I’ve always been interested in meditating, and quite like it, but have never really had it click. Would you say that the ritual that you do for meditation helps solidify to your brain that you’re in the “process” of meditation in any way? Also, when you described the “opening of the hands” motion in your mind, is that a concrete thing (for lack of a better word) that you think, or more of a phase transition from the not-meditating state to the meditating state?
Would you say that the ritual that you do for meditation helps solidify to your brain that you’re in the “process” of meditation in any way?
I think so. Having a ritual around it helps with conditioning yourself that when you perform the ritual it’s time to meditate. As I think of it, the ritual creates the space in which meditation can arise.
Also, when you described the “opening of the hands” motion in your mind, is that a concrete thing (for lack of a better word) that you think, or more of a phase transition from the not-meditating state to the meditating state?
So it’s both a concrete thing I’m doing with my brain and something like a phase transition. Like, it both feels like a specific mental action that has a particular shape and feel to it, and it seems to precipitate a change into meditation away from regular patterns of thought. I don’t know that it’s of one type more than the other, but my guess, primed by this question, is that it’s something like a concrete activity that, given the right conditions, catalyzes me into meditation.
I’ve always been interested in meditating, and quite like it, but have never really had it click. Would you say that the ritual that you do for meditation helps solidify to your brain that you’re in the “process” of meditation in any way? Also, when you described the “opening of the hands” motion in your mind, is that a concrete thing (for lack of a better word) that you think, or more of a phase transition from the not-meditating state to the meditating state?
I think so. Having a ritual around it helps with conditioning yourself that when you perform the ritual it’s time to meditate. As I think of it, the ritual creates the space in which meditation can arise.
So it’s both a concrete thing I’m doing with my brain and something like a phase transition. Like, it both feels like a specific mental action that has a particular shape and feel to it, and it seems to precipitate a change into meditation away from regular patterns of thought. I don’t know that it’s of one type more than the other, but my guess, primed by this question, is that it’s something like a concrete activity that, given the right conditions, catalyzes me into meditation.