each day finished as of yesterday! Now on to make it a month…

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I haven’t been writing it here so I’ll start over since I feel writing it out is extremely helpful in seeing and setting good patterns for one’s self.

I have been working with 3-5 mins at night before bed because it helps my sleep process along with working sleep aide medications out. This has really helped with the detox I guess you could call it.
Also 3 mins when I’m frustrated has been doing wonders :smile:

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Breathing - DONE -Seven day observe mental chatter challenge - Day 3, 4-16-2018
Location: Living room couch.
Environment noisy.
Posture: sitting on couch lotus position, Mudra Sign of the Inner Lion, arms loosely at sides. Eyes closed, chin down.
Time: 3:35 minutes.
Distractions:
TV volume, video game volume, microwave door slamming sounds, handed plate of chicken just as I woke out of the meditation.
Breathing in silent out silent.
DONE

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Meditation - Seven day observe mental chatter challenge - Day 4, 4-17-2018

Breathing meditation with thought awareness - DONE

Location: Living room.

Environment: Slightly noisy (pets, roommates, television, video game, dryer.

Posture: Sitting on living room sofa, feet flat on floor, back arched back, hands resting comfortably on legs/knees, eyes closed, chin down, nostril breathing. Classic godform position minus straight back posture.

Time: 5 minutes.

Distractions:
Awareness of several external noise
Thoughts on financial situation and hopes
Thoughts on forum
Awareness of/Thoughts on clothes in dryer
Awareness of/Thoughts on time
Thoughts on angels and demons

Breathing: in silent out silent.

DONE

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Breathing - DONE -Seven day observe mental chatter challenge - Day 5, 4-18-2018
Location: Outside deck lawn chair.
Environment: Slightly noisy.
Posture: Feet flat on floor, arms comfortable on armrests. Eyes closed. Chin up.
Time: 4 minutes.
Distractions:
Jobs.
The argument.
What I want to do vs what I’m good at.
Cannabis.
That would people will continue to consider me as a failure.
Breathing: in silent out silent.
DONE

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Sorry was late for this. Been meditating now for 4 weeks in a row, daily.
Breathing:DONE
Location: My living room.
Environment: Quiet house today,not much noises.
Posture: Semi-lotus.
Time: 1 hour.
Distractions: Own thoughts, body craving for attention.
Breathing: Focus on the breath and indigo light coming from the candle to third eye, repeating mantra Soham Akaal.
Notes: I have becoming more of an observer, I desire just to sit still and observe things inside and outside…

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Old thread, but I think I’ll try. If anything, maybe recording my sucking on a public forum will help me see what’s going wrong.

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I will join in too. :relaxed:

Twelve minute meditation video, starting now…

Edit:

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, bare feet on the floor
Timeslot - 12 minute video was too short! I slid right into an 18 minute video afterwards. 30 minutes total.
Environment - Husband and puppy napped through both of them - lucky me!
Notes - I am very grateful for headphones. Snoring was still a minor distraction. :slight_smile:

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Day 2

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, bare feet on the floor
Timeslot - 20 minutes.
Environment - Quiet and still.
Notes - I almost fell asleep. Maybe I did fall asleep just a little. That’s very rare for me during meditation. I must be awfully tired. :woman_shrugging:

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Day 3

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, bare feet on the floor
Timeslot - 20 minutes.
Environment - Quiet and still.
Notes - Nice meditation tonight!

Edit: Is today Day 3 or Day 4? lol

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Day 4

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, feet propped up
Timeslot - 6 minutes, Meditation from the video in the OP - “Simple Meditation to Inject Life with Magick”.
Environment - Chaotic, unfortunately. Puppy woke up and ran all around… I pretended like it wasn’t happening. But it was.
Notes - I really like this meditation video. I will try it again.

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Day 5

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, feet propped up
Timeslot - 6 minutes, Meditation from the video in the OP - “Simple Meditation to Inject Life with Magick”.
Environment - Quiet and still
Notes - Second time doing this meditation. It’s short, but I like it. Even more than the first time.

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Day 6

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, feet propped up
Timeslot - 6 minutes, Meditation from the video in the OP - “Simple Meditation to Inject Life with Magick”.
Environment - Quiet and still
Notes - Third time doing this meditation. I only had a few minutes after work to do my daily meditation before midnight. I got it in because of the shortness of this video. And yet, an excellent mediation!

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Day 7

Location - Living Room, sitting on couch, feet on the floor
Timeslot - The plan was a 20 minute meditation, but it was completely derailed at 12 minutes.
Environment - Quiet at first, then chaotic with the puppy jumping, biting, begging for attention. Oh well, it is what it is.
Notes - Yesterday was actually Day 7, but I missed it, and didn’t meditate. So I did it first thing this morning. Discovered that evenings are much better for me. It was a very nice meditation for the first 12 minutes.

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Day 1

Timeslot - 20 min

Location - room, sitting in chair.

Environment - daytime, ANNOYING neighbors doing stuff.

Notes - don’t know why but sometimes feel as if there are random spirits talking sometimes. It’s weird or is this just me? Also feel like my ears ring crazy at times.

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Bump & a title edit. :smiley:

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I’m in!

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