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Meditation · Jul 11 Does the length of the meditation matter? I am trying to understand if I should be sitting for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or an hour, or if it doesn't really matter how long I sit for

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Meditation · Jul 11 how would you say meditation has helped you in your everyday life? This is directed at beginners but also experienced meditators, really to anyone who has noticed changes in their lives that they relate to meditation. I want to know what those changes you notice are.

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Top Answer: What I have noticed is that I am more aware of my thoughts, and that I am lost in my thoughts. Getting lost in my thoughts has always been something that has consumed most of my day. The moment a story line would start, I would just get so deep into ...

Meditation · Jul 11 what good does Bringing your awareness back to the breath actually do? Guided meditations usually instructs you to bring your attention or awareness back to the breath when you notice you are thinking, but what good does that actually do? Why the breath specifically?

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Meditation · Jul 11 why do some meditation practices guide with eyes open? I heard there are some meditations that you meditate with your eyes open. What are the benefits of this compared to meditating with eyes closed?

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Top Answer: I have been told at a Tibetan Buddhist center that their practice is to meditate with their eyes open because the benefits are more easily transferred to your every day life. Since you are awake with your eyes open throughout the day, learning to med...

Meditation · Jul 11 How do you know if meditation is working for you? What are some of the signs that your meditation practice is actually working for you?

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How do you let go of thoughts while meditating?

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I am always told that meditation is meant to teach you how to let go of thoughts, and most guided meditations tell you to let go of thoughts, but what does this actually mean, and how do you actually do it?

Letting go of thoughts to me has always felt like a task to do while meditating, and that is not the point of the meditation or of letting go of thoughts.

Rather than it being a task and something you are actively doing, I think of it more as allowing the thoughts to pass. To not try to force them out, but to just let them be. In my mind, and it may just be me, but thinking "letting them go" always felt like its something I need to do, and that is adding another thought to your mind, the thought of needing to let the thoughts go. So instead, I see it as allowing them to go, letting them be what they are - passing thoughts.

I like the analogy of a flow of water in a river. Nothing is pulling and nothing is pushing. There is no force applied, and yet there is flow. This is how I try to see my thoughts while meditating, and in general in life. Just as they came with nothing pulling them in, that's how I should let them go, without anything pushing them out.