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Hello Francis,

I might be able to add my two cents regarding slouching: when I started doing sitting practice I encountered the same problem: my posture tended to fall into a slouch after only a few minutes of sitting, then I’d be occupied with correcting for that through the whole sit. What helped a lot with that was doing some exercises for my…[Read more]

Oh, thanks a lot!
How could I miss that. It’s right there.
Very cool. Thanks!

Edit: Edited, just to try out the editing function.
My life just became better 🙂

Hello Eli,

first of all: great that you’re here! Congrats on starting a meditation practice.
I might be mistaken, but training the mind appears to be the wisest thing homo sapiens sapiens can do.
So: keep at it, you’re totally in the right place and doing the right stuff!

Let’s see if I can be of some assistance here:

1. The issue with your…[Read more]

Hi bluelotus9,

I can not offer any scholarly opinion on the topic, but my personal experience tells me that no: compassion actually grows. As to why, here’s what I experienced:

Long before you start to experience the fact that whatever you think of as “You” is actually a construct of your brain evolved because it’s useful to think of yourself of…[Read more]

Hello again.
Haven’t found the article that I mentioned before, but stumbled onto another one on caffeine addiction:
Caffeine Use Disorder: A Comprehensive Review and Research Agenda
All the best

Thank you very much Ivan.
Orders are placed and books will be read 🙂

Greetings,
Florian

Hello dcurtis

Just ran into your post and wanted to reply affirmatively to you and Tony-James:
I observed the very same thing as you do.
A certain low amount of caffeine will have positive, energizing effects on me, but as soon as I consume too much it’ll ruin my day:
Anxiousness and irritability followed by feeling worn out and overly tired…[Read more]

Hi Alex and Maria,

ich lebe in Nürnberg.

Count me in.

Grüße
Florian

P.S.: gonna be offline for the next few days, but definitely interested.

Hi Eric,

thanks for pointing out the book.

Actually, I think something I read in the fifth Interlude (on the Mind System Model) about Metacognitive Introspective Awareness plays part in the concept I had when starting this thread (page 212):

“Metacognitive introspective awareness is not just awareness of individual thoughts, memories, and…[Read more]

Hi Tim, hi ward,

Thanks to both of you for taking the time to respond.

My question is not so much about meditation practice per se, I’m rather looking for a conceptual framework here.

(To give you a bit of background information about where I’m coming from with this question:
I’m working with TMI, and find myself in stage four – Mindwandering…[Read more]