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Mimi M replied to the topic How do you optimize the split between meditation practices? in the forum Meditation 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Mohnish,
Sustainable and adaptable are really good terms for a flexible practice 🙂I do both group and individual mini-retreats. When we/I do them it is typically three one hour sits with 30 min walking meditations in between for a total of four hours. It is really nice to have folks doing the same thing so that you can discuss afterwards…[Read more]
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Mimi M‘s profile was updated 5 years, 5 months ago
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Mimi M replied to the topic How do you optimize the split between meditation practices? in the forum Meditation 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Mohnish,
I am happy to share my practice schedule with you.
I typically sit 2-3 hours each day divided between two to three sits and will do metta as one of them/TMI Stage for the others. Walking meditation is more difficult for me as there are not a lot of places to do them without running into someone I know(we live in a very populated area…[Read more]
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Mimi M replied to the topic New at Stage 4 and Have Questions in the forum Meditation 5 years, 9 months ago
Hi Ariel
Are you checking in to see if your peripheral awareness is vivid and that the object of your attention is clear?
If you still are not sure, try some of the antidotes for dullness to see if it makes a perceivable difference.
Meditating multiple times at different times of day can be really helpful in discerning, if you are dull, the…[Read more] -
Mimi M replied to the topic New at Stage 4 and Have Questions in the forum Meditation 5 years, 9 months ago
Hi Ariel,
I have had a lot of dullness in my practice and totally agree that it can be very difficult to detect sometimes. Some indications that may reflect subtle dullness are:1. You are just not sure:) This is possible a lack of clarity in the relationship between your peripheral awareness and attention. Clarity is the key word which would…[Read more]
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Mimi M replied to the topic Looking for some practice advice in the forum Meditation 5 years, 12 months ago
Hi Black Ghost,
I would recommend that you try some Yin Yoga to support your meditation practice. Because it produces high sensation in the body and clears out blocked energetic channels, it might help you feel more subtle sensations in the body when you are sitting.
It works primarily with connective tissue in the body which is pervasive….no…[Read more] -
Mimi M replied to the topic Ten stages of meditation when the meditation object is chanting instead of breat in the forum Meditation 6 years ago
Hi Sanjeev,
Let me know how it goes 🙂I do experience hearing like vision with a distinction between foreground and background. One of the first fruits of my meditation practice was that sounds that previously bothered me(like a heavy footed neighbor at 2am or a dog barking) do not bother me anymore and the reason is that I do not identify with…[Read more]
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Mimi M replied to the topic Ten stages of meditation when the meditation object is chanting instead of breat in the forum Meditation 6 years ago
Hi Sanjeev,
I will try to answer your questions based on my own experience using a mantra practice.1. How can one keep other sounds in peripheral awareness and the sound of the mantra in the field of attention?
This is very similar to the foreground/background of attention/peripheral awareness. You should have a larger percentage of your…[Read more]
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Mimi M replied to the topic Practices for going to sleep? in the forum Meditation 6 years, 1 month ago
Hi Becky,
I, too, am a novice and teacher in training 🙂I like a mantra practice to help calm the mind and facilitate falling asleep and also elongating exhales. Every once in a while I will wake up in the middle of the night and I find that my mantra just smooths out the wrinkles and I fall right back asleep. Essentially, my exhalations become…[Read more]
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Mimi M started the topic Diane Ackerman – School Prayer in the forum Inspirational Poems, Writings, Artwork etc. 6 years, 1 month ago
School Prayer
by Diane AckermanIn the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.In the name of the sun and its…[Read more]
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Mimi M changed their profile picture 6 years, 1 month ago